Lucas Maassen's Family Furniture

Family Furniture Did toys turn into furniture or did furniture turn into toys? And who is in the middle? The pieces of furniture are the main characters in this Tableau Vivant. A small change on the convention of chairs has granted them a life. T

Brad's Bizarre Furniture

Transrock

by campana brothers

additional text: Through design prototypes, limited editions and design-as-art objects, Limited Edition documents a growing phenomenon in contemporary furniture design. It is a book about designers who are making furniture objects outside of, and parallel to, the industrial manufacturing system. Limited Edition is illustrated with a rich selection of works that reflect the very best of this new area as well as new and behind the scenes images from some of its leading protagonists, including: Gaetano Pesce, Marc Newson, Maarten Baas, Tom Dixon, Studio Job, Zaha Hadid and Johanna Grawunder, together with an equally fascinating collection of newcomers and comparative unknowns. It gives us an intriguing insight into their latest work as well as their thoughts about the current state their profession. From over 40 interviews with key designers, manufacturers, gallerists, auctioneers and critics, the author Sophie Lovell has catalogued and compiled a unique and timely overview of one of the most exciting creative fields of our age. Limited Edition is beautifully packaged in a custom-layout and typography specially designed by the Australian graphic design team Rinzen.

Green Furniture

These collection garden furnitures are good selections if you tend to blend the seating with the surrounding. With green and leaves/grass textures, the Green Furnitures is a good way to pimp your garden. By: Uli

Auto-Cannibalistic Table Decomposes as Plants Grow

by Olivia Chen

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For the sake of sustainability, we normally hope that our furniture will last a long time in an effort to conserve resources and energy. Ate Atema of Atema Architecture, however, ponders whether this philosophy is truly the correct path to eco-enlightenment. With his Auto-Cannibalistic Table, which is intended to be a temporary object, he embraces sustainability in a less conventional way. The table was constructed with paper egg cartons and wheatpaste glue, which is made from flour and water, and then planted with herbs. The herbs can be picked as they grow, creating a place where food can both be eaten as well as grown–over time, however, the plants are intended to “eat away” at the table.

ivy chair

The Ivy Chair, a graceful armchair covered in white leaves is one graceful armchair that makes you feel like sitting on the soft leaves.

While living in the city where nature was excluded to the utmost limit, we tend to forget the fact that we depend on the power of nature and we do not remember it until natural disaster strikes. However, I believe that we should always appreciate nature and pay respect to it essentially.

White leaves seemed real which compose “ivy chair” express the metaphor of nature excluded in the city.

from h220430 Japanese design studio

Michel Bussien’s Growing Chair

Swiss designer Michel Bussien’s Growing Chair evokes pertinent ideas for the 21st century: nature trapped within the confines of man, manicured at his whim, or a specimen preserved behind glass – like fossils in a museum.

chair planter

Designed by Zhuo Wang, this chair has a pot incorporated into one of its rear legs. When the plant grows, it becomes one with the chair Maybe not so practical because I’d hate to kill a plant by sitting on it but it’s so pretty