I’m proud to know Gary Allson as a fellow Cornish dweller, his work epitomises pared down simplicity and showcases wood’s honest beauty.
Designer’s Statement :
Peg Type by Bags of Joy
A playful typographic exercise using the traditional wooden pegs arranged in various interlocking shapes. When the drying machine is making these things obsolete we say embrace them!
Syosen lacquerware from Yamanka makes delicately and intricately crafted products for the home. The origin of Yamanka ware dates as far back to the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1568–1600). During this time, craftsmen developed their wood curving techniques that has now become distinguishing features of Yamanka lacquer ware. Shoshen lacquer ware respects the beautiful grain of natural wood and perfect base work. They intentionally don’t overpaint the wood in order expose the beautiful grain. It takes over a year to produce these beautiful artisan pieces.
A borosilicate glass and maple tea service, Faraday merges the task of preparing tea with the social experience of consuming it. The use of induction technology allows the boiling of water to take place at the table, without a stovetop or a steel kettle. Neither the serving tray nor the objects upon it get hot while the water boils within the glass vessel.
Faraday Project by Free Time
Over two weeks students explored rule based aggregations and variations of tetrahedron geometries through analog and digital models while simultaneously devising a joinery and documentation system for the full scale build. These images from the 1:1 scale build with the Ex-Lab as part of St Kilda Festival 2011.
The final structure took 8 hours to complete and covered approximately 400 square meters of beach using over two thousand bamboo poles.
Japanese designers Nendo have designed wooden bells containing children’s musical box mechanisms.
The music boxes made of Japanese cypress (hinoki) and harvested as part of sustainable forest management practices were decorated by 57 different designers and design groups.
A discrete and sculptural hand finished wooden jewellery case designed by Saskia Diez for e15.
Branchline by Quarterre is a space efficient bike rack. I have been researching bike racks for sometime for a small design office project I am working on and these are by far the best but sadly out of our budget.
Sculpted with wood and metal, its adjustable arms can be tailored to fit each bike frame’s geometry. The stand can be leant against any wall or inverted to clear floor area in smaller spaces.
A wonderful example of using structure as signature for a space with intelligent integration of storage throughout.
I’ve been a long time admirer of Matthew Hilton’s work and was looking forward to hearing him talk at London Design Week 2011 but just realised it was last years schedule I was looking at - so I’m a bit late.
He has just launched his new website though which is definitely work a peek - beautiful furniture in perfect locations.
White + Wood + Grey makes me smile.
These pages are snippets of things I find inspiring, interesting or simply aesthetically pleasing.
To see my work inspired by these pages please visit www.linea-studio.co.uk
Thanks for taking a peek today.
Kathryn Tyler.
