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An Impressive Build: Watch This Designer Create This Curved Bench from Scratch
By Rain Noe - Nov 10, 2017
If you were shown a sketch of a design like this, to be made from solid wood, how would you make it?
Enter a caption (optional)Consider that the radii of the slats are concentric, so that they cannot be separately laminated from a single mold. Well, the Croatia-based designer/builder (the chap behind the Lignum YouTube channel) has clearly thought this through carefully. Watch his efficient build process, which includes a glue-up process that makes you go "Ah, of course you'd do it that way:"
Rain Noe
Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.
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By Rain Noe - Nov 01, 2017
Transforming Furniture: An Office Chair That Turns Into Lounge Chair
The Hybrid Chair can be ordered in both manual and automatic versions
Do you remember the clever mechanism designed by Sander Lorier that enabled an office chair to turn into a lounge chair? He's now redesigned and refined it, creating this very cool piece of furniture that's now up on Kickstarter: The space-saving chair, and the engineering that went into
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By Rain Noe - Oct 31, 2017
VAM Shows You How Marcel Breuer's Short Chair is Molded
…but they leave out one crucial step. What's your guess for how they did it?
Marcel Breuer designed his Long Chair and Short Chair for the Isokon Furniture Company way back in the 1930s. This year the UK's Victoria and Albert Museum brought their cameras into the Isokon Plus workshop in London, to show you how the Short Chair's main component is built today. Check
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By Rain Noe - Oct 31, 2017
Jim Rose's Steel Furniture Designs, Influenced by Shakers and Quilting
In 1989, Jim Rose graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago with a background in sculpture, jewelry and casting. In the mid '90s, Wisconsin-based Rose and his wife took a roadtrip to the East Coast, and along the way they stopped by some Shaker museums to check
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By Rain Noe - Oct 17, 2017
New Design for Sofa That Transforms Into Bunk Beds
...and a bit of a mystery
You remember this couch that folds into bunk beds? That one, called the Doc, was featured in our most popular video of all time. We've long known that that piece, and many of the others in the Resource Furniture showroom where we shot it, was designed and manufactured by
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