Category: The Wacky and the Weird
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Invisible Furniture!
Using the material properties of mirror finished acrylic, brooklyn-based designer Takeshi Miyakawa has created the illusion of disappearing chairs and tables, the assembled pieces are also bent and distorted with heat to create intricate wrinkle-like textures throughout the surface planes. Creative, artistic, imaginative… and likely to cause a sharp increase in bruised knees and stubbed…
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IBM’s Smarter Street Furniture Initiative
Famous for their progressive thinking and innovative brilliance, IBM‘s latest project in their ‘people for smarter cities’ campaign involves art, furniture and a whole new approach to street level advertising.
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Organic, Sustainable Furniture Made From…Cow Droppings?!
Sounds a little crazy doesn’t it? Tel Aviv-based designer Adital Ela doesn’t think so. The dome shaped stools (and stools they are, in more ways than one…) pictured above, are made entirely of recycled agricultural waste, such as compacted earth, construction debris and certain form of, ehhem, organic waste.
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Furniture Uniquely Designed… Using Your Own DNA!
WIRED, a monthly American magazine and online periodical, ran this story a few weeks ago, and the piece caught my eye immediately. Perhaps because the word furniture and the word DNA are not ones that are often used together in the same sentence.
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Furniture with a Glitch!
When I was (much) younger, I went through a stage where I was convinced that all the world was some sort of conspiratorial combination of holographic image or hallucination, and that if I were to leave one room and walk into the next, then the room I had just left would completely disappear and anything…
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Freaky Furniture Friday Part II
TGIF people! And in keeping with the (newly made-up) Madison Seating Blog tradition, it’s time to get freeeeeeeaky! Check out these freakish furniture creations, and, to help set the mood, go ahead and picture yourself waking up in the middle of the night to answer a call of nature, and stumbling around in Victorian…
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Freaky Furniture Friday
It’s Friday people, so let’s get freaky! This collection of freaky furniture combines elements of the morbid and macabre. Personally I struggle to understand the mind that has dedicated itself to the conceptualization and creation of these pieces, but hey, who am I to judge right? after all, I am posting them on my blog……
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Alphabetic Furniture
Hey y’all, Sorry for the brief hiatus. Today I thought we might take a look at a particular furniture design concept that is both innovative and unique as well as being cute and creative. I find myself particularly taken with these pieces in part due to the incredible way that the ingenuity of the design…
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Project Zip:per – Unzipping the Full Potential of Furniture Design
Curiosity about everyday objects has become, in large part, the most important motif to korean furniture design studio the zoom. Their creative genius it seems, lies in their inspirational ability to reinterpret these seemingly mundane and unremarkable everyday objects, a process they refer to as ‘zoom:ing’. ‘Zoom:ing’ takes these objects and, through a combination of…
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Unique Eco-Conscious Furniture
Hey there, hope y’all had a wonderful weekend. Those of you who are avid readers of the Madison Seating Blog, are familiar with my obsession with all things furniture, and especially the innovative, unconventional and sometimes outrageous designs making their way into the furniture world today. Combine that with some other added element such as…
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Thermochromic Furniture and the Thin Line Between Useful and Useless
So I came across this newly developed Thermochromic furniture concept while browsing one day, and while my initial reaction was one of enthusiastic wonder, after a few minutes of processing, I began to develop a bit of a different perspective. But before I get too deep into the philosophical side of this post, why don’t…
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Furniture Made From…Old Elle Magazines!?
Once again the seemingly parallel worlds of fashion and furniture collide; this time however, the protagonist is not some pretentious designer or actor-turned-fashion-guru (ahem, brad pitt…) rather it is made from, of all things, back issues of ‘Elle’, the worlds largest fashion magazine. While the world of preppy furniture design is by now pretty familiar…