February 22, 2009
These handcrafted cabinets were designed by Dutch designer Ellen Seegers of BeeldenBouwers. The design company, founded with Arno Tummers back in 1999, creates unique objects for the home together and individually.
Oh the left hand-side, next to the blue cabinet a swing lamp can be pulled out. A lot of Dutch houses throughout the country have these pointy roofs that make it tough for any standard furniture to fit.
(Link: apartmenttherapy.com)
Tags: furniture
February 11, 2009
These cupboards by Sander Mulder are called Pandora and were made to look like shipping containers. I couldn’t find any pricing, but I figure that if you live in shipping containers you won’t be able to afford them.
Tags: containers, cupboards, furniture, Sander Mulder
January 10, 2009
In 1990 Piet Hein Eek made his first cupboard from reclaimed scrapwood and the rest, as they say, is history. Soon you couldn’t step into a somewhat upmarket furniture store without stumbling into one or two scrapwood items. The only problem with these, and one that’s persisted ever since, is despite that they’re made out of garbage they’re so damned expensive.
Studio Ditte came up with a solution in the form of scrapwood print. They basically sell the print in the shape of wallpaper (black, white and green), which at a price of 200 euro per roll is still pretty expensive to my taste. Their next step though was to take second hand furniture and refurbish it with their scrapwood wallpaper. “For that extra-lived in feeling,” they say. At the time of writing their tiny Recycle Recycle range is almost sold out, but this small cupboard can still be had for 120 euro, and there’s also a small table left for 60 euro.
Via Bright (Dutch). See also this article at Apartment Therapy. Photo: Studio Ditte.
September 22, 2008
Marbelous is the name of this table with a built-in marble track. Designer Tineke Beunders of the Ontwerpduo studio created it earlier this year. Beunders bases her works on vague childhood memories. I wonder if she mixed up the marble track — which was fun because you got to make it yourself — with the cutting board that had a gravy groove.
Photos: Ontwerpduo. Via Bookofjoe.
August 25, 2008
Canal houses in Amsterdam and in many other Dutch cities have a very big “aaaaw” factor. Marie-Louise Groot Kormelink, owner of Kast van een Huis, combines this with “fun and hip things for your kids that don’t come from that Swedish furniture store”.
It is designer children furniture that can be custom-ordered, mixed and matched, and is very Dutch.
(Link and photo: kastvaneenhuis.nl)
August 20, 2008
Dear lazyweb. As I am a complete troglodyte in matters of taste and style—something I am obviously trying to mask by using fancy words for “caveman”—and I need to make myself a small cabinet to keep magazines in and drinks on, I find myself looking for “open source” furniture. And finding none. Indeed, the closest I am getting so far are the designs of De Stijl giant Gerrit Rietveld, who apparently created some designs for cheap furniture made out crates during The Crisis of the 1930s.
The Rietveld-Schröderhuis website mentions a brochure made by Rietveld for the Commission Concerning Household Education and Family Leadership called Meubels om zelf te maken (Furniture You Can Make Yourself), created around 1943, 1944, but probably never published. Oddly enough, Paul Ket has low-res scans of this brochure on his website, and Brian C. Keith has even created detailed plans for some of Rietveld’s furniture (some of Rietveld’s designs are public domain in the US, I don’t know about the legality of the rest). If you’re too lazy, Rietveld’s grandchildren sell some of the designs as construction kits.
But to get back to my question: do any of you know open source furniture that I could use?
Tags: De Stijl, furniture, open source, Rietveld
April 27, 2008
Eindhoven-based designer Maarten Baas presented prototypes for Chankley Bore, a line of furniture to be sold by UK firm Established and Sons. The photos in Dezeen Magazine show play dough-like lamps (?) and cupboards (?) with some mighty weird extensions.
Baas is a designer who uses actual clay to make furniture, and has a few other interesting projects in his portfolio.
Illustration: Established and Sons.
March 20, 2008
![[photo of a sawn up chair, parts freely separated]](https://www.24oranges.nl/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/sawn_up_chair-ward_van_gemert.jpg)
Rotterdam-based artist Ward van Gemert takes furniture from Marktplaats (the Dutch eBay subsidiary), saws it up into interesting compositions and sells the resulting art pieces back at Marktplaats as a set of parts. The unusable chair shown here – hanging from invisible strings – was made for Van Gemert’s final art school exam.
These days, Van Gemert creates actual, usable furniture, but still according to the same principle of redesigning the familiar. The “stretch” table below was sawn up, then reconstructed into an actual table using see-through casting resin. His art/design may look familiar if you have seen the work of Paul Verode, the man who sawed up Ferraris, whom Van Gemert once studied under.
![[photo of a functional sawn up table]](https://www.24oranges.nl/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/sawn_up_table-ward_van_gemert.jpg)
Tags: chairs, Dutch design, furniture, Rotterdam, tables
October 20, 2007
Hey, this looks just like the bookcases I have in a number of rooms, although mine lack the wooden casings. Sloom & Slordig (Lazy & Messy) came up with this one. BoingBoing shows a more recent design that looks just a little tidier, in case you want things lazy but not so messy. Apparently each box goes for 10 euro, and you can have them made to size.
