Found Michetta – funky upholstered seating modules designed by Gaetano Pesce for Mer Italia at Design Conscious.
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Harry Allen Design designed the Pipeline seating system of four elements that can be connected to various combinations for Dune
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Not better way to start a new week of posts here than with the Letter Bench of Sam and Will Boex, two brothers who together run a studio in Cornwall, UK. The bench was commissioned as a thank you letter for a hospital by a satisfied patient.
The inscription reads:
I would like you to know what a wonderful job all the members of the staff on that ward are doing.
They were kind, polite and caring. No job was too much for them to make my stay on the ward as comfortable as possible
According to Sam and Will “The idea is to reassure new patients about the experience they will have during their stay.”
A bench as a thank you letter is a real poetic thought. Don’t you agree?
Via Boex / 3D Creative Solutions and see their blog Letter Bench.
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The Huge Sudeley Bench by Pablo Reinoso, especially commissioned for this amazing exhibition.
From the catalog:
As impressive in scale and ambition as its name suggests, Huge Sudeley Bench was commissioned especially for the Sotheby’s at Sudeley Castle exhibition. It represents the first time that Reinoso has worked on this monumental scale, overseeing a team of foundry technicians who employed hydraulic machinery to manipulate lengths of steel girder into exuberant and free flowing forms. Reinoso refers to this process as ‘breathing sculpture’, referencing the manner in which Calder adapted his mobiles while at the same time acknowledging its architectural properties. Commenting on his early training as a sculptor, Reinoso has stated his will to go beyond prescribed boundaries, ‘boundaries you need to know but you don’t need to respect’. Huge Sudeley Bench was created in three individual sections and treated with black autobody paint, a decision made to ensure that future generations could refresh its surfaces and appreciate the work in the pristine state it first left the foundry. It also sees the introduction of Reinoso’s new artist’s monogram which he intends to apply to all his future creations.
Sotheby’s has teamed up with London Based carpenters workshop gallery and organized an outdoor sales exposition in the magnificent garden of Sudeley Castle in the Cotswolds (UK). Many chairs and benches are featured until August 1, 2010.
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Sotheby’s has teamed up with London Based carpenters workshop gallery and organized an outdoor sales exposition in the magnificent garden of Sudeley Castle in the Cotswolds (UK). Many chairs and benches are featured until August 1, 2010. Stay tuned!
Pablo Reinoso’s Spaghetti Corten is used for one of the exhibition’s banners.
Born in 1955 in Buenos Aires, Pablo Reinoso has lived and worked in Paris since the late 1970s, establishing a successful career as a Product Designer with a broad repertoire that includes furniture, lighting and jewellery design. His portfolio features numerous design projects for the packaging of luxury consumer goods, including perfume, cosmetics, wines and spirits. Reinoso’s commercial practice has developed in harmony with his artistic œuvre;. he began producing innovative and playful furniture designs in the 90s and has since become renowned for his dramatic re-interpretations of ubiquitous and often overlooked objects. The breathtakingly eloquent Spaghetti series focuses on the humble public bench, transforming its rigidly parallel wooden slats into a network of meandering tendrils. Spaghetti Corten., exhibited for the first time at Sudeley, is a new variation on this iconic theme with adjoining sections of teak and Cor-Ten steel. In this work organic and fabricated materials exist in a symbiotic relationship, inviting contrasts between their variable textures and surface patination.
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Found this ec-O Bench concept on Steven Ma’s hard to read (too small white font on a black background) Blog Xuberance. The bench is multi functional as it has built in sun energy and water collection to keep the plants growing.
About Steven Ma
Steven Ma is teaching architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, die Angewandte. He is the assistant professor for the Urban Strategies, Postgraduate program “Excessive”. He has worked as a project designer for Xefirotarch in Los Angeles. He is currently working as a junior design architect for Coop-himmelb(L)au in Vienna.
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Recently USA, Kalamazoo, MI based Landscape Forms has introduced its striking Metro40 line of city furniture designed by or in cooperation with BMW Group DesignworksUSA. The Benches come in aluminum or aluminum with wood, with or without back. I like them with back better. Curious how they will withstand wear and tear.
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Piano Bench Maria Van De Velde by Henry Van De Velde
I love the cleanness lines, the elegance of the black and the architectural form of this Piano Bench. Learn more about the great architect, designer, and teacher Henry Van De Velde through Henry Van De Velde Foundation.
Like the tea table or occasional table Curt Herrmann, this piano bench dates from 1902. It was verifiably commissioned for the music-room in the flat kept by Karl Ernst Osthaus in the Folkwang Museum he founded in Hagen. Delivered to the drawing-room of Zeemeeuw House in Scheveningen at almost the same time, these first two exemplars were made at Lösse, Carpenters and Joiners, in Hagen and first by Scheidemantel in Weimar.
Henry van de Velde’s exclusive clientele viewed itself as a cultural elite and this status consciousness was not least reflected in the commissions given to the Belgian designer. This was a circle in which literary and artistic interests reigned supreme and both classical and modern music were cultivated. Even though van de Velde’s new designs for sculptural concert grand pianos (for Karl Ernst Osthaus and the Weimar Nietzsche Archives) were not so successful, the piano bench was ordered by several clients.
Henry van de Velde together with family - house 'Hohe Pappeln', 1912 in Weimar
Helene von Nostitz and Sophie Herrmann, to name two of them, were gifted pianists and so was Maria van de Velde, who before her marriage had wanted to become a concert pianist.
The 1902 piano bench attests particularly eloquently to the artist’s fresh start at Weimar. The fluid ornamental line of the early work he did in Brussels and Berlin has yielded to a dynamic created solely by the tensions of tectonic construction. Van de Velde’s artistic creed, Line is power is echoed eloquently in the harmonious design of this felicitous piece of furniture.
It was made in various natural woods and hardwoods as well as in cream and midnight blue lacquer. Only two have survived: Maria van de Velde’s piano bench (midnight blue lacquer: Ghent Museum for the Applied Arts) and a second of unknown provenance (ebony: private collection in Germany).
Executed in solid beechwood, stained
Dimensions: H: 62 cm, W: 116 cm, D: 47 cm, SH: 47 cm
Design: Henry van de Velde
Extant exemplar: Ghent Museum for the Applied Arts
Manufacturer: ADELTA
via Henry Van De Velde and Bonluxat.
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Marina Bench via Designspotter
Marina Bench designed by Lime Studio.
Marina Bench was designed by Spain design firm Lime Studio found by Panos Vasiliou and Oscar Tange. The inspiration came from the ocean and comes in ocean blue, orange and white. Combining mother nature’s cheerful color and the sleek and modern form, Marina Bench brings in a fresh spring breeze. Literally, it will be presented in the soon coming Salone Satellite 2010 Milan Furniture Fair, which will exhibition their designers on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, at the Rho-Pero Fair Center from 8:00am – 6:30pm. Be sure to stop by if you’re around the area!
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Mikko Paakkanen of Helsinki, Finland based Studio Paakkanen designed this three legged bamboo chair for Japan based Magaru.. Eh..”Piece of cake” or “Slice of the orange” I would say :-)
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