Steelcase Node Reinvents Classroom Seating
By Andrew Liszewski
It might be designed for the needs of modern classrooms, but I’m pretty sure I could use one of these Steelcase Node desk chairs around my home/office. Besides better addressing the needs of today’s laptop-toting students with ample bag storage under the seat and an adjustable work desk sized for most notebooks, the Node also swivels and is on wheels making it very easy to re-arrange an entire classroom should a different configuration suit the day’s lesson plan. Whether it’s a lecture or working in smaller groups. The chairs are also available in a variety of color combinations since branding seems to be an important part of higher-learning these days.
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Posted: August 25th, 2010
at 5:38am by Andrew Liszewski
Topics: Design, Furniture, General, Innovation
Rubbish Table!
All you designers know you’re a messy bunch. Give you a table, a pencil, paper, eraser, sharpener and I’m willing to bet an artful pile of trash would build up all over the floors. No need to be a mess cat anymore. The La Gota Table has a hollow leg with a trash bin at the base. The opening is surrounded by ripples to prevent anything from mistakenly rolling in. The timber parts are made from reclaimed lumber and the table top – a soy based polymer resin with bamboo fillers. HOT! I want one.
Designer: Timothy Emmott
Posted: April 9th, 2010
at 4:26pm by Long Tran
Topics: Furniture, La Gota Table, Living, Product Design, Rubbish Table, Timothy Emmott, table
Pretty Sleepy Dream Machine
Hallo! All mein liebe. I am about to show you exactly what you might fall asleep upon. And it’s not because it’s got a good voice for storytelling. Nay! It is because it is a bed! It’s called the “Private Cloud Model 1.2″ and it’s a real rocking bed. Really, really, for real, it will rock you to sleep. Or, if in some situations you’re going to be sleeping with a glass of water on your chest, you can also lock the rock.
To lock the rock all you’ve got to do is stop the rock with the feet. The feet fix the bed in stopped motion. You can also use these feet to fix the bed in any slant you’d like for if you’re wanting to read a book or watch the television. And it comes in so many sizes!
Available sizes: (Size matress) 100×200cm, 120×200cm, 140×200cm, 160×200cm, 180×200cm, 200×200cm, 220×200cm.
Holzarten: Ash and oak, nature or nature oiled.
The group that makes this bed usually takes amazing photos with models that bring forth the true essence of the product. Unfortunately, they do not come included. They’re busy sleeping on their own.
Designer: Mkloker Design
Posted: February 26th, 2010
at 9:01am by Chris Burns
Topics: Furniture, Living, Sleep, Sleeping In Public, beds, blade runner, do robots dream of electric sheep, dream, dream machine, electric dream machine, models
Unique As It Gets!
Totally Unique & Awesome, that’s how I like to describe Rocking On The Beach. Be it you actually grooving on the sandscape or rocking yourself to La La Land in this glorious chair! This is one of the things you really got to see to believe so I recommend you hit the jump and catch the two videos that brilliantly showcase the breeze, the sound of waves and the sandy beach via clinging pipes of a rocking chair!
Main material used: ABS, plywood & sand
Designers: Joon&Jung Designteller
rocking on the beach by studio joon & jung from matylda krzykowski on Vimeo.
Posted: February 12th, 2010
at 3:20pm by Radhika Seth
Topics: Chair, Furniture, Interiors, Joon&Jung Designteller, Living, Rocking On The Beach, Sea, rocking, rocking chair, sand
Pratt Takes a Seat at IMM Cologne
Tips of the hat to Pratt! Getting a bunch of chairs into this renowned design fair is a big deal! Pratt is partnering with Folkwang Academy to exhibit chair designs at imm cologne! Cologne Germany will be glad to host this exhibition entitled “Take A Seat,” to take place January 19-24 2010. Here we’ve got a lovely preview of the pieces! Check em all out, then inspect them at the fair! See you in Germany!
Designer: Pratt Industrial Design Students
Michael Chuapoco, SRR Lounge Chair The energy of balance and movement tied with rest and support. Sitting, reclining, rocking, and balancing.
Binh Dang, Folding Chair Hospitality inside the context of a compact urban living space. Made of red oak and brass hardware.
Evan Dewhirst, The Buoy Chair Green manufacturing and an iconic form. A buoy! Made of a turned cork seat, a spun aluminum collar, and an inflatable buoy.
Sara Ebert, Salvation Stool This lovely thang uses discarded and unwanted wool sweaters as upholstery covers. Felting used to cut material without the yarn unraveling. Core made of plywood and urethane foam.
Ingrid Fetell, Amino Kid’s Chair Inspired by the movements of fanciful little kiddies! “Joyfully, experimentally, and freely.” Based on the tensile balance of highly elastic materials and inelastic ones (bungee cords and nylon panels.)
Christina Fesmire, Fugle Swing Made of renewed maple veneer. Asks the question “is adulthood joyful?” Seat made after weeks of anatomical study of the human tailbone. Walnut inlay, hemp rope suspensions.
Tawny Hixson, Ari Chair Fabricated from steel and raw cowhide. Designed as part of Pratt’s Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen.
Michael Roopenian, Corner Chair Made of laminated poplar. Takes advantage of structural properties of the corner. Physics, man, physics.
Thomas Stern, Line A subtle re-interpreitation of the structural language of chairs. Designed as part of Pratt’s Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen.
Chairy!
