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Maarten Baas: Clay Table With Drawer
There is something about Maarten Baas’s Clay series that reminds me of Lousie Bourgois’s spider sculptures. Each of them is unique as they are individually modeled in synthetic clay over a metal...
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Maarten Baas: The Plain Clay Series
Maarten Baas trained in the Art Academy in Eindhoven, one of the most influential design schools in the world, where not only the character, language and aesthetics of design innovation are considered...
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Studio Makkink & Bey: Education Trestles and Easels
This ultimate transformer table was designed for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum by the dutch design firm Studio Makkink and Bey. Makkink an architect, and Bay a graphic designer, run a...
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Zelouf and Bell: Fan Desk
The Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris currently had an exhibition of furniture by Zelouf and Bell until April 26th. From their workshop in country Laoise in Ireland they produce an eclectic array of...
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Zelouf and Bell: Dolmen
Prehistoric Dolmens must have been a piece of cake to construct compared to Zelouf and Bell‘s Dolmen table. You don’t see many slanting lines on curved surfaces for a good reason, they are very...
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Zelouf and Bell: Monolith, scarred and healing
Zelouf and Bell love the adventure of collaborating with an artist. In the case of the Monolith scared and healing console the adventure was with Danish artist Jorn Ronnau, who sculpted directly on...
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Zelouf and Bell: Black Mamba
I love animal tables. Zoomorphism make furniture feel like part of the family rather than just a functional object. Like a pet dog it’s a kind of extension of who you are, only you don’t need to feed...
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Zelouf and Bell: Gazelle desk
Zelouf and Bell’s Gazelle desk manages to be both fun and distinguished masculine and feminine all that the same time. The main body of the desk is of quarter sawn and oiled oak, which gives it great...
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Zelouf and Bell: Koi Noir
The marquetry on Zelouf and Bell’sKoi Noir table is not your usual polite decorative borders, it is more like wood tattoos, a bold individual statement. There is a fluidity to this image that is not...
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Hella Jongerius: Sphere Table
.veq9{position:absolute;clip:rect(425px,auto,auto,455px);}small payday loans very cheap When I first saw this desk I thought it was a rather gadgety decoration reminiscent of Woody Allen’s film “The...
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Galerie Secula Marzaux : a pair of shagreen side tables.
Spotted today at the flea market in Saint Ouen, two 1950′s side tables that are surprisingly light weight, as I believe the metal to be folded sheet bronze so it is hollow, and the table top in...
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Lennart Van Uffelen: Funcionality Kills the fun
Lennart Van Uffelen says that functionality kills the fun, but it could also be said that killing functionality is fun, but not, kill the funny functionality.
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Ghislaine Antiques: Recuperated table-top
At Ghislain antiques they found an american table that had a fabulous table top, but the legs left a lot to be desired. So they loped off the legs and kept the interesting large american walnut...
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Amanda Karsburg and Dennis Graben: 7 Wonders
The puzzles that children do and the school tables that they do them on seem to have melded into one in this simple table system that gives you small task orientated tables that can regroup as one big...
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Erwan Boulloud: Coiffeuse
You could make no better thing with brass and burnt wood than Ewan Boulloud‘s precious dressing table, confectioned in his workshop just north of Paris. This table is all about the legs. Like giant...
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Pierre Cardin: Brass and Chrome
Pierre Cardin is known for his unfussy simple designs. Yet he manages to break on of the major rules of simplicity with aplomb, that is not to use silver coloured and gold coloured metal together....
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James Mudge: Carpenters table
Massive simple wooden tables are having quite a moment right now, and James Mudge has bought the art to a whole new level with this beautifully designed joint between the leg and the table top. I am so...
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James Gandon’s Drawing Desk
I was sent this photo a while ago by Ciarán Cuffe, urban planning lecturer, Green party politician and fellow Irish architect. There seems to be a lot of what he’s about in this desk. It is the 18th...
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Art Deco Shagreen Tray Table
I wasn’t allowed to take more than one photo of this table, then the gallery owner started to act kind of rudely towards me, and I was a little slow to cop on to the fact that she thought that I was...
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“The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an...
George Carlin 1937-2008 American Comedian.
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