Photo by Curbed NY editor Kelsey Keith
Last night Curbed NY editor Kelsey Keith stopped by the Pavilion of Art and Design at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC and snapped the above photo of a toile de jouy "wallpaper" created by ceramicist Beth Katleman. In fact, "Folly," as the piece is called, consists of hand-done porcelain sculptures of, as the Times points out, "elves and Barbies in lieu of frolicking aristocrats." Unbelievable.
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"There's so much waste, it makes me cringe," says Belgian-born artist Walter Raes in his artist's statement—no doubt with the sort of awesome accent that makes the sound of such words even cooler. "I want people to know how much effort goes into manufacturing everyday things." Thus explains "Missing," the curious (and aptly named) table above, which debuted at this year's London Design Festival in an installation modeled after a vintage room vignette. As our friends at Design Boom astutely point out, "Upon closer inspection, the traditional British suburban space delivers a sharp comment on waste, as each familiar object turns out to be a pile of inventively reassembled trash." Ah, art.
· Walter Raes at London Design Week 2011 [Design Boom via moggit]
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Many folks consider themselves the "pilot" of the bedroom, but finally, at long last, here's a way to make that statement more a truth than a pipe dream: the Mile High Bed from MotoArt, a California-based design firm that crafts furniture from recycled plane parts. The bed, made from polished DC-9 rear stabilizers and a C-130 inner flap, "will lift you to new altitudes of comfort and style" and allow you to "join the Mile High Club without the hassle of going to the airport." Fantastic! Stewardesses, however, are sold separately.
· MotoArt's furniture from recycled plane parts [Boing Boing]
· Mile High Bed [MotoArt]
Core 77 is taking a look at the ingenius work of Benjamin Rollins Caldwell, a South Carolina-based furniture designer who's about to unveil his BNR01110100 011000010110 001001101100 01100101-01 table (nicknamed the "Binary Table 01") at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in NYC in May. It's made entirely of old computer parts—including things that still click, spin, and slide—topped with a piece of glass. We got to looking through the BRC website and stumbled upon another of Caldwell's masterful creations, this time an acyrlic chair filled with 282 mini-bottles of Southern Comfort. (We hear echoes of frat parties off somewhere in the distance...) Anyway, no word whether or not Caldwell raided a minibar for the project, but it's called the Impractically Comfortable Side Chair and it was produced in a limited edition of five. Sad, but the booze has to run out sometime! We've pulled photos of it, as well as that computer table and a bed inspired by organ pipes, for the photogallery above. Drink up!
· "Binary Table 01" by BRC Designs [Core77 via Boing Boing]
· BRC Designs [official site]
· Impractically Comfortable Side Chair [BRC Designs]
· Binary Low Table [BRC Designs]
· Organ Bed [BRC Designs]
