Yesterday was the opening for the Columbia University MFA Thesis exhibition at the Fisher Landau Center for Art in Long Island City. It was put together by über-curator Anthony Huberman and was totally worth the double subway ride. Check out our favorites above, or see it for yourself (through May 23rd).
Fisher Landau Center for Art
3827 30th Street
Long Island City, NY
My apartment is pretty small, which is probably why I’m a sucker for any furniture with multi functions. Jon O’Conner’s apartment also small, which inspired him to design this fantastic two-for-one Table Chair. Most of the time this piece pretends it’s just a regular coffee table, holding your fish tank, storing your magazines, books and small radios. But on special occasions – BAM! it turns into a chair. Best yet, it’s RTA, making it extra perfect for nomadic youngsters with small living spaces.
Someday, maybe I’ll have a table chair in my apartment . . . someday – Mike
See Also: O’Conner plays, ridiculously, with stool
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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
Love this nonsensical video of Jon O’Conner playing with a stool. Your instructions are to mute the audio and put on the Benny Hill theme when you watch it.
See also: Shrimp running on a treadmill
RISD student Conor Klein (who, as mentioned previously, has great legs) designed this deceptively minimal plug off of the behavior of leeches. Just as a leech simply drops from its host when it is full of blood, so too does this plug physically disconnect the attached electronic device when it is filled with electricity. A great solution for the vampire transformers that draw energy even when charging nothing.
More pics after the jump!
Last Friday was the opening of RISD Exposé, a pop-up store in downtown Providence that is dedicated toward current RISD students slinging their art and design work like there’s no tomorrow. Here are a few standouts from the show.
Like most people who went to crafty college, I’ve had some pretty scarring experiences with furniture made from PVC pipe. There usually seems to be a time around when someone gets their first apartment that they discover Home Depot, and realize that serviceable furniture can be made using off-the-rack PVC parts and their Tinker-Toy modularity. So they go ahead and build a few things – a coat rack here, a bookshelf there. It escalates. Finally, the thing they make collapses and breaks my TV. Then their utility checks are late.
Point is, there are always exceptions to rules. And, I gotta say, I’m kind of buying what this bench is selling. It is called the Rainpipe Bench and is from Lithuanian designer Vytautas Gecas. I don’t know anything else about it but I’m thinking about DIYing one for my yard.
Bonus: He also made this:
Boo-yah!
That, my friend, is actually an alarm clock.
Recent Eindhoven grads Mike Thompson and Shiro Inoue, apparently stricken with an affliction called “sleep inertia” (who isn’t?), have taken matters into their own hands and designed an enormous architectural alarm clock they call “Rise & Shine.”
Rise & Shine is comprised of a constellation of wake-up tools – including a special electronic window and scent fans – however my favorite is the “Dawn Horn.” This is basically a network of trumpets and tubes [trend!] that bring ambient sound from the outside environment into your home and focuses it at your head when it’s time to wake up. By opening the tubes slowly, an “intervention within the bedroom” is created – an ever-evolving environment that awakens you gently.
They depict birdsongs and so forth in their concept descriptions, which sounds lovely. Of course my particular Dawn Horn would be filled with recycling trucks and the neighbors’ reggaetón. Even so, it’s probably better than the iPhone quacking sound which my sleeping self has come to ignore.
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