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Wednesday 18 September 2013
Scrap Wood
Scrap Wood Furniture what interests me the most.
Furniture made from many pieces of various kinds of wood, with visible great patina
Furniture made from many pieces of various kinds of wood, with visible great patina
christmas tree
For those who find it hard to throw out and forgot about Christmas tree
Fabien Cappello found a way to keep a bit of christmas atmosphere , namely leave the tree 'for everlasting'
Fabien Cappello found a way to keep a bit of christmas atmosphere , namely leave the tree 'for everlasting'
Nearly 2 million Christmas trees are discarded each holiday season in
London, but one designer has tapped into this waiting source of pine
wood to construct a creative natural series of unique benches, tables,
stools and storage furniture designs.
Their creator, Fabien Cappello, claims that the driving force behind these designs, however, is not sustainability – it is the abundance of a local easy-to-use material. With so much wood available he determined that he could employ extremely simple tools to craft the trunks into tops, branches into legs and pine needles into surfaces.
The concept for these furniture designs was in part inspired by the antique tradition of lashing available logs together to form rafts that would float for months at a time, becoming their own subcultural communities on the water during times when lumber was plentiful. Likewise, with Christmas pine trees simply sitting by the side of the road after the holiday season, there is an opportunity to take what is around and free to craft something creative and new.
Nearly 2 million Christmas trees are discarded each holiday season in
London, but one designer has tapped into this waiting source of pine
wood to construct a creative natural series of unique benches, tables,
stools and storage furniture designs.
Their creator, Fabien Cappello, claims that the driving force behind these designs, however, is not sustainability – it is the abundance of a local easy-to-use material. With so much wood available he determined that he could employ extremely simple tools to craft the trunks into tops, branches into legs and pine needles into surfaces.
The concept for these furniture designs was in part inspired by the antique tradition of lashing available logs together to form rafts that would float for months at a time, becoming their own subcultural communities on the water during times when lumber was plentiful. Likewise, with Christmas pine trees simply sitting by the side of the road after the holiday season, there is an opportunity to take what is around and free to craft something creative and new.
source
http://dornob.com/recycling-pine-trees-into-natural-wood-furniture-products/#axzz2fHOIzPF5
recycling
Furniture collection by Jim Roseau that include home furnishings, shelves, home decorations and coffee tables made of small and large old books and reclaimed wood is a creative way of showing love of nature. Unique furniture design ideas are the reflection and artistic interpretation of the desire to protect forests and save the environment.
Meaningful furniture design by Jim Roseau reminds people that books are made of trees. His unique furniture collection is inspired by the nature and communicate the deep respect for natural materials, like paper and wood, recycling, protecting the environment and eco friendly ideas.
Modern furniture collection is functional, unusual and very decorative. Unique furniture pieces, that are made of recycled natural materials, old books and reclaimed wood, are perfect decor items for eco homes.
The tea pot light
Designed by Ralston & Bau . Each lamp is carefully handcrafted and individually designed to be one of kind.
When the back of chair becoming a cloth hanger...
Are you bored with your skateboard ?
Since skateboards are already designed to take a great deal of wear and tear, support significant loads and weather the world both inside and outdoors, they are a natural choice for reusing as interior or exterior furniture objects. They also come pre-decorated with artful illustrations, creative murals and unique patterns that work just as well in their second lives as in their first – for those whose tastes align with alternative art and culture anyway.
It started with one skateboarding brother asking his furniture-designing sibling to take his old decks and turn them into furniture designs – and the rest was history. Now, DeckStool collects and cuts these worn and broken boards and uses repurposed metal hardware to join them back together in original ways. More than just recycled materials are in play here: many of these creations contain the last surface designs of their kind, preserved now in new forms.
source: dornob.com
Meaningful furniture design by Jim Roseau reminds people that books are made of trees. His unique furniture collection is inspired by the nature and communicate the deep respect for natural materials, like paper and wood, recycling, protecting the environment and eco friendly ideas.
Modern furniture collection is functional, unusual and very decorative. Unique furniture pieces, that are made of recycled natural materials, old books and reclaimed wood, are perfect decor items for eco homes.
The tea pot light
Designed by Ralston & Bau . Each lamp is carefully handcrafted and individually designed to be one of kind.
Not your normal outdoor porch or patio furniture, these grunge-style stools are made of skateboard decks – the kind you ride on, not the type you typically sit on. The DeckStool
designers recycle old board materials into reclaimed wood-and-metal
seats for urban-style lofts (so you can, if you managed to clear up the
confusion, stack these decks on the other kind of deck).
Since skateboards are already designed to take a great deal of wear and tear, support significant loads and weather the world both inside and outdoors, they are a natural choice for reusing as interior or exterior furniture objects. They also come pre-decorated with artful illustrations, creative murals and unique patterns that work just as well in their second lives as in their first – for those whose tastes align with alternative art and culture anyway.
It started with one skateboarding brother asking his furniture-designing sibling to take his old decks and turn them into furniture designs – and the rest was history. Now, DeckStool collects and cuts these worn and broken boards and uses repurposed metal hardware to join them back together in original ways. More than just recycled materials are in play here: many of these creations contain the last surface designs of their kind, preserved now in new forms.
source: dornob.com
Recycling in ART by Zac Freeman
Change nothing for something such interesting and inspiring idea.
Amazing portraits made by Zac Freeman
1999-2010
From Zac's website:
"I started making assemblage artworks of this type in 1999. The artworks are made entirely out of collected junk, found objects, and general trash. I glue the bits of junk to a wooden substrate to form an image, usually faces, which only can be seen at a distance. I was interested in communicating through visual representation in apparent 2-dimensional space and through the actual objects used for the medium in 3-dimensional space. It is very important to me that I incorporate the actual objects into the art as opposed to a picture or rendition of it because it better expresses the intention of the artwork. I feel the junk is more powerful being present. It is an actual thing to be reckoned with that existed in this time and place and carries energy in and of itself."
Freeman's work is definitely my number 1
Amazing portraits made by Zac Freeman
1999-2010
From Zac's website:
"I started making assemblage artworks of this type in 1999. The artworks are made entirely out of collected junk, found objects, and general trash. I glue the bits of junk to a wooden substrate to form an image, usually faces, which only can be seen at a distance. I was interested in communicating through visual representation in apparent 2-dimensional space and through the actual objects used for the medium in 3-dimensional space. It is very important to me that I incorporate the actual objects into the art as opposed to a picture or rendition of it because it better expresses the intention of the artwork. I feel the junk is more powerful being present. It is an actual thing to be reckoned with that existed in this time and place and carries energy in and of itself."
Freeman's work is definitely my number 1
Wolf Vostell
Wolf Vostell built his philosophy around the idea that destruction is all around us and passes through the centuries. He used the term dé-coll/age (meaning air crash), to refer to the process of tearing posters and the use of mobile fragments of reality
inspirations
Marcel Duchamp
Ordinary and not so ordinary ? shocking object that has a huge value.
Fountain is a 1917 work widely attributed to Marcel Duchamp. The scandalous work was a porcelain urinal, which was signed "R.Mutt" and titled Fountain. Submitted for the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in 1917, Fountain was rejected by the committee, even though the rules stated that all works would be accepted from artists who paid the fee. Fountain was displayed and photographed at Alfred Stieglitz’s studio, and the photo published in The Blind Man, but the original has been lost. The work is regarded by some art historians and theorists of the avant-garde, such as Peter Bürger, as a major landmark in 20th-century art. Replicas commissioned by Duchamp in the 1960s are now on display in a number of different museums.
Ordinary and not so ordinary ? shocking object that has a huge value.
Fountain is a 1917 work widely attributed to Marcel Duchamp. The scandalous work was a porcelain urinal, which was signed "R.Mutt" and titled Fountain. Submitted for the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in 1917, Fountain was rejected by the committee, even though the rules stated that all works would be accepted from artists who paid the fee. Fountain was displayed and photographed at Alfred Stieglitz’s studio, and the photo published in The Blind Man, but the original has been lost. The work is regarded by some art historians and theorists of the avant-garde, such as Peter Bürger, as a major landmark in 20th-century art. Replicas commissioned by Duchamp in the 1960s are now on display in a number of different museums.
Revitalization/renovation , making and exchange dialogue between old a new in furniture
Revitalization/renovation , making and exchange to find the dialogue between old and new in furniture
It is
not new to say reusing and recycling are recurrent concepts in
nowadays life.With their use ranging from marketing strategies to
environmental politics, the internet is plenty of platforms ,
tutorials, networks and all sort of their projects related to this
ideas.
The
Wikipedia entry for 'reuse' tell us about the difference between “
The conventional reuse where the item is used again for the same
function, and new-life reuse where it is used for a different
function. In contrast, recycling is the breaking down of the used
items into raw materials which are used to make new items”. Even of
view it also mentions , among the advantages of reusing , that “some
older items were better handcrafted and appreciate in value”.
My
proposal takes this, and other ideas, as the Romantic concept of “
patina” from John Ruskin in consideration to establish its
objective. By using parts of used furniture pieces , which after
being integrated with new materials as part of a new object I am
expecting to generate a dialogue between old/used and new/unused. I
am especially
interested
in the idea of 'value' as used in the sentence from the article
mentioned above
and the potential
exchange of this value between new/pristine and old/historic.By
confronting this concepts in new completed objects I would like to
gain a better understanding of the dynamics of the exchange of value
. How does it add? How does it subtract? This is some of the
questions I am planning to answer.
Another crucial
part of my proposal is to investigate different crafts in order to
understand their suitability in a production process. At this
starting point, based on my personal experience ,observation of
design trends and specially folklore culture of my country, is my understanding that in particular 'one off' and '
small batch' are the production methods that brings more value to its
results and for this reason this are the ones that better fits with
the main idea behind my proposal: the concept of value related to the
fields of contemporary crafts and design.
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