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photo via hno (henk nouwens) flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Holton Rower<\/a> spotted this amazing image on henk nouwens flickr<\/a>. It is titled ‘The Cantilevered Void House’ and accompanied by these words:<\/p>\n

“Standing immobile throughout the day, these vivid objects, with their fantastic shadows on the wall behind them shifting and elongating hour by hour with the sun’s rotation, exuded a kind of darkness for all their color.” Cantilevered structures self-supported over the void. From: The Gormenghast Novels<\/a>\"\".<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who knows what the story is, whether the house is real or fake? Is it a fantastical image from\u00a0The Gormenghast Novels<\/a>\"\"?\u00a0Comments on the flickr page yielded no info* but lead us to a tove of images at The Cantilever Project<\/a>, which got us thinking about cantilevers:\u00a0\u00a0A projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and carries a load at the other end or along its length.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’re smitten with this simple cantilever plywood chair<\/a> (tiny angle braces clearly showing…could we diy this?)<\/p>\n

\"photo:<\/a>
photo: andrew weed via flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That got us mulling cantilevered household items like\u00a0Mies van der Rohe<\/a>‘s “Weissenhof” cantilever chair, whose essential shape has been copied endlessly:<\/p>\n

\"Mies<\/a><\/p>\n

We’re looking around our place, and life, \u00a0through cantilever eyes.<\/p>\n

*UPDATE: a reader reverse-search the image and traced it to this source<\/a>. It is REAL.<\/p>\n

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