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

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

incompletely beautiful

Dutch industrial designer Lucas Maassen has been working in conceptual design since 2003 and recently as an ideal father figure he decided to introduce his three sons to the value of work. For this reason, he has employed Thijme (9 years-old), Julian (7 years-old) and Maris (also 7 years-old) to hand paint the pine wood handmade furniture built in the factory on the occasion of his new project called "Furniture Factory". All of them are paid 1€ per piece as agreed in the official professional contract that they have signed with their father, but due to Dutch child labour laws, it is only possible for Thijme, Julian and Maris to work for 3 hours a week. So, the production speed has became a crucial factor in the process and the lack of time contributes to the general aesthetics of each LM&S incompletely beautiful furniture pieces.

 

 

 

PLANTABLE

London-based JAILmake Studio have created Plantable, a table designed to interact with nature.

"Plantable aims to take a domesticated object- taken away from nature, placed within glass and walls, and enable nature to claim it back once again. – The object discusses why we distance ourselves from the food and the processes that going into making it, the stuff that we put on our plate and consume everyday.

Each leg becomes a trellis to grow your own and inject a pocket of nature into our urban environment, we’ve tried and tested climbers, vines, tomatoes, grapes, herbs and sweet peas.

It is hand made in our workshops in South East London, where each leg is hand bent and fillet brazed into a steel framework. A hand made english oak top is then placed over it, for plenty to sit around."

This is Vitra's re-edition of the now legendary EamesDAR Armchair with its 'Eiffel Tower' leg base. The seat design was first presented as part of a New York Museum of Modern Art competition entitled "Low Cost Furniture Design". Their organically shaped plastic seat shells were combined with several base options and manufactured in their millions. 

The DAR stands for 'Dining Height Armchair' with a wire base. Thanks to advances in technology and materials the new edition is now made in polypropylene (the original DAR chair was made in fibreglass) which offers greater seat comfort and chrome plated tubular steel leg base.