Knit Leather & Wood Contemporary Lounge Chair Design. Knitting is rarely associated with anything but the most kitsch (or at least outdated) styles of furniture, used almost exclusively to cover pieces rather than hold them together.
In this patchwork wooden lounge chair, however, the design strategy is entirely different: shaped wood strips are bound with tightly-wrapped rope material, their very structure dependent upon the fabric that fills the gaps. The comfort benefits are intuitive and obvious: such a chair as a mixture of rigidity and flexibility from the high back to the bucket seat and sloped horizontal leg rest are. Even the supporting legs and connective frame below are tied rather than glued together. Along the same lines, Godoylab also manufactures a padded indoor bench that is twined together at careful intervals to give varying degrees of back support within an overall cushioned seating system. Moving Boxes: DIY Modular Cardboard-Recycling Bookcases. Why pay more for modularity when light, cheap and portable will do?
That is the question this creative shelving system seeks to answer, using a series of simple cardboard sheets cut into sturdy square-box storage shelves. Minimalist designer Dany Gilles used a kit-of-parts approach, raiding recycling bins for usable scrap (as can be seen via the labels on the sides of the boxes). The interlocking parts create a system of stable stand-alone book or display shelves that are each structurally independent from the next. Flat-Pack Furniture: Eco-Friendly Cardboard Chair Designs. Designed for everything for dorm rooms to interactive children’s playrooms or even conventional living rooms, the creative cardboard chair and stool designs of David Graas have evolved considerably over time from simple style-free objects to highly stylized furniture designs.
His early works are incredible straightforward and if they are elegant it is only in their simplicity and the way that their form follows their function. Flat-pack, pre-cut sheets of cardboard contain easy-to-punch-out forms that slot together to make simple stools or chairs. Later seating and surfaces follow similar industrial design principles and take advantage of the same structural principles that make these forms work as rigid, load-supporting objects. Though these are likewise sustainable designs, easier to ship and possible to recycle, the forms and curves of these iterations have become more resolved and central to the design process. Space Saving Furniture: All-in-One Multi-Use Desk Design. The designers at o4i have won awards for all kinds of cutting-edge industrial design, some conceptual and some actual.
Based on a thoughtful analysis of actual work patterns this desk design idea takes into account real-life uses of spaces and furniture, arriving at a solution that is both logical and highly creative. This so-called Office Singularity is based on the idea that there are three ways in which we work, relax and interact within or office areas – social/interactive, functional/focused and casual/private. We meet, present, socialize and collaborate while standing up on one side of desk, sit and prepare, produce, work alone at another and summarize, synthesize, chat and contemplate lying back at the third. While (or perhaps because) this design is so simple, singular and elegant one still has to wonder whether they have gotten the problem right – despite the incredibly elegant solution.
Brilliant Spiral Sink and Wash Basin Design. Stylish & Functional Combined Dishwasher & Sink Design. Have you ever wondered if it was really necessary to have both a sink and a dishwasher – two water-fueled kitchen spaces that serve the same purpose but in slightly different ways?
This elegantly simple solution suggests that there is no intrinsic reason to keep these two designs as distinct and independent kitchen fixtures. There is something industrial in the simplicity of this combination dishwasher-and-sink design. Each element is articulated in white, red or wood and all of the constituent pieces stand out from the dull gray background, from the raised-and-lowered cap piece that covers the sink during wash cycles to the wall-mounted dish-drying racks.
Matching the stark and elemental natural of the design, the process for doing dishes with this hybrid device is likewise articulate in each relatively easy step along the way. Bathroom Waterfall? Combined Sink & Bathtub Design. Luxury does not always have to cost a lot or occupy a great deal of space within a home.
This simple cascading waterfall concept dubbed the Wuerfel Bathroom Range by Chin Chia Lim may not be quite as marvelous as a spa or jacuzzi might be but it is remarkably simple, stylish, easy to construct and takes advantages of two systems every bathroom interior design includes anyway: a sink and a bathtub. Whether you simply enjoy the visual effect of the cascading water pouring from above down into the bath before or after you are in it, or wish to sit back and dip your head under the waterfall from above, this design has that resonance of something that is not essential but nonetheless extraordinary – particularly in these lovely and highly idealized renderings. Of course, as great as these images make the system look there could be issues of cleaning, dripping and other real-life concerns that simply do not show up in a conceptual rendering of this kind.