London Design Festival 2015
[Kitchen Stool] The American Hardwood Export Council is taking part in London Design Festival (LDF) 2015 with four projects. One of these is Kitchen Stool designed by Felix de Pass in collaboration with Alison Brooks.
The stool that sits at the counter in my kitchen is the most popular seat in the house. I think stools offer a dynamic kind of sitting – they let you perch somewhere to eat or read a paper or work on your laptop – there’s a temporary quality to sitting on a stool; you don’t have to commit to sitting down. I have never been able to find a really great kitchen stool that is the right height for a kitchen counter and that is quiet, clever and beautiful.
The stool is composed of a cherry seat and post that the designer steam-bent into three legs. With Benchmark’s help, he labored over how to attach the stainless-steel footrest, settling, eventually, on three metal bars. Brooks helped Felix improve the seat into a light disc that becomes tougher where it joins the base.
[Penta Lamp] Cassava is one of the crops that is being cultivated the most in Thailand and during certain periods of the year, there is an excessive provision of it, causing a huge amount of residues and pollution. With the purpose of finding a solution to this problem, Anon Pairot Design Studio created Penta, a modular pendant lamp, that creates no waste and optimizes the product.
The most excellent quality of the cassava material is that it can be 100% recyclable and no chemical wastes are left behind. Moreover, under appropriate conditions, the material can be naturally decomposed within 2-3 weeks.
[Serif TV] During London Design Festival (LDF) 2015, Samsung presents Serif TV designed by the French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec – conceived as a piece of furniture and defined by a single and monochrome frame. Far from being an ultra-flat screen, it can mirror the surroundings of the room by a “curtain mode” screen to “pull across” during ads.
[Alphabeta Lamps] Luca Nichetto’s modular Alphabeta lamps for Hem are digitally personalizable by the customer, with more than 10 billion possible combinations. They are obtainable in eight different shapes of interchangeable top and bottom components, and in a range of hues besides black and white. They fit to a bi-directional lighting source for spaces above and below the lamp, and can be hung as single elements or in larger groups.
My inspiration was really an ambition to create an alphabet; a system where you can combine different kinds of shades to create your own lamps. I researched different kinds of shades and effects of light, and tried to simplify that by creating a single piece that can be combined with the other shades, to create a kind of alphabet.
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