The massive The Art of Things: Product Design since 1945 surveys all kind of objects that we use in our lives, as well as their placement in the bigger picture, in time and place. Our quick run through a pdf we found yielded a number of useful ideas:
Read Morea very pallet apartment: beds, sofas, side table, tabletop
Architects SMLXL Studio seems to have a real THING for shipping pallets, which they’ve used all through a tiny two story apartment in Prague. In many cases, it seems they took they pallets apart and reconfigured their components: thick blocks and slats to custom make furniture the exact size they wanted. Pallet has clearly become…
Read Moreminimalist shipping pallet daybeds and sofas
When we wander around the city and see a discarded shipping pallet on the street, we mentally embrace its instant and deeply pleasurable design challenge: What could we make with this? Lately, we’ve seen them cleverly used as day beds, with minimal work on the pallet itself, unless you feel like finishing or painting them.…
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