9,5°

Behind this very simple piece of furniture art craft lies a long and complex process. The chair has drastically changed its characteristics several times along the way.
9,5° started out as an iconic chair. The icon was experimented on repeatedly to explore all aspects of something as simple as a chair, with the purpose of creating an entirely new chair. The ambition was to create an object in the borderland between art and design. Sculptural, yet functional.
The chair is tilted at 9,5 degrees. By tilting the chair and then elevating one end of the seat back to a straight angle, a triangle was created. This actually made the construction stronger and reduced the need for a stabilising cross rod.
In conclusion, it's not always wrong to be wrong. The deconstruction of the original design served a higher purpose.
In 2009, the interior architects behind the Knut Hamsun museum in Hamarøy, designed by Steven Holl, saw the chair in the "Nyttrom" interior magazine and decided to acquire 9,5° as the museum chair.
9,5° is part of Art with function – Design without.

Specifications
Designer/ Rasmus B. Fex
Year/ 2009
Material/ Ash
Product Size/ 45 x 40 x 85 cm
More info/ www.artwithfunctiondesignwithout.com // www.hamsunsenteret.no // www.stevenholl.com

Meeting Wendy

Wendy opened last weekend at the MoMA PS1 in New York. HWKN -Hollwich Kushner- are the architects who won this temporary pavillion competition that will last til the end of summer.

Spin Stool

Spin stool is the result of a collaboration between Steffan Holl  and Swedish company  Swedese. Spin is a stackable lightweight stool. The laminated veneer legs are bent in two directions and were  presented at the 2011 Stockholm Furniture Fair.
 

hybrid furniture

Hungarian textile designer kata monus has created an experimental storage piece in which soft material is organically integrated with wood in a way that it breaks free of the customary standards of furniture manufacturing. textile goes beyond its application and becomes an independent component of the object, connecting the two ashen elements as a knitted structure running through holes.

image © reka hegyhati

Everyday Architecture..

 ..through the eye of Victor Enrich.

" after years of working for customers who -hounded by the pressure of deadlines- ended up being pleased with something that I found minimally acceptable, I felt that my skills were being misused, and I wasn´t reaching my potential. I was just one link in a chain in which almost no one was aiming for beauty.Then I moved to art."

Personal extract of an Interview with Victor Enrich in MARK Magazine June/July 2012

Invisible bridge

Project Name: Moses Bridge
Architects: 
RO&AD architecten

Contributing architects: Ro Koster, Ad Kil, Martin van Overveld
Structural Engineer : Adviesbureau, Lüning
 Doetinchem, 
The Netherlands


Contractor:
 AVK-bv
, Oude Tonge, 
The Netherlands
Client:
 Municipality of Bergen op Zoom
Location: 
Halsteren, Municipality of Bergen op Zoom
, The Netherlands
Used Materials: 
Accoya Wood, 
Angelim Vermelho