The best idea we found among the design blogs came from designer Fay Toogood’s installation using Ikea products during Milan Design Week. Dig what she did to an inexpensive agave rug.
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Curiously Beautiful: Sheetrock with Metal Stud Wall
We stumbled on this curiously beautiful sheetrock wall at the always illuminating Under the Sun. It appears to be a way an art gallery displayed a show. Sheets of uncut 4 x 8′ sheet rock were nailed to a carefully constructed wall of ordinary sheet rock studs with plenty of space between. Not great for sound…
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A Simple Wood Chair Wrapped and Embellished
To raise funds for Teddy’s Wish charity auction, nineteen of the UK’s leading designers from the field of architecture, design, fashion and graphics have been invited to customise the iconic Ercol Stacking chair, a simple, elegant wooden chair that invites embellishment. We are smitten with Faye Toogood’s iteration, above, wrapped with what looks like white nylon…
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Sheetrock or Plywood Walls With Shapes Cut Out
This installation by American artist Scott Carter is making us view walls as sculpture. Carter cuts out shapes from walls and formed them into furniture, like some living, human-sized puzzle. But we can’t stop mulling the idea of cutting out shapes from plywood, to give interest to walls or partitions.
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faye toogood’s intentional unfinished hole in the wall
After our friend Lisa Morphew took a shovel and demolished the wall separating our living room and bedroom of our soon-to-be-renovated space, we sent a photo of the newly-opened room to our friend Tom Fallon, an interior designer whose given us lots of great ideas over the years. He emailed back: It’s great. Why not…
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