Installation ::: SNITT

SNITT is a collaborative project between architects and designers from the UK and Norway. The name translates as section and the installation represents the intersection between a bench, a facade system and a graphic canvas. Constructed of acrylic sheets intersected by dark slats of MDF, the piece can interpreted as furniture or if perceived at a different scale can be seen as a facade.

Design team:
ctrl+n and KONTUR arkitektur + konstruksjon as (architects, NOR)
Tuyo designstudio (product / furniture design, NOR)
Kirstie Little (graphic design, UK)
Center Stage (stage and industrial design, NOR)

Death & Product Design

A BBC Documentary The Genius of Design programme episode "Blueprints of War."
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Beach Chair

Hexagonal Pewter Stool from Max Lamb on Vimeo.

A video of designer Max Lamb building his one-of-a-kind furniture using simple methods, made at his favorite childhood vacation spot.

Getier

Designed by Thomas Perz & Petrus Gartler, the bench gets its name for the animal-like features. Getier allows a diversity of interpretation, the solid chain is works both an anchor as well as a point of motion, creating multiple variation in their arrangements.

The Nefertiti Lounge by multidisciplinary design studio anOtherArchitect was designed as part of Furnex, the furniture exhibition in Cairo, Egypt. Made from wood, metal and upholstery, both seating and table, the sleek and feminine lines of the piece were inspired by the iconic images of the Queen of Egypt.

now Holl does it

Following our recent post on Furniture designed by Architects, Steven Holl has joined the ranks. This accomplished architect, and writer of such stellar works as Parallax, has recently completed a prototype bamboo bench called the Porosity Bench.

For more on Steven Holl and his love of well...all things porus

when architects design

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."

Mies van der Rohe, Time magazine, 18 February, 1957

The perception of architects are that we are most challenged by big projects, the bigger they are the greater the challenge. Ahh alas but the smaller projects can cause as much if not greater grief. Here is a visual taste of architects' attempt at furniture design.

The Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer

Easy chair by Frank Gehry

Chaise Lounge by Le Corbusier

Nomos table by Norman Foster

Aqua table by Zaha Hadid

West Seating by Amanda Levete/ Future Systems

Barcelona Couch (1929) designed by Mies van der Rohe

the Long Chair is a bench made from a continuous steel tube designed by Schemata Architects

MoCo Loco interviews Brion Design

orchids in bloom

The Orchid chair by Danish designer Christian Flindt