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Modern Love
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22/11/2008 7:51 am  

"These pieces have a great DNA of found hardwood and recycled furniture parts. This process is not completely original but the results here have outstanding features, like each chair being unique (dependent on the found parts), the individual parts having a history, precious woods being repurposed, earth friendly design and more. The final chair forms are gorgeous, beautifully designed, and solidly constructed. This series is ongoing and we will keep adding pieces as they are completed." -quoted from the blog I linked below.

Reconstructed vintage, when I think of that phrase, I think of things that have a kitschy/frankensteiny/thriftshopy vibe. The kind of stuff you give a polite but disingenuous smile and a "wow cool", when your friend says "I made this!".

John Booth, I must tip my hat to this gentleman, for THIS is how it should be done:

http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/index.php?s=booth&searchbutton=Go%21


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SDR
 SDR
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22/11/2008 8:53 am  

Oh yes
-- I like those both very much.
The seat "saddle" looks eminently comfortable. The tripod chair makes me smile.


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ChrisG-52
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22/11/2008 10:39 am  

I dig the tripod chair....
I dig the tripod chair. That's pretty cool.


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Gustavo
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25/11/2008 6:22 am  

That's the point!
I like a lot the chairs, the second (tripod) is amazing.
Also the tables are great.
But the-beloved point, it's really great. That's the point!
Sometimes don't accept much this kind of works, because of that,(crafty, etc.), and it's also the perception of the final user.
Here is well applied the idea of Designer as Translator. His translation from old-stuff to final product arrived to a better place than others. Where it's also nice to have in the end that light flavor to recycled, very far in the end that like the strawberry of the cake.
Tables are also great link:
http://www.bookhou.com/furniture-table5.htm


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 SDR
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25/11/2008 7:13 am  

Yes !
The table bench employs my now-favorite joinery: a large glued lap-joint at the legs. And the leg is both elegant and eminently efficient in terms both of structure and of economy of material AND labor.
With no more effort, and even fewer parts, the leg could have been tapered both in side elevation -- if desired -- and in end view, by eliminating the spacer block at the bottom and simply bending the leg halves toward each other -- thus echoing the top construction.


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