Library by Thomas Bentzen

Library is an extension of FBJ’s core product line furniture for receptions, offices and banks. A room divider, a cosy nook, a shot of homeliness with a sloping ceiling that can be tiled with books or magazines. The book ends offer storage space for magazines, a graphic deviation in the room, which can be used to create order or chaos. Library is made in classic ash to give the storage a warm glow.

Library, by Thomas Bentzen

Ibere Camargo Museum by Álvaro Siza Vieira

When the international contest for a building that would house the works of Brazilian painter Iberê Camargo, who died in 1994, was launched, it was equally supported by the artist’s family and the local administration, who donated the site near the Padre Cacique road, in Porto Alegre, a city with over one million inhabitants, in southernmost part of Brazil. The site was a difficult one, shaped as a small and tight triangle, surrounded by rocks of around 25 metres in height, offering a great view on the river Guaiba.

In his museum project, Álvaro Siza Vieira incuded exhibition spaces, storage spaces, a library and a video-library, a cafe, a small auditorium, as well as administrative spaces and workshops for artists. Consequently, the building developed vertically, the main volume being dug in the rocky background. The building’s shape moulds upon the nearby slopes and, through a coherent distribution of space, solves the problem of parking, extremely important in such a tight place, situated near crowded arteries.

Ibere Camargo Museum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, by Álvaro Siza Vieira
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Fray Leon house by 57 Studio

This is a residence for a family who looks for a more extensive terrain and ampler spaces, without leaving the traditional neighborhood where it has lived for almost 30 years. Located on the east side of Santiago, the main characteristics of the neighborhood are the presence of old growth trees and huge lots with houses that have a limited relation with the street.

Fray Leon house, Santiago, Chile, by 57 Studio
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Shitake Stool by Marcel Wanders

Marcel Wanders describes Shitake as follows:
“And Snow White was in the middle of them, lying in a beautiful crystal coffin, as white as snow and without her usual rosy cheeks. They sat around the coffin, on little stools covered in lace, which Snow White had embroidered and given to them for their one hundredth birthday.
All seven of them were crying and big tears rolled down their beards onto the floor. It was time to say goodbye – their lives without her would never be the same again”.

Molded in plastic, they have a hollow interior that can be filled with water, sand or other substances and come in black, white, or red.

Shitake Stool by Marcel Wanders, for Moroso

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Modella Glassware by Boa Design Studio

The Modella set comes from the shape of a cylinder which is tapered in the middle to lighten the cylinder’s strict geometrical shape. The fragility and simplicity of the form is further enhanced by a thin stem with a length that changes according to glass type. The stem is missing from the glasses for whiskey and water, and the bottom is thickened to balance the proportions of the form.

Modella, by Boa Design Studio, for Květná Glassworks

Scissor Chair by Kiki Van Eijk for Skitsch

The linear nature of this design and slender profile of the legs transform the traditional type of rocking chair into a fully modern chair. The cover, embroidered with the scissor motif, a sort of designer’s trademark, represents a soft counterpoint to the lightness of the structure.

Domestic Tales Scissor Chair, by Kiki Van Eijk, for Skitsch

Haus Bold by Thomas Bendel

The house consists of prefabricated concrete elements, the front and back of the house is made of glass and black anodized aluminum.
The interior includes a dramatic steel handrail, which spans the ten meters long staircase and wraps around seamlessly into the balustrade above. The house is placed to take advantage of the views of a hills and surrounding landscape.

Haus Bold, by Thomas Bendel

Books: The Eames Lounge Chair: An Icon of Modern Design

 
When Ray and Charles Eames arrived in Los Angeles in 1941, they turned a spare room in their apartment into a workshop to experiment with molded plywood forms with the goal of mass producing furniture. During the war, they began making molded plywood splints for the U.S. Navy. This combination of experience and experimentation led to the design many well-known chairs, including the DCM Chair and the LCW Chair (Low Chair Wood). Sometime in the early 1950s Charles and Ray decided to go ahead with developing an upholstered super-comfortable lounge chair, like those found in men’s clubs. Charles Eames says that “the motivation behind most of the things we’ve done was either that we wanted them ourselves, or we wanted to give them to someone else, and the way to make that practical is to have that gift manufactured… the lounge chair for example, was really done as a present for a friend, Billy Wilder, and has since been reproduced.” 

The Lounge Chair has since been in continuous production by Herman Miller, Its rosewood veneer and black leather upholstery became a status symbol ”…and during the last decade or so, newspapers and magazine stories have depicted the Eames Chair as the throne of choice for movie moguls and other powerful businessmen who seek to project and air of informal, but total control.” The chair evolved to become the height of luxury and comfort and one of the most important design icons of the 20th century. 

The book examines the designs of Ray and Charles Eames and with lavish photographs and illustrations, documents the evolution of the Lounge Chair and places it in its cultural, historical and social context. It also includes insightful interviews of people involved in making the Lounge Chair and observations on its transformation into a Modernist icon.

Charles Eames was often asked to “explain” the Chair. One of his most quoted lines was that he wanted it to have “the warm receptive look of a well-worn first baseman’s mitt. Anyone who has owned the Lounge Chair will tell you — it gets better with age.

The Eames Lounge Chair: An Icon of Modern Design, by Pat Kirkham, Thomas Hine, David Hanks, Martin Eidelberg, Hardcover, Dimensions: 25 x 25 cm, Pages: 192
Published by, BIS Publishers
ISBN: 9789063691356
Buy it here: Amazon

Tye River Cabin by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen

Winner of the American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum, The Tye River Cabin is a structure distilled to a fireplace, windows and a roof. This 1,200 square-foot 2 bedroom retreat is essentially a wooden tent on a platform that opens to the forest and river. Materials are allowed to weather and merge with the site.

Tye River Cabin, Skykomish, Washington, USA, by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen