What better featured during the present Olympic Games in Canada than a Toboggan bench by Canadian designer Kino Guérin?
Via Artful Home
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From the category archives:
bench
Yanko Design pointed me once more to Aïssa Logerot:
The project questions contemporary furniture design, from the concept of multipurpose use and uncertain quality (due to rationalized industrial production), to the ambition or desire for durability. Products are envisaged in a non-fixed state, to be extended or lengthened, according to uses which vary and evolve over time. Starting with assembly and a concern for eco-design, I rethought the idea of furniture in kit form, taking into account packaging, transportation, storage, mounting and dismantling by the user.
red dot award : design concept 2009
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Since there is a bench in the screen of my prior post, off course, I would like to know what bench and by whom:
Marie Caroline’s Bench by Spanish designer Mr Tom, who is based in Madrid.
Mr Tom says:
Marie Caroline “is a bench that takes as reference a world that is often obsolete and boring, those objects that we often find in our grandparents’ house
but doesn’t divulge much about the materials used. Anyway I don’t find the result boring at all!
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Clever! The Chairs to share by French designer Aïssa Logerot: Take two chairs, connect them with wooden planks and create a bench or a love seat.
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Into concrete a bit so another concrete bench:
Concept of a Concrete Water Bench by Nina Edwards Anker.
This concrete energy-efficient water bench is designed for public parks, cafes, outdoor train, ferry, bus stations and other waiting areas in extreme climates.
It is heated from the earth’s energy in cold climates through an underground pipe system. It is cooled in hot climates from pipes connecting to fresh water or to the existing urban water system.
This project explores digital fabrication of non-standard concrete formwork.
Via Nea.
About Nea
Nea was established in 2006 by Nina Edwards Anker and is based in in Grunneløke, Oslo, Norway.
Nina Edwards Anker was born and raised in New York City. She graduated with a Master in Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 2001 after having completed two years at the Architectural Association and a year at Sotheby’s in London. After a couple of years of teaching at Pratt and 4 years of experience in architectural firms in Manhattan and Oslo, Nina started nea studio in 2006. Since then, she has been living and working both in Oslo and in New York City.
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Cleaning up and talking of concrete…I had these photos of a Concrete Element Bench on my computer for ages. I pinched them somewhere from a German site, hence they are coined Sitz Beton, which means as much as concrete to sit on.
3,750 kg of concrete to sit on royally…
They are from …. Stizbeton.de
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On another tack: The Lutyens Bench. Everybody will immediately recognize this bench as The Lutyens Bench. Actually it is called the Thakeham Bench.
A granddaughter of Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944), Candia Lutyens, started Lutyens Furniture Limited in the UK
She writes about Lutyens:
Edwin Lutyens is often described as the greatest British architect of his age. …
.. That Lutyens was a designer of furniture is not well known. His designs, though numerous, were always produced in small quantities and for a specific effect that was always a complement to the whole. Sadly, almost no Lutyens’s interiors survive intact and many pieces of furniture have been lost. Thus it is that Lutyens’ furniture has never become part of the general consciousness, although on the merits of the designs alone it should rank with, and take its natural place alongside the furniture of all the ‘Twentieth Century Greats’. As with his architecture, Lutyens in his furniture designs makes specific reference to, and is influenced by, the substance and course of the great English tradition of furniture making.
Similarly too, the form, the style and the synergy all bear the stamp of his own individuality. Precise and intricate mathematical details lend an element of surprise and Lutyens’ well-renowned love of jokes and ‘visual puns’ is self-evident in many of the tricks he employs. The result is, like many of his buildings, absolutely controlled yet somehow astonishing – at first sight conventional, yet encompassing at a second glance both the whimsical and the paradoxical. In making Lutyens’ furniture to his own drawings, the task of Lutyens Furniture Limited was both unique and daunting in its application. Our responsibility to the designs dictated that our prime and overriding principle is that the quality of what we produce should be as high as is possible to achieve. We therefore go to considerable lengths to employ the best craftsmanship that is available, in using traditional methods of construction and upholstery, and to comply with Lutyens’ own tastes in terms of materials and timbers. As a result, we have total confidence that these pieces will continue for generations as furniture always used to and as it should.
Candia Lutyens via Lutyens Furniture Limited.
About the Thakeham Bench Candia writes:
The Thakeham seat pictured here in English Oak was designed for the garden at Little Thakeham near Storrington, West Sussex. The rhythmical symmetry of the bench is typical of Lutyens’s love of form. The bench has become an archetypal design in its own right and has sadly, for many, lost its association with Lutyens. It is made all over the world to varying degress of quality (absense thereof). There are no makers of this bench other than LFL that are authorised by the Lutyens family.
I believe it is a bit like aspirin. Aspirin originally was a brand name for a pill Bayer developed. Later on aspirin became a name for anti headache pills in it’s own right, whereupon Bayer lost its intellectual property rights.
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