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The work done by The Agency of Design is flabbergastingly beautiful, but Rich Gilbert and his Super Foam are an incredible stand out to the collection, check out its creation below.
Shown at Salon 94 during New York Design Week 2013. After assembly, these pieces have been bent and distorted by heat creating an interesting wrinkle like texture. Due to their mirror finish, they dissolve into their surroundings depending on which angle you view, creating a partially invisible effect. Materials: mirror finished acrylic
Visible/Invisible Furniture von Takeshi Miyakawa
Most geeks have plenty of nerdy knickknacks piled around the house. But if you really want your fandom to shine, do it with your home décor. Here are 11 of the coolest geek furniture designs from around the net.
One of the most famous pieces of geek furniture in the world, Charles Lushear’s Nintendo controller table is also one of the most functional. That’s because it not only serves as a coffee table, but it can also serve as a giant NES controller. Talk about fun furniture.
While the letter holder couches and tile-inspired pillows are already enough to make this seating area fantastic, the use of the center and triple word squares as tables really ties the whole Scrabble area together.
Sure, anyone could design a chair that looks like it is made from Tetris pieces, but if you really want to celebrate the classic game, the pieces need to be able to come apart, and that’s why Gabriel Cañas’ Tetris chair is so darn perfect. Of course, only Tetris experts should ever take it apart, otherwise they may never be able to put it back into chair shape again.
Of course, Kayla Kromer’s Millennium Falcon bed might be the sexiest piece of geek furniture in the galaxy –especially when she’s curled up on it in her full Princess Leia outfit.
5. The Totoro Bed
Part bed, part sleeping bag, this Totoro sleeping area provides all the cuddliness of your favorite Hayao Miyazaki character. While it’s made for kids, it is reasonably large, so adults can use it too, but if you really need to stretch out, there are larger versions available on eBay.
Neatorama reader Dennis built this amazing set of shelves and the matching table with his girlfriend Judith. The best part is the top middle shelf that is boosted above the rest because Mario and Luigi obviously just jumped into it to get a red mushroom.
For those who prefer munching pills and ghosts to locking blocks in place, the PacM chair by Jose Jorge Hinojosa Primo is a great way to curl up in nostalgia for your favorite old-school game.
More of a modernist? Then don’t miss out on this great iPhone table by iLounge readers Tuan Nguyen and Ken Thomas. Not only does it look great, but the apps are actually functional – at least, as coasters.
If you really want a geektastic table though, there’s no better option than this beautiful Periodic Table that comes complete with samples of every element contained therein. In case you’re wondering, all the elements are contained within clear acrylic blocks in order to help preserve and store the samples safely.
For a sci-fi look in your home office, it’s hard to beat this beautiful Han Solo in carbonite desk, with light-up sides that fit in perfectly with the theme and a heavy glass top so you don’t risk messing up Han’s perfect face while typing out your epic Star Wars fan fiction.
Now you see it, now you don’t. This clever lamp is our latest obsession. Simply called “LIGHT“, it brings new meaning to “throwin’ shade.” Flip it on and light shines through a finely cut hole to create the illusion of a classic lamp shade shape against your wall. Minimal with a touch of humor, it’s attractive, interesting and a total conversation starter.
The bed was created Russian designer Natalia Rumyantseva, and was built to give you the ultimate sleeping experience, all while replicating the starry night sky above you. The bed itself is shaped like a giant capsule, and has been outfitted with a high-tech LED lighting system along the top portion. The bed has also been equipped with a complete audio system, and aromatic dispensers to help you fall asleep comfortably. Forget tossing and turning all night, Cosmos will help you catch some Z’s within minutes of hitting the pillow.
This creative furniture is created by designer Jay Watson. It consist of simple black table and a bench that he calls Linger A Little Longer, and all that it needs is some warm touch to show you it’s magic. What makes this ordinary furniture so special – heat sensitive paint (thermochromic finish) that reacts to heat source. It can be your body or maybe warm cup of coffee, anything that emits some kind of heat and the simple black table starts to react by transferring your heat footprint to it’s surface creating some kind of watercolor paintings, or X-rays. The “watermark” will eventually begin to faint as the table cools down, and will again be flat black.
YOY Design Studio has come up with a concept for two-dimensional furniture, called he Hanging Canvas Furniture. Canvas is a series of two-dimensional furniture pieces that can be displayed on the wall as works of art and, unexpectedly, can also be sat on like real furniture. Each piece is made from wood and aluminum and then covered with screen-printed elastic fabric. It comes in three variations: a stool, a love seat, and a sofa. Just lean the frame against a wall and invite your guests to take a seat in them. When weight is applied against the canvas, it stretches and comfortably adapts to the sitter.
At first glance, you might think these scenes are just rough line drawings along a wall. However, upon closer inspection, it quickly becomes clear that each “illustration” is actually formed out of purposefully arranged wire. Entitled Rough Sketch Products, the series of unique pieces was developed by Tokyo University of the Arts student Daigo Fukawa for his 2013 senior thesis exhibition. When seated upon the scribbles that compose the bench and the variety of chairs, it looks as if visitors are caught in the middle of a drawing that hasn’t quite been finished. The creations offer a world of imagination that instills a sense of playfulness in those who sit upon it. The functional 3D sketches are an amazing take on furniture design and would certainly add a touch of whimsy to any room.
A Christmas Story and the world of DC Comics collide with these awesome Superman and Batman Leg Lamps, perfect for the upcoming holiday season. These indescribably beautiful leg lamps are modeled after the classic lamp from one of our favorite childhood movies. Available in your choice of either Batman or Superman (sorry Marvel fans), both the leg and the lamp light up.
From the kitchen to the bathroom or living room creative and useful furniture and home decor help us create a house to love. And it’s much more interesting than ordinary products make unordinary things. For example, designer Robert Grynkofki created the Mirror 2.0, which uses voice command, face and gesture recognition technology. Two LCD displays are placed behind a one-way mirror with a camera for face recognition, sensors for motion control and a microphone for voice control. To keep you entertained the mirror plays your music or movies, displaying your e-book or streaming the news. If that is not enough, it even communicates reminders or gives you updates on the weather; it can moderate the room temperature and dim the lights.
Good urban architectural design takes space and aesthetic into account, allowing them to work in unison, much like this efficient London apartment in Camden. While some compact residences use a modular design to create the visual effect of more space, this particular English home opts to design vertically by featuring a suspended bed overhead. This innovative apartment allows inhabitants to have more walking room on the ground floor without disrupting the tastefully modern design. The bed hangs above the living area like an elegant, simple balcony with a equally complementing staircase leading up to it. The bed is also situated below a retractable glass skylight that leads to a 500-square-foot rooftop garden. It proves that smaller living spaces don’t mean cramped, unattractive environments.
Designer Anna Leymergie has created Lampe L, a lamp made for angles. It clings on to furniture like a small animal on a promontory. It’s a craft piece, hand-stitched, which makes each piece unique. Materials: rattan, japanese paper, linen yarn & white oak.
Ross Lovegrove has designed the Biophilia Collection for Vondom. Biophilia Collection explores a new design language that forms a dialogue between time, form and space combining the pioneering organic design of Sagrada Famila by Antonio Gaudi, Vondom expertise in advanced roto-moulded technology and my studios ongoing research into the transference of digital process into contemporary design. Taken out of craft and into the 21st century progressive domain of polymerization and industry Biophilia is a collection, acknowledges this lineage but pushes the boundaries between material structure and form into a new modern territory as yet unseen, parametrically conceived and diametrically opposed to modernism in its expression.
In the time of multifunctional furniture and other stuff the following example will surely come in handy. Designed by Seung Hyun Lee, il Woong Jwa, Bom Yi Lee & Jiwon Moon the Multifunctional Bathtub has an exclusive tilt function that allows you to save water when you take a soak. Depending upon how you tilt and use the tub, you could end up saving 80% of water for foot bath, 60% of water for half-body and 40% for full-body bath.
Turn by Simona Sacchi is an incredibly smart and functional armchair design that offers three different configurations in a single complement. The armchair concept is very sleek and would be a great accessory addition to any contemporary interior design project.
This strange cluster of glossy, black and gold spheres is an apple inspired table “Newton Console” by Tinto-based design company Boca do Lobo. The table is ideal for living rooms and hotel lobbies with a modern aesthetic. Made from aluminum and covered with a high-gloss varnish, the table reflects light and pretty much anything surrounding it crisply, adding an extra dimension to this baroque-à-la-mode console. “We design for surprise,” says Boca do Lobo’s CEO Amândio Pereira.
Check out this Nike store display by the Finland-born, Amsterdam-based illustrator Kustaa Saksi before, but this time, it is his fantastical paper display at the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair. The intricate and delicate display from 1120 stacks of A4-size paper (total of 700,000 sheets of paper) suspended from 44,000 points in the ceiling. Ceiling frescoes, church domes, altars – these were all part of the inspiration for Saksi and Wingårdh who concluded that paper is still them most commonly used means of communication and therefore the perfect material for the display.
This interesting chair, Parbolica created by designer Stefan Heiliger. The powerful shape of this “reddot” winner makes the swivel armchair a fantastic object in your living room, which you round off with the covering combination of your choice. The inverted dish-shaped foot is finished in brushed aluminum. With its asymmetric shape, Parabolica offers the user three different moments: reclined and relaxed, sitting “normally” or working with the armrest as a worktop. The multiple award-winning Parabolica has various covering options available for outside, edging and inside.
The Chest of Drawers by Joel Escalona is another fancy interior furnishing concept. The Chest of drawers includes multi-dimensional set of two drawers with a third intersecting in between them. The design concept of the drawers is based on the architectural and geometrical shapes. According to Escalona Booleanos is “inspired by construction and de-construction, which are based on the material finishes.”
This multi-functional furniture can be used in a variety of ways, as a fireplace, a transformed-terrarium or just as a regular table. If you have less space in your condo then Level Compact Coffee Table is best option to try. Made with epoxy paint and heated painted material to last longer life.
Foton illuminating street furniture is a project by Turkish company Hanmak. The main purpose of this furniture is to create awareness about renewable energy. LED lighting system uses the solar and wind energy to produce electricity and stores it in the battery. The furniture itself is made of high quality and long-lasting material.
If you’re looking for modern furniture for your home then you should pay attention to these wonderful pieces of furniture and lighting from “Dami” series. “Dami” means “put in” in Korean, so it’s easy to understand why these pieces are grate-like ones. To achieve this interesting Korean grill design and lightweight,yet sturdy appearance, designer Seung Yong Songhas used an eco-friendly particular manufacturing process: a CNC processing technique combined with Valchromat, an eco-friendly material (wood fiber) that has been colored throughout. Available for different and various usage depending on form and size, their industrial look would certainly work beautifully with a modern decor.
If you like aquatics, then you will absolutely love this amazing headboard fish tank. The fish tank spans the bed, resting on matching tables at either side. There are even some bedside lamps cleverly built into the actual aquarium. The 650-gallon tank was custom built be the people at Acrylic Tank Manufacturers.
The Serenad chair’s was created by Ali Alavi. This elegant form is inspired by the unique sleeping position of the swan with it’s head between its wings as it floats on the water. Its soft yet extravagant shape is off-set by a surprising reflective chrome finish that mirrors the colors and patterns of everything around it. Definitely not appropriate for every interior style, but place it in the right room with the right surroundings and it’s sure to make a statement.
