The Paul & Paula side table by designer Matthias Ferwager are a beautiful pair. The tables, designed for German furniture company Nils Holger Moormann, are built using sturdy reversible laminated wooden tops and steel legs that are held in place by rope that from the looks of it, allows you to adjust the height of the tops.
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Rich Brilliant Willing’s Appalachian chair is a beautiful marriage of wood and metal. The simple design and light weight construction make this chair perfect for all situations in the house. The aluminum frame is hand made in North Dakota and comes in white, black and red with your choice of hard maple or walnut seat/backrest made in Pennsylvania.
Be sure to check out Rich Brilliant Willing’s amazing Branch Light as well!
Israeli designer Hilla Shamia’s Wood & Aluminum cast furniture is amazing, combining the natural logs with the mechanical aluminum in a single casting. The burnt edges where the molten metal hits the wood, working its way into the cracks, gives the pieces an additional dimension.
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The Pack Series of stools from TakeHomeDesign highlights the hard to resist relationship of wood & metal in a flat-pack, easy to assemble and beautifully simple package. These table and bar height indoor/outdoor stools come in your choice of Ash or Teak with 4 colors of powder coated steel supports.
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The search for my dream sofa is over, now begins the search for a way to afford it. British designer Gala Write has released a new version of her Bosco sofa and ottoman. The Bosco II set, with a larger bench style ottoman, continues the line for MARK Product, a Cornwall, England based furniture company, and updates the styling to be a little more modern. The solid oak exposed frame, with elegant details, pairs well with the beautiful neutral grey wool Kvadrat Hallingdal fabric and the subtle button tufting along the back cushion.
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The Stack side table by Singapore based designer Nathan Yong is a set of 3 stackable tables, each a vibrant color, that can be used separately for more surface area, or stacked for storage. The table was designed for Italian manufacture Living Divani and is made from solid wood. Stack will be shown next month at Milan’s Salone del Mobile show.
Les Frères Plo, which means “the Plo brothers,” was conceptualized by French designer Gaspard Graulich as a family of furniture with pet-like qualities. The interlocking system of colorful powder coated steel rod and beautifully stained plywood uses no hardware and can be knocked down quickly for storage.
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Quake, by French designer Antoine Phelouzat, is a modular shelving system for Eno, a Paris based furnishings company. The system is comprised of two parts, a wooden shelf and a steel wire support.
The name comes from the construction of the wire supports that gives the illusion that the shelving is unsteady. The supports come in a variety of heights and can be stacked within one another for compact storage and shipping. Quake was shown at Maison et Objet in 2012.
Design student Karin Ekwall’s brilliantly simple and elegant Åsta Stool borrows joinery techniques from the old-fashioned wooden clamps she used in her school’s wood shop. The stool’s legs have a small split that when pushed into the seat it expands clamping the leg securely in place.
This simple method allows the legs to be both sturdy and easily collapsible. Be sure to check out the images of Karin’s first working model in the gallery below.
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The beautiful Yara WL Chair by in-house designer Stefan Westmeyer for furniture manufacturer Girsberger is built from solid Oak or Ash an comes in either leather or fabric upholstery.
The mixing of the chair’s four legs (reminiscent of early Eames) and the seats modern styling and proportions make for one really elegant chair.
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