The Royal Family Stools by Ellen Heilmann

This family of stools by German designer Ellen Heilmann can be used as tables or seats.

Here’s some more information from Ellen Heilmann:

The Royal Family consists of three stools which build a modular system. All parts of every stool can be used separately for sitting or as a table. Jointed The Royal Family builds an uniform stool-group, in which everyone is on the one hand visually similar and on the other hand each is individual, like family members usually are.

Material: american nutwood, dark green cotton.

Dimension: 310 mm x 470 mm.

Ridged Roof Furniture by Ainė Bunikytė

Here’s some text from the designer:

Ainė’s Bunikytė’s work is a table served on a ridged roof, it calls for a sip of tea over the old town while promising a romantic adventure. The cause of this object – to present vision, an offer to find a personal space, to dive deep into the dream envisioned by Ainė. Just as far the author believes, nobody has ever made any furniture for an angled rooftop.

The art design project with a series of future proposals and a realized one was presented for her graduation from master studies in Vilnius Academy of Art. This para-functional invitation – is a result of three years of research based on function paradoxes within design objects and designed spaces.

One of the most important element in the project is human’s inherent wish to find one’s own space, to have a secret, to differ, to find such place from which one could watch others but could stay unseen at the same time. The other aspect is a will to be higher, to be raised over the ground – this is the instinct of safety.

The idea was inspired from the author’s enjoyment to spend time on roofs and from admiration of old roofs since childhood.

Like other author’s design projects, such as interior space, the furniture is designed in a non-logical sequence, using paradox as a principle, but still it invites, enhances charm and wish since it comes from a dream.

The roof also becomes para-functional since it gains a new function – it becomes a floor. It’s a paradox that the table and the chairs would be almost functional if they weren’t unreachable. By defying conventional practice the furniture is balancing between the imaginary and the real. In our minds it creates a scenario of using it, but is still unusable. The invitation is even more stimulating since the transparent surfaces don’t hide but show what would wait for us.

A clear contradiction there lets the work to be assigned as a critical design object. The unusual format of presentation enables a wider spread of such practices as art design and especially critical design – not many of such works exceed the borders of meta-culture institutions and reach a wider audience.

The furniture interacting with surrounding architecture and beautiful panorama turns the city into a huge gallery in which the work is exposed.

This visionary furniture is created for Vilnius Oldtown roofs, most of which are pitched, but it becomes an interesting start and a suggestion to form such roof culture in the whole world. This is a proposal for a new conception of public space.

Created as art design object and presented on 3rd July, 2012, encouraged by lots of positiveness and curiosity, this academic project will become usable design work. Patents are pending for this project as well as for other ridged roof furniture units, and we are about to realize the idea in the nearest future.

The table and the chairs may be seen this summer on the roof of Užupis art incubator in Vilnius.

Photography is by Kernius Pauliukonis.

Experimenta One & Two by Alain Gilles

Brussels designer Alain Gilles has created two armchairs combining second-hand objects for non-profit Belgian organisation Les Petits Riens/Spullenhulp.

Skin and Bones chair by Francesco Faccin

Saya chair for Arper by Lievore Altherr Molina

Conceived by spanish designer Lievore Altherr Molina, 'Saya' is a chair that features a bold, striking silhouette, graphic in its appearance.developed for use in both residential and commercial settings, the seating object is made from oak, finished in teak and natural stain.available in white, black, ochre, and three shades of red, 'saya' features a four-leg base which comes in wood or a chrome-finished steel versionwhich makes the design stackable, ideal for large-scale use and storage.

Jacket for Tacchini by Patrick Norguet

Drawing his influences from the fashion world, french designer Patrick Norguet has conceived 'jacket' for italian furniture manufacturer Tacchini.The seating piece features a clean, simple metal frame which is enveloped by a quilted jacket which forms the supporting cushionedback and seat of the design which is accompanied by additional pillows for comfort.

Nóize chairs byEstudio Guto Requena

movie is by Na Laje Filmes

"Brazilian designers Estudio Guto Requena used audio recorded on the streets of São Paulo to distort the shapes of these 3D-printed chairs. The Nóize chairs combine three iconic Brazilian chair designs with the sounds of the Grajau, Tiradentes and Santa Ifigenia areas of the city. The designers distorted computer models of the chairs with the data from the audio recordings. The resulting designs were then sent to Belgium to be 3D-printed. The original chairs were the Oscar by Sergio Rodrigues, the São Paulo by Carlos Motta and the Giraffe by Lina Bo Bardi, Marcelo Ferraz and Marcelo Suzuki."

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Above: Oscar chair by Sérgio Rodrigues

Above: São Paulo chair by Carlos Motta

Above: Giraffe chair by Lina Bo Bardi, Marcelo Ferraz e Marcelo Suzuki

Magazine Rack Chair Saves Space in Small Apartments Read more: Seung Han Lee's Magazine Rack Chair Saves Space in Small Apartments by Seung Han Lee

"Designer Seung Han Lee has developed a clever multifunctional chair that does double duty as a storage rack for magazines. Dubbed the Magazine Rack Chair, the space-saving design features a series of slots that provide the perfect place to put half-read zines, ensuring that you’ll never lose your place. The magazines also provide the chair with a colorful pop that changes with your monthly rotation."

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Antisocial Chair by ADDI AB

The Booth lounge chair was designed for those times when all you need is a little darn privacy! A soft hood surrounds the seated individual to muffle sounds and keep them partially out of sight. The removable hood can also be detached for a more casual and approachable look.

ROCK GARDEN CHAIR BY ADRIEN ROVERO

Adrien Rovero was one of 40 swiss artists, architects and designers invited to transform 40 year old cable cars into new objects.Created for Mountain Climbers, a Swiss cultural and sustainable project benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Switzerland, Rock is the first of 40 projects to be revealed.Rock was premiered at the opening of Rovero's solo show, Landscale, at Lausanne's Musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains (MUDAC).For this project he decided to celebrate the rocking movement of the cable car and thus to create a garden rocking chair.A selection of projects will be revealed at Design Miami in Basel in 2013 and the remaining projects will be revealed in Basel during the fair week in 2014. The exhibiting will be touring in Switzerland in different cities and followed by a Christie's auction, benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Switzerland.