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Flop down on one of these DIY treasures. WORDS: Mirelle Leyden | PRODUCTIONS: Klara van Wyngaarden | PHOTOS: Dook Don't despair when you have to replace a tyre (or two) due to the state of our urban roads. Rather reclaim your damaged goods and transform them into seats. What you'll need: • old tyre, painted with Plascon Wall ‘n All White • 1 sheet (1 200 x 800mm) of polypropylene (available from Papersmith and Son, R70 per sheet) • pile of old newspapers • fabric (for cushions)—we used patent PVC in Citron from Tessa Sonik’s Contacts range, R670/m How to: Cut the polypropylene into squares the size of your tyre. Slide one square inside the tyre so that if covers the bottom hole. INTERVIEW: Inhabitat Chats with Recycled Wood Designers Scrapile Scrapile – Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World. I have been enamored with environmentally conscious furniture company Scrapile ever since I came across their line of recycled wood furniture during New York Design week years ago.
Brooklyn-based designers Carlos Salgado and Bart Bettencourt have created a beautiful, cutting-edge line of furniture by collecting wood scraps from various lumber mills and recycling those scraps (which would otherwise be headed for landfill) into their stunning minimalist pieces. At this point, the Scrapile line includes tables, benches, stool, shelving, crates and lamps, all made out of their signature striated material.
I had a chance to sit down with the up-and-coming design duo at their shop in Williamsburg to learn how it all began. JILL: So what is the story of Scrapile? How did the project begin? CARLOS SALGADO: Well, I was working on a chair, and Bart helped me build it, and so I just started hanging out at the shop with Bart more and more. FALT.series by Tim Mackerodt. Designer Tim Mackerodt of Germany will show this lamp and stool made of folded concrete at DMY International Design Festival in Berlin next month.
Called FALT.series, the objects are made from thin sheets of fibre-reinforced concrete that's rolled out and formed over moulds. Mackerodt completed the project while studying at Kunsthochschule Kassel in Germany and will exhibit alongside fellow students at DMY Berlin. Here are some more details from the designer: In order to produce FALT.lamp and FALT.stool, fiber-reinforced concrete from the company g.tecz is rolled out and manually folded on flexible molds. Thin walled objects of the FALT.series produce shapes and surfaces not replicable via conventional concrete casting methods. In contrast, FALT.stool shows the structural strength of the folded concrete. Balloon Bench by h220430. This floating bench by Japanese studio h220430 appears to be held up by bunches of balloons at either end.
The aluminium Balloon Bench is suspended from anchor points in the ceiling, concealed by clusters of polyethylene balloons. See also: Rubber Stool by h220430 More benches on Dezeen » Here are some more details fromt he designers: This is bench was visually inspired by the feeling of floating that the main character felt in the French movie, “Le Ballon Rouge”(1953). Superheroes by Glimpt. These stools by Swedish designers Glimpt are made in Vietnam from rolls of seagrass, bound with the thread that's normally used to make hammocks.
The manufacturers usually produce small bowls made of sea grass fixed with thread, so Glimpt scaled up the process. Called Superheroes, the collection was developed with Vietnamese furniture company UMA. The coloured patterns were created by Swedish illustrator Malin Koort. FUCK YEAH TOBI TOBSEN™ : Shuttlecock Stools. Furniture by Resident at designjunction. London Design Festival 2011: New Zealand furniture brand Resident will launch their inaugural collection at designjunction during the London Design Festival next week.
The collection includes the Flyover Table, made of two folded sheets of steel that slot into upright fins, the Hawk table and chairs in oak and an upholstered armchair called Felix. The cantilevered Spar lamp completes Resident's first collection and was inspired by the rigging on sailing ships. Designjunction will take place at Victoria House Basement, 37 – 63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA from 22 to 25 September and Dezeen Watch Store will be there - more details in our earlier story. Dezeen Platform: Florian Schmid. Dezeen Platform: Florian Schmid presents his Stitching Concrete Project at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform in Dezeen Space today.
The Munich-based industrial designer's chairs were published on Dezeen in August. The project uses the material Concrete Canvas, which was featured on Dezeen in 2009. Schmid folds the Concrete Canvas and stitches the edges together with brightly coloured thread, then supports it on a wooden mould while it’s drenched in water and allowed to harden. The stools can be used indoors or outdoors. The material is durable against UV, fireproofed and water resistant. Schmid developed the project while studying at the Hochschule München in Germany. For more information about the design, testing and construction process see our published story about Florian's chairs.
Each day, for 30 days, a different designer will use a one metre by one metre space to exhibit their work at Dezeen Space.