Things We Don’t Undertand And Are Definitely Not Going To Talk About
holy goddamn balls
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Archived entries for Dreamhouse
Know Arties: Rietveld’s Monster
British artist Ryan Gander invited 10 local schoolchildren to build whatever monster they wanted out of the parts that make up Rietveld’s famous 1934 Easy Chair (which, as it happens, is a thing that was designed out of milk crate parts so that anyone could build it out of scrap yet now retails for $3,200 by these people, just sayin’) to create the piece you see above, Rietveld’s Monster in 10 Parts. It was done for the exhibition Sameness & Difference at the Russian Club Gallery in London.
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“Room dividers” as a furniture type seem a little strange, right? Like, that category can basically include any vertical-ish group of craps. So there are no rules. And since there are no rules they’re hard to judge, which makes us uncomfortable because arbitrarily judging things is really what we do best. It’s like how the “no rules” nature of other people’s dreams makes them not interesting to hear about unless you’re in them. Or maybe I’m overthinking this. In any case, WHAPOW, look at this new thing by Mike and Maaike!
(See also: our 2010 ICFF coverage)
Trend Report: Piles of Chairs
I’ve started blogging for Metropolis magazine, y’all! My first trend report was just published. It is called: Piles of Chairs.
Those of you who went to Milan this year had a lot on your plates. You navigated the ever-expanding array of booths. You deduced which satellite events were skippable. You managed to get some interviews amid exhibitor-buyer talks that increasingly resembled Hungry Hungry Hippos. You even found your way back to the hotel, despite the trains shutting down before you finished your prosecco! And this was all before some volcano erupted!
With all of the distraction, you could be forgiven for overlooking a trend or two. Particularly this one. It’s the latest example of an obscure-but-intriguing furniture-design trope that I would hereby like to dub Piles of Chairs...
Metropolis is one of my favorite magazines and I’m delighted to contribute to their blog. You can read the whole piece here.
Dutch Person Things: I’d be mad too if my face were right there
Ok, I know we’re suckers for things with faces on them, but this new chair by Marcel Wanders for moooi is pretty goddamn amazing.
More pics after the jump.
Chair bold or chair bold italic?
When I imagine furniture inspired by typography, I imagine a lot of lower case h’s. Apparently, James Lavine is smarter than I am.
James made these chairs as part of his degree project, where he tried to connect the disciplines of furniture design and the art of crafting type. He says, “I want to design furniture while in a typographic state of mind.” I think these chairs look damn nice, and you can tell they’re inspired by type because he italicized one of them – classic.
I’d kill a man for an apartment in this building
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Attractive stick furniture: It IS possible!
Where I come from there’s something of a hysteria for crafty furniture made out of other things. You know, like things made out of antlers, or barrels, or logs. I say hysteria because owning these things normally makes you look like a crazy person.
HOWEVER. Greg Hatton might be proving me wrong here, because there is a 100% chance that I would buy this chandelier-thing he made. What’s next, world, attractive barrel furniture??
Oh wait, yes.
I’m having acrylic chairs and you can’t stop me
Okay, I know we just spent some time talking about how we should really make more of an effort to get away from “slick” things and their “edges” and “angles” and “lazerz” but IT’S MY BIRTHDAY SO HOLY BALLS LOOK AT THESE CHAIRS.
Sorry neck, that scarf is for butts now
Normally speaking, hammock chairs don’t turn my crank. This is because usually they look like this and fit somewhere between papasans and tuna helper on the things-that-remind-me-of-janky-first-apartments scale. Right? Right.
Be that as it may, it is still possible to create some pretty baller minihammocks. I know it’s true because of this thing Patricia Urquiola did for Moroso a while back. And now, presented for your consideration: this thing! Which is called the Hammock’s Hammock and is by Argentinian-American designer Maria Figueira. Now, it’s obviously got this nice cloth-vs.-angles thing going on, but what’s interesting here is that she whipped it up in seconds* with only the materials every designer-maker has lying around the house: some steel rod, some oxy-acetylene tanks, and a stolen pashmina. It’s like the furniture equivalent of a thanksgiving sandwich. Only without the bacteria. What what!
More pics after the jump!
*maybe, or days
