Diagonal dissection of a cube

Nendo's wonderful and imaginative 21400 MM chair evokes a feeling of "why didn't I think of that" or "how did they come up with that?".  A good friend lent me Wucius Wong's wonderful 1976 book Principles of Three-Dimensional Design. In it, I came upon a section titled "Dissection of a cube". The graphic and description of diagonal dissection of a cube made me think of Nendo's wonderful chair, and how it demonstrated this principal so well.

21400 MM chair by Nendo, 2010

MM chair by Nendo, 2010

Principals of Three-Dimensional Design, Wucius Wong, pg.16, 1976



This amazing book is full of great examples of repetitive 3D geometric forms.

Principals of Three-Dimensional Design, Wucius Wong, cover, 1976

Principals of Three-Dimensional Design, Wucius Wong, 1976

Principals of Three-Dimensional Design, Wucius Wong, 1976

Principals of Three-Dimensional Design, Wucius Wong, 1976

What a circus

Launched at the 2010 ICFF, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, the Circus shelves were design by Stephan Burks for Matter.

Colour Blocking

Designer Harry Allen created the Blockade table in 2008 for Umbra. Originally I thought this was a Lego sculpture. Apparently the item, being made of solid wood, was cumbersome and heavy. It's still pretty amazing.

Harry Allen is also responsible for the packaging design of the Marc Jacobs fragrence "Bang".

Newson DSLR

Famed designer Marc Newson has just designed a wonderfully compact Digital SLR camera for Japanese camera maker Pentax. The camera comes with an ultra thin 40mm lens and is available in yellow, black,or silver.

Cocooning

French designer Gael Wuithier created these beautiful wooden pendant lights for her company Woodlabo. These fragile sculptures dangle from above and create wonderful shadows.

Perfeição

It doesn't get much better than this. Portuguese designer Marco Sousa Santos has recently completed a line of furninture for Braca Lisboa. What a wonderful balance of form, raw materials, function, and precision. 

Brutal Design

Île-de-Jésus (aka Laval,Québec, Canada) native Philippe Malouin has created a wonderful suspended light structure "svetko lamp" for his most recent showing of new works at the NextLevel Galerie in Paris. Out of all his past works, I beleive that this pendant is truly Malouin's pièce de resistance.


NOTE: It's now officially official in this era of increased monetary divide that gold is here to stay.