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Object Culture

Wood Have, Should Have

By Rain Noe - March 7, 2007

For centuries we've been subverting wood to our will; lumber mills and furniture factories spit out rectilinear shapes that fit nicely onto trucks but have little to do with the inherent properties of a tree.

Designer Matthias Pliessnig is trying to stay truer to the material, by "[utilizing] the elastic possibilities of the material. The processes I am using combine boat building techniques with furniture building techniques." His resultant lounge chairs are beautiful and look more like something you'd find in an elven village than in a mass-produced furniture store; they're less Lego, more Legolas.

http://www.matthias-studio.com

Object Culture

Rain Noe

Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.

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12 years ago

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Hasn't David Trubridge already done this
"The processes I am using combine boat building techniques with furniture building techniques."

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