We spotted OMA‘s new furniture line for Knoll, Tools for Life, a few weeks ago in Milan, but couldn’t quite figure out where the architecture firm’s radically customizable coffee tables and chairs would fit in. The ever-shifting and totally adjustable designs suggest a new kind of lifestyle and work environment—a challenge to the status quo of sitting …Continue Reading
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Party Trick Funiture: A Shape-Shifting Coffee Table Derived From A Mathematical Puzzle
These days, when we can just 3D-print any shape that comes to mind, basic geometry has lost a bit of its prestige. The squares, rectangles, and circles that ruled classicism remain but vague guiding lines for minimalist design, while curving, “organic” volumes continue to dazzle us. But design and architecture firm D*Haus has restored a …Continue Reading
Party Trick Funiture: A Shape-Shifting Coffee Table Derived From A Mathematical Puzzle
These days, when we can just 3D-print any shape that comes to mind, basic geometry has lost a bit of its prestige. The squares, rectangles, and circles that ruled classicism remain but vague guiding lines for minimalist design, while curving, “organic” volumes continue to dazzle us. But design and architecture firm D*Haus has restored a …Continue Reading
‘Puntada’ coffee table by Agustina Bottoni
Agustina Bottoni uses principles of geometry and stitching through pierced holes to create a strong structure supported by tension to hold up ‘Puntada’, a coffee table.
‘Drift’ coffee table by TJ O’Keefe (US)
American furniture and object design brand TJ O’Keefe’s Drift table combines a smooth, angled glass top with a base made of weatherworn boards.
‘Brogue’ table by Bethan Gray for G&T (UK)
Featuring a distinctive brogue detailing with a serrated edge, this elegant three-legged table was designed by a Welsh-born Bethan Gray. The piece is composed of a solid wood base, which is available in either oak or walnut, and a circular, top-grain leather tabletop in tan or white. Produced by a recently-launched G&T brand – a collaborative project [...]
‘Twist Stone’ table collection by Formstelle for Zeitraum (DE)
Munich-based design studio Formstelle have realised this collection of side and coffee tables for the German furniture brand Zeitraum. Developed in variety of woods such as oak, ash, American cherry, American walnut and European walnut, ‘Twist Stone’ series is characterised by simple, organically shaped, asymmetric tabletop which rests on delicate, inward-bent frame. More about the collection: [...]
‘Byobu’ table collection by Nendo for Moroso (IT)
Known for their minimalist, pared down aesthetics, Oki Sato’s much-acclaimed Tokyo-based practice Nendo has realised this collection of geometrical glass tables for the Italian manufacturer Moroso. Inspired, and named after the traditional Japanese screen, ‘Byobu’ comprises one circular and one rectangular model, each of which is composed of a translucent glass tabletop supported by an asymmetrical frame [...]