BALANCE STOOL BY DARRYL AGAWIN

Canadian designer Darryl Agawin helps user to exercise core muscles while they sat in front of their desk. The stool is an extension of a furniture range Agawin designed to offer busy workers the chance to exercise in the office.

The Balance Stool is made of wood reclaimed from ash trees destroyed by pests such as the emerald ash borer. Each element of the stool is made using computer numerically controlled (CNC) techniques and the legs are then friction fitted into holes in the underside of the seat.The wood is finished with a traditional Danish technique in which pure soap flakes are made into a paste with hot water and applied to the surface of the furniture.



"The concept behind the original No, Sweat! Workspace Workout furniture collection is to help promote an active lifestyle in the work environment.It's not only about finding the time for exercise, but about incorporating it in your daily routines, from taking the stairs, going for a walk and, with the Balance Stool, engaging and strengthening your core muscles in a passive activity. This activity becomes a part of your life, promoting a healthier lifestyle without you realising it." the designer told

DISCOMFORT CHAIR BY GABRIEL F & TIAGO VOLPATO

Get Lost Collection by Gabriel F & Tiago Volpato dissects the feeling of being lost, with four objects representing Inadequacy (vessel), discomfort (lamp/chair), aimlessness (table), and nostalgia (fabric dispenser).
In a variety of materials, including textiles, Eucalyptus wood, concrete, plastic and porcelain. Presented as part of Ventura Hive, Milan Design Week 2014.

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MALENA CHAIR BY ZORAN JEDREJCIC

Simple sitting from Zoran Jedrejcic, multiple Red Dot Award and IF design award winner.The Malena is solid wood chair with clean line. Named in Croatian "Little Darling". This great product is available in oak, maple, apple, cherry, walnut with a variety of finishes and fabric or leather in a wide range of colors.  

Cobrina wooden furniture collection by Torafu Architects

As always i am happy to see furniture collections like this one, made by the Japanese Studio Torafu Architects. They has designed small and lightweight products made of oak, the name Cobrina derives from the Japanese expression "Coburi-na" which is used to described small and undersized items. The whole nine pieces surfaces and legs are made in rounded edges. One functional and great looking collection, good job!  

108 years of Herman Miller in 108 seconds

108 years of Herman Miller in 108 seconds from Christian Borstlap on Vimeo.

New products from Arper at Clerkenwell Design Week

The new collection of furniture by Arper will be on show at the Italian design brand's London showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week from 21 to 23 May.

The Aava chairs by Finnish designer Antti Kotilainen. Milled from wood and covered in birch, oak, walnut or beech veneer, it comes with legs in wood or chrome, or a sled base.

Two coat racks by Lievore Altherr Molina have been added to the range: Song with eight pivoting arms shaped like musical notes, and Wing with pivoting arms gently curving upwards towards their tips.

Wing by Lievore Altherr Molina

Song by Lievore Altherr Molina, 2013

Molina has also contributed new cushions to the range and there are updates to colours and finishes on the Saya chair, Catifa 46 and 53 chairs, and Dizzie tables.

Pillows by Lievore Altherr Molina

Triangular series of Ply tables and stools by Lievore Altherr Molina

LONDON BABY MIMICRY CHAIRS BY NENDO

Sneak a peek to the London Design Festival which celebrates its 10th year. The beginning is on September 14. Take a look at one remarkable installation from Mimicry Chairs at the V&A. Rendering © Nendo. Discover the best shows as the week goes on on Dezeen. 

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Ice Cube celebrates Charles and Ray Eames

To celebrate the city-wide museum show Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980, iconic west coast rapper Ice Cube takes a few moments to celebrate the life and work of legendary designers Charles and Ray Eames. Touring the home of Charles and Ray Eames, known as Case Study No. 8, Ice Cube explains how hip-hop mirrors the couple’s beautifully designed home as both make use of prefabricated pieces that fit together to form a whole. Who said rappers can’t like high end design?

La Tour Moinat by 2b Architectes

Lausanne studio 2b Architectes have renovated a 16th century tower in Echandens, Switzerland, by inserting a three-storey larch box.The addition to La Tour Moinat extends from the ground floor to the attic, containing circulation and storage space for the home.The renovation also includes the addition of living spaces in the attic.

A new “piece of furniture” now occupies the tower very much like a “parasite”. It determines at one and the same time the functional organisation of the room layout, the circulation between levels, and the new floor of the attic, which has been lowered to provide 30m2 of additional living space.

This object, which is both a structure in its own right and an integral part of the tower, occupies the entire interior of the original stone building from the entrance to the new space created beneath the rafters.

PASSIVE HOUSE by Franklin Azzi Architecture

The house is surrounded by two extensions of the canvas that will be rooms or lounges summer. The extension consists of wood, canvas covers a camouflage of the Cuban Army. Above boxes of tissues is a wooden terrace overlooking the valley. Slab of the house is on extensions to the left and right and will include a heated floor and the external industrial sockets.

This slab, which will include intelligent most of the electricity grid and fluid will articulate the house In front of the house is located at a bunker of concrete to make an office / room alone. At the request of the owner this vacation will not be connected to water and EDF. The project therefore meets the requirements of High Environmental Quality's most restrictive, in particular as regards the recovery of rainwater, the use of solar energy (hybrid) and geothermal energy, reduction of raw material by optimizing the efforts to structure.

The elements of this structure, the frame and holes in wood and require no metal yoke. Shipyard dry with only the assembly is done on site and that all recyclable materials from a distance of 100km. Heating wood, vegetable fibers to the walls and insulation, natural ventilation, etc.