Derek Young Furniture

Derek Young is a Canadian furniture / prop designer who has recently started selling a line of furniture laminated up from a big stack of CNC cut birch plywood shapes. Nothing too unusual there, but what makes it interesting is the way he has cleverly come up with a product line made up from nested shapes. The side table pieces fit inside the coffee table pieces, which fit inside the shelf pieces, and so on. This gives him excellent material utilization, which keeps the prices reasonable. The small end table is only USD$260, which is really good for high quality, non-mass produced furniture made by the guy who designed it. The fit and finish looks excellent as well. I'm really looking forward to seeing more work from this guy.

And I wish more of us independent designers understood production and how to make things so that people might actually be able to afford them.