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Log buildings, docks, fences, telecommunication poles, wood flooring or charcoal — this is what palm tree wood is usually used for nowadays. It’s known for being difficult to…
This time (July 2016) Modernica teamed up with LA-based artist Cleon Peterson for a Case Study Daybed — limited to 100. Images:modernica.net
They don’t stop. Modernica still regularly cooperates with writers turned artists (in the conventional sense), skateboard brands or – a recent addition – tattoo artists. Here the collaborations…
Exclusive to one exhibition at Kyoto’s BABE Gallery in 2014: Saarinen Tulip Stools covered with classic A Bathing Ape camo fabric. The stool was part of the Original…
Another Krink-Modernica collaboration. No drips but a tame silver for this 2014 product. Images from krink.com
Loads of people build loads of things – mostly some sort of seating or a bed – with paletts. I like this outcome above. These seatings are as…
Fuzi UVTPK hand painted this Eames chair for 2014’s annual auction held by Foundation Gustave Roussy, a foundation dedicated to the research on and fight against cancer. This…
There is not a lot of talk about the streets, nonconformity, graffiti, punk rock or skateboarding here. Since 2009 (as far as I can track this back) Modernica…
Sideboard Piana of Swiss furniture manufacturer Willisau painted by Krink in 2013. Images from krink.com
It’s in the name: MeChair – me, myself and I. You could also call this chair the epitome of an individualistic, capitalist society. MeChair is a chair that…
I now and then write about scratches (1) (2) or cuts but it’s the first time I saw them on a design piece like this. Earsnot and Semen…
Simple.Stool made for Nike’s Running event VCXC by Brooklyn-based illustrator and menswear brand founder Jon Contino in 2012. Needless to say that Contino played in hardcore bands when…
“Stacked benches (after shelves)” – an either bench or shelf made out of plywood by design and art studio ROLU, rosenlof/lucas, ro/lu from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Images: rolu.terapad.com and ro-lu.com/furniture/seven-stacked-benches-after-shelves
Chair designed and built as a collaboration between Hixsept and We Are Rocket Science for Hixsept’s 2012 summer collection “Variations”. Photographed by Jeremy Liebman. Photo by © Jeremy Liebman taken…
Stumbled over these photos on the Flopbox. It’s a part of Ari Marcopoulos’ exhibition “Abandoned Sleep” at San Francisco’s Ratio 3 in 2011. First I thought it is…
Seating at the exhibition “Buffed Paintings” (2010) by Thierry Furger in Zurich. “I don’t like (…) the normal clean graffiti in the galleries, but the spontaneous, quick and…
Photos:(1) Modern adaption of Shimanawa created with rice straw wattles for Little Tokyo Design Week LA 2011 photographed by Redteam, (2) Shimanawa at Izumo Taisha shintō shrine by Takashi…
Photos from work.poolhouse.eu, © Benjamin Ledu This interpretation of a mono bloc chair made quite a buzz when a first photo appeared on the French design page muuuz in spring…
Bench out of Anvil guitar cases and cymbal stand bases by New York-based artist Banks Violette. Exhibited at the “Not Yet Titled” show at Team Gallery NYC in…