ICFF: GAMplusFRATESI, Luisa Stool / Table

I think I actually saw these a while ago, but didn't pay it much notice at the time. Unfortunate, because in person these are beautiful. They are just laser cut (maybe die cut?) felt sandwiched between two sheets of acrylic. I didn't take any pictures of this, which is just as well, since my pictures aren't very good anyway. The depth of these doesn't photograph well, even in studio shots. Designed by Gam Plus Fratesi, produced by Soft Line.

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ICFF: Douglas Homer Hairy Bertoia

I'm back in Denver now and I'll be posting all my ICFF stuff over the next few days as I can. Here we have Douglas Homer's Hairy Bertoia chair in a mini kids' size. These guys take vintage Bertoia chairs and tie a couple thousand sponge tubes onto them. Our kid loved this- she was bouncing up and down on it for at least 5 minutes, and cried for at least 10 minutes when we took her off. Not cheap, but considering what's involved (taking an out of production design classic and adding massive amounts of labor), not all that bad either.

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ICFF (sort of): Haute Green

Hopped over to Brooklyn today to check out Haute Green and a couple other places. Haute Green had some great work. Highlights after the jump.
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Stew Design Workshop Oenda Chair
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An FSC-certified lounge chair from Stew Design Workshop. What's notable here is the way they've split each layer (to make each piece shorter and easier to nest, and then incorporated that split as a visible gap in the surface. This has a great bit of lateral curvature as well. Something like this is inherently labor intensive though. You can just imagine piecing all those sections together, then having to sand out all the stairsteps.



Elliot & Morin Swarf Lamp

Swarf is the scrap left over from machining aluminum. Most machine shops save it up and recycle it, but Elliot & Morin (no website) have grabbed a bunch and turned it into a pendant shade. Clever and pretty easy to do yourself if you have the slightest bit of initiative.



Materious Bone Lamp

A couple of nested scrap PVC pipes with a bulb, from Materious. The simple ideas are often the best.



Carpenter & Carpenter Book Bookcase

Keeping your books an a bookcase made of books is pretty meta. Sheet steel for stength bolted to old encyclopedias for stiffness and coolness. (Where do you find the "Everyman's Encyclopedia" anyway?) Something inside me wants those shelves to be straight though. From England's Carpenter & Carpenter.





Bleach Design Cocoon Lamp

Cork is a great material, and this is a great subtle lamp from Portuguese Bleach. And of course, Portugal is a good place to get cork.



Uhuru Design Stoolen

I saw a few other stools at ICFF made from chunks of wood (or logs) stacked together in a bundle. I like this one more though. Scrap wood with an old bicycle rim, from Uhuru.

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ICFF: Yasuyuki Senda Utan Doll

Cute wool orangutan doll from Yasuyuki Senda. We bought this cheeky little monkey at the Designboom mart for our cheeky little monkey, who clearly approves. A bargain at $18 (they had a larger one for $32 also). By the way, the Designboom mart has some quite good work, and the prices are reasonable too. We didn't linger there too long as it was getting late in the day and the kid was melting down (hence the orangutan purchase).

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ICFF: Michael Kerschbaumer Pendant

This totally badass pendant from Michael Kerschbaumer was tucked away in the corner. It's basically 3000 zip ties attached to a bit of framework holding a bulb and reflector. From 10 steps away you can't tell what it's made from, then it sort of comes into focus as you get closer. The nylon has a bit of a subsurface scattering effect on the light. Really looks great.

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Where'd the Posts Go?

Yeah, so I haven't posted in a while. Too busy with High Point and JPMA show stuff. But to make it up to you, I'm going to ICFF this weekend (not for work, just looking), and I'll post anything cool I find. Obviously other sites are going to be covering the show pretty thoroughly, but as always, I'll be looking in the forgotten corners for stuff you won't see everywhere else (if that's possible). Stay tuned!

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