pop the bubbly
February 25th, 2008
The Design Within Reach in Adams Morgan hosted the showing of the “champagne chairs” tonight with complementary bubbly and fine chocolate from Biagio. The Champagne Chair Contest is an annual event to make the best miniature chair using only the foil, label, cage and cork from no more than two Champagne bottles. Displayed in little 4″ Plexiglas cubes, the champagne chairs exhibited some pretty impressive craftsmanship. The DWR Staff winning pick (shown above) is made of what looks to be a ground cork/glue combo that has been meticulously and painstakingly sculpted into an elegant little chair.. The other chairs had a much more straight forward approach to using the cork. The popular-vote pick was this fun little chair.
Interesting/random little event with (miniature) furniture, bubbly, and chocolate. Doesn’t get much better.
I Heart Plywood
January 4th, 2008
I’d just like to say that I Heart Plywood. Not so much in an “I Love Lamp” sort of way, because that would just be weird. It’s more of an appreciation for the forms that modern plywood molding techniques allow. I’m thinking this probably goes back to my skateboarding days when you would spend time inspecting the uniques
curves and
contours of the board, only to then take it outside and beat it into oblivion.The photo above
(series here) is of a pretty sweet “overlap” table designed by
Eric Pfeiffer that I got for Christmas (and am actually using as I write this). Bent plywood furniture has been around for some time though, the
Eames were some of the first designers to fully utilize the plywood molding techniques that were available to them in the 1940’s-60’s and began to push the envelope creating
iconic designs that are still popular today. They even managed to create a very nice
plywood elephant. Furniture designers all around the world continue to push this medium creating
striking forms with more and more innovative uses.I tell you what though, the folks at
SKURNITURE (Skateboard+Furniture=Skurniture) really got it right.
