Bodging Milano at Designersblock
Milan 2010: at Designersblock in Milan last week designers including Gitta Gschwendtner, Carl Clerkin and William Warren presented chairs made in an English forest with green woodworking techniques. More
Milan 2010: at Designersblock in Milan last week designers including Gitta Gschwendtner, Carl Clerkin and William Warren presented chairs made in an English forest with green woodworking techniques. More
Milan 2010: London designer Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility presented a wooden chair combining robotic and handcraft processes for Italian brand Mattiazzi in Milan last week. More
Milan 2010: at Spazio Rosana Orlandi in Milan this week designers Boaz Cohen & Sayaka Yamamoto of BCXSY are exhibiting a series of folding wooden screens made in collaboration with a Japanese joinery craftsman. More
Milan 2010: Designer Robi Renzi of RenziVivian will present a series of cabinets assembled from a patchwork of salvaged wooden components in Milan later this month. More
Smolenicky & Partner Architektur of Zurich have completed thermal baths featuring oval apertures between tall wooden columns at Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. More
Artists Studio Job will present a collection of furniture decorated with marquetry at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London. More
Milan 2010: Eindhoven collective La Bolleur will construct a mini golf course in Zona Tortona in Milan this April. More
Architect Ben Naqoka of Point has completed an installation featuring plywood archways at the Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in Tokyo, Japan. More
Stockholm 2010: at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week Stockholm designer Shane Schneck exhibits a wooden chair that can be hung from the edge of a table by its cantilevered seat. More
Architects Lightroom Studio of Georgia have completed an outdoor living room, built around a tree at a house in Atlanta, USA. More
American designers Von Tundra have created an oak dining chair with a raw maple seat and backrest. More
At Object Rotterdam in the Netherlands this week Dutch designer Aldo Bakker will present a collection of stools made of reclaimed wood coated in a clear glossy lacquer. More
Milan 2010: Hong Kong designer Michael Young has designed a collection of wood and aluminum furniture for design brand Emeco, which will be presented at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this April. More
Utrecht designers Rogier Martens and Sam van Veluw of Aandeboom have designed a flat-packed play house that can be attached to the trunk of a tree. More
London designer Nina Tolstrup of Studiomama has created a cabinet with hidden compartments made of reclaimed floorboards. More
London designers Studio Weave have completed a visitors' shelter made of wooden profiles depicting trees and plants overlooking Kielder Water in Northumberland, UK. More
French Architects RMDM have completed a cultural centre near Paris, clad with horizontal strips of poplar wood and ceramic tiles. More
Spanish designers CuldeSac have designed a sofa using techniques borrowed from automobile manufacture. More
Paris architect Julien Boidot has completed three wooden structures for a municipal campsite in the Loire Valley, France. More
Czech designer Klára Šumová has designed a wooden lamp where the turned base emerges from a raw tree branch. More