The Edie child’s stool(or bedside table) was designed by David Steiner and Joni Steiner to be made from a single piece of plywood on a CNC router with ‘air-fix’ construction.
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As the customer you can browse a range of furniture collections, download and then make the furniture yourself, or get it made on demand by a maker close to you. The internet enables distributed manufacturing models such as OpenDesk , a global platform that connects local makers and international designers. The original Plumen 001 is exhibited at useful+beautiful, and as part of the Design Today exhibition (pictured left) celebrating 150 years of John Lewis until August 31st. Crowdfunding sites offer designers the opportunity to leverage their fan base for financial support, for example, Hulger, the company behind designer-low energy light bulb brand, Plumen, raised the $20,000 they needed in a week on to launch their second product, 002, an energy efficient alternative to the 30W incandescent light bulb, in January 2014 (they eventually raised nearly $60,000). Wool is naturally flame retardant, breathable, durable, biodegradable, and provides great acoustic insulation, hence the name, Hush.ĭigital technologies are providing new materials, new ways of making and marketing products. The pods are cut from a single piece of 10mm industrial wool felt and lined with padding made from recycled wool fibres, a by-product of the British carpet industry.
Hush creates an immediate moment of calm. Our lives are so immersed in the omnipresent worldwide web, and constant connectivity of digital technology, solitude and respite are rare. Climbing inside Freyja Sewell‘s felt cocoon, Hush, you have an immediate sense of retreat, even sanctuary in the midst of the museum. The form and function of the objects around us influence our physical and emotional experience of a space. Design is also dialogue, influencing the way we live, as well as responding to it. What is more, 2014 is the centenary of the former almshouses’ conversion into the Geffrye Museum, so it is fitting that the exhibition celebrates the local furniture-making trade of London, and Shoreditch in particular one of the original aims of the museum.Īs Annabelle Campbell, Head of Exhibitions and Collections at the Crafts Council notes, “Good design is about innovation, it’s about elements of sustainability”. Each of the products is innovative in some way, whether through its use of a new material, technology or adaptation to the way we live today. The current exhibition at the Geffrye Museum useful + beautiful: contemporary design for the home revisits Morris’ ‘golden rule’ bringing together products from a range of emerging designers and established names. Over a hundred years ago William Morris advised “have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”.
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