Home Furnishings
2012 Year in Review: Best of Get Out!
We all seem to covet our time in nature so it's only natural that these outdoor furnishings will make our lives not only easier, but more enjoyable. Even though it's winter now for most, take a swing back through the best of our outdoor finds that will make summer seem not that far off in the future.
Friday Five with Evan Clabots of Nonlinear Studio
Evan Clabots, who studied at RISD and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland, not only won awards as a student, but designed a licensed a product with IKEA before graduating. In 2004, he joined Dror Benshetrit's studio as Benshetrit's first hire, where he headed both the Product Design and Interior Design departments. In 2004, Clabots founded Nonlinear Studio, a multidisciplinary business that offers aproduct design, furniture design, interior design, brand identity, and art direction. For Clabots, design is a process of developing a complete story. He seeks the interconnected play between what something looks like, how it works, and how it interacts with someone’s life. Let's see what he chooses for inspiration for this week's Friday Five.
Thread Bench Made from Bent Metal by Ola Giertz
Swedish furniture and product designer Ola Giertz created the Thread Bench, which looks like metal easily bent and twisted into the finished shape. In actuality, the bars of metal are manually bent by both cold and warm forging, a much more labor-intensive process.
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Pli Folding Chair by Florian Hauswirth
Pli Folding Chair is a minimal design created by Switzerland-based designer Florian Hauswirth. He started his career as a model builder for Vitra in Switzerland. He was able to construct models for some of the most renowned designers in the industry, such as Jasper Morrison, Philippe Stark, and Antonio Citterio to name a few.
A Visit to Still House
Design Store(y) heads to the East Village this holiday season to tour Still House, owned by Pratt graduate Urte Tylaite. The 300-square-foot sliver of a space was designed by Brooklyn-based firm Silva/Bradshaw, and features wood plank floors, a dropped wood plank ceiling, narrow wood plank shelving along the walls, and plywood display cases down the middle. Tylaite features items from local designers, plus pieces from Scandinavia and Japan. Still House opened its doors a bit over 18 months ago; we've been dying to get inside.
The Best 2013 Modern Calendars
Be ready for the new year! It's that time again - time for a whole new year. A fresh start. A new beginning. Or just more of the same old, same old. Any way you slice it, it's time for a new calendar. For 2013, we've rounded up 25 of our favorite 2013 modern calendars. Which one will grace your wall or desk this coming year?
Curl Table Lamp by Sebastian Bergne for Luceplan Spa
The design of the Curl table lamp combines both the light source and the light's reflector into one curvy piece. Designed by Sebastian Bergne for Luceplan Spa, the unconventional lamp uses what's known as "tuneable" LED lighting to adjust the white light temperature from 2400? to 3500? kelvin.