We’re looking forward to seeing DFC’s new line, about to be launched this August. DFC favorites include the Forest Series Stump Stools and the variety of vibrant trophy heads, all in hand-glazed ceramic. DFC is the NYC partnership of Tony Moxham and Mauricio Paniagua who moved to Mexico City in 2005 and now uses traditional Mexican techniques and influences in their very contemporary collections of glassware, ceramics, tableware and furniture. An important factor in the DFC manifesto is “the absence of minimalism”.
Barcelona studio Damaris & Marc combine high technology CNC cutting with eco-friendly materials and artisanal technique to produce eye-catching wooden products. Herald is a dramatic screen that incorporates the traditional heraldic lion, and Sabubu is a more modern life-sized magnetized blackboard. Shishi Gami is a wooden lamp that features felt accents available in different colours and Kodama is a series of modular shelves inspired by the Japanese spirits of the forest. These bookshelves marry a clean aesthetic with some fancy footwork.
+ FIVEten Studio's room divider offers seating, shelving and sculpture in one. (website under construction)
+ The UPA Project is a colourful new line of bags by Gabriela Gomes.
+ Designnobis presents a chair from the Eco-Seat series that can be assembled by plugging together the wooden parts, with the addition of rope instead of nails or adhesives. Do-it-yourself kits can be downloaded from their website.
+ Sean McDow specializes in furniture built out of recycled materials, like this table that incorporates a legally obtained Oklahoma railroad sign.
+ Using origami to design aerospace structures … how folding flat sheet or thin plate into 3-dimensional shapes that mimic organic patterns can be used in the design process. Thanks Greg!
"Make every inch in your home work harder!" and you won't have to buy a bigger one. That's both the stated and implicit premise of Convertible Houses, a book dedicated to illustrating the "principles of multipurpose living" with creative design, aggressive space planning and convertible devices. The book features 12 convertible projects in all, located in in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Toronto, Hong Kong, Brazil and more. The houses exemplify convertible living from foldaway kitchens to foldout offices, from swiveling walls to cantilevering lofts. Hardcover, 192 pages, well illustrated, $16.47 at Amazon.
+ Tham & Videgård Hansson Architect's Stockholm archipelago summer house @ The David Report, "With the small rooms located in the back, the rest of the house stands out as an open platform crisscrossed by sliding glass.".
+ Marcus Tremonto's electroluminescent Lightworks, "carefully composing forms creating a process that leaves each a unique example: some which pay homage to icons of modern design and are contextualized in a wholly inventive way" @ Dezeen.
+ Puma’s Urban Mobility travel gear incorporates bent ply! Via NOTCOT.
+ Fiasko design's Better View Curtains, "a black-out roll-up curtain with punched out lights holes that silhouette a city view.". Via Trendhunter and design*sponge.
+ Water Decor's touch-less Bridge faucets, a sensor "allows the use to rinse, operate and cleanse without ever touching the faucet". Via Behind the Curtains.
+ The Maginwulf SKETCHPET, a "contemporary notebook-concept for all the creative mobile people. The colored strap that holds the sheets together and allows opening them fan-like is the eye-catcher.". Via Yanko Design.
+ The Bugaboo Bee stroller with ventilated Breezy Sun Canopy at Daddytypes. Unless you live at the equator, this canopy makes a lot of sense.
Thick, textured oils are Allison Schulnik’s specialty, so thick that you can feel the beasts writhe on her canvas.
Work by Andreas Kocks leaps off the walls, but his paper Cannonball won’t get you wet.
Some would call it detention, but since 1965 Roman Opalka has been painting numbers in sequence, starting at 1.
Karin Kneffel’s oil paintings are luxurious visual accounts of interiors that are mirage-like…
and her watercolours, though just as densely coloured, are softer yet at the same time quite strong. SM
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