Nomadic Furniture: Backpack of Parts Creates Portable Seat
A wooden seat that needs to wood, glue or screws, but focusing on traditional construction techniques, this design is about the craft-oriented journeyman and not a comfort-driven ...
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POD in Singapore: High-Class Hostel Meets Capsule Hotel
Full of small surprises, this minimalist modern urban retreat blends elements of a free-for-all hostel of bunk beds for college backpackers and high-end hotels catering to business ...
Tensile Table: Floating Wood Furniture Levitates via Magnets
Science meets luxury in this levitating coffee table composed of hovering blocks that seem to magically shift back into formation when applied pressure is removed. Like an over-sized ...
Beautifully Simple: School Bus Turned Minimal Mobile Home
You could make a strong case for this vehicle being barely recognizable as such. The dimensions, fenestration and over spatial configuration give good clues that this space may have once been a ...
Wooden Skyscraper: 34 Stories of Stick-Framed Architecture
If accepted and completed, this design would be the tallest wood-frame structure in the world. Counter-intuitive as it may seem, sustainable timber framing can be more eco-friendly than ...
Redefining Rustic Materials: 6 Modern Log Furniture Makers
Logs typically conjure images of remote cabins and plaid-clad workers felling trees. As these seven creative designers and craftspeople show, though, log furniture can be cool, clever and ...
Little & Local: Staircase Cinema & Sidewalk Library Projects
Public art used to be synonymous with huge and impersonal and location-agnostic sculptures made of metal and marble. Countering that classic Modernist trend are installations like this pair: a ...
Woodskin: Flexible Hybrid Material Makes Wood Modular
In essence, it has the look and feel of wood, but the flexibility of fabric, all rolled into one composite mesh that is durable but able to be molded into all kinds of creative patterns both ...
Laser-Cut Record: Music Etched Onto Slices of Wood
We already know what kind of music trees make when left to their own devices, and now we can make them sound the way we want. After developing a method for converting digital files into 3D ...
Offcut Cityscapes: Sketching Sculptures with Band Saws
An adept furniture maker is familiar with scrap - but this designer-and-artist has turned leftover materials into something just as fantastic as his normal finished projects. James ...
