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Good to see the boys and girls at Core 77 taking a leaf from our book and refusing to cow down and praise any new design just because the designer makes some absurd claim.
The Core 77 spleen could take more upon reading the words “space saving” in relation to a spice rack that wasn’t.
Well Done.
At now that the revolt has started its time to round up “environmentally friendly”, “green” “recycling” “innovative” and “neat”
Core 77 – we’re with you.
Filed under: Miscellaneous | Tags: Charles and Ray Eames, Design, furniture, designer furniture, Home, Eames, product, products, designers, office furniture, designer, Chair, kitchen, plywood, interior, myhouseismycastle, wood, interiors, wooden furniture, Contemporary Design, household, daylight design, hacking
With his observation that “The details are not the details. They make the design” Charles Eames not only succinctly derailed all those who believed – and sadly still believe – that if your design ain’t oh so clever it ain’t good; but he also established a golden rule by which new design should be measured and assessed.
He also, if somewhat unintentionally, confirmed that part of the job of a designer is to take existing products and improve them.
Not copy, but to analyse a product, question it’s function, and, if appropriate, make alterations to the design that either improve its existing function to a significant degree or bestow on it a new function.
And it is through such a process that design works at its best and its most efficient.
Sounds complicated – uit is however all about talent as San Francisco based Daylight Design prove so succinctly with their neat ikeahack.
Take a suitably stable and robust stool, saw a slit through it and Hey Presto! you have a stand for white boards.
You can still use your stool as a stool – but it also doubles its functionality without noticeably adding to your costs.
A new products created that both ooks great and functions beautifully.
Genius.
We’re certain Charles Eames would be impressed.
The original.....
Daylight designs "stool with slit"
A new design in use and working. Brilliant.
Many thanks for all the kind eMails and notes over the past couple of weeks.
Thankfully we are now fighting fit again and ready to return to the fray.
You know what, life without this arena really is tough … it’s good to be back.
And now, release those lions……
Nothing like not paying attention – our last post was post 100
OK the Cactus looks a little like a birthday cake…but one should really do something special on such an anniversary.
And so we have treated ourselves to a myhouseismycastle Twitter … http://twitter.com/myhousemycastle
It looks a bit bare at the moment, but will grow.
Much like a Cactus.
Filed under: Miscellaneous | Tags: Design, design vote, furniture, interiors, Kartell, LCP Chaise, Maarten Van Severen, the design vote
It’ almost certainly one of those sites that’s been around for ages, but we have only just discovered The Design Vote.
The concept is remarkably simple and even we managed to cast a few votes.
While the numbers of votes cast indicates that they get a little less traffic than google, it was very satisfying to see a couple of items that we hated, but which a lot of colleagues chose to promote, getting slammed by The Design Vote critics.
A little v.light fun, but also the chance to maybe find a few items you never knew about.
Todays subject is LCP Chaise by Maarten Van Severen from Kartell
LCP Chaise by Maarten Van Severen for Kartell
Filed under: Miscellaneous | Tags: Design, designer furniture, furniture, ikea, ikea hacker, interior, interior design, interiors
Thanks to the always entertaining “ikea hacker” for this useful reminder that just because you purchase your furniture at a mass market retailer, that doesn’t mean you can’t make something unique and original out of it.
Ikea hacker is full of that species of creatives with a lot of time on their hands and a Swedish furniture giant round the corner.
AleXX from Munich’s self styled coat hanger system is very much to our liking.
Nice one sir.
AleXX from Munich hacks the Swedes
Filed under: Miscellaneous, product | Tags: Vitra, Charles and Ray Eames, Design, Eames, plywood, loft, interior design, lofts, wood, loftlife, decorating, architecture, innen architecture
Loftlife Magazine have made an amazing discovery – “Plywood just got interesting” they announce.
Shame that Charles and Ray Eames are no longer amongst us or they could maybe have sold a couple of their previously uninteresting plywood chairs 
Joking aside the good folk at Loftlife are of course referring to the use of plywood as cladding and for structural elements rather than as furniture per se. And while we fully agree with the authors that when used properly plywood needn’t look cheap, we can’t help thinking that, in such an apartment, rather than wooden furniture one should experiment a little with some of the plastic chairs from Charles and Ray Eames.
A white DAW with ahorn legs, for example.
Regradless, check out the photos at LoftLife and decide for yourself.
(and thanks to design-milk for the tip)
Plywood as interior decor (Photo by Christine Besson and from loftlifemag.com)
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