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Slatwork Facade Provides Visual Interest & Privacy Shade

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 10:00 AM PDT

In renovating an historic bungalow home, the clients and their architect wanted to set apart old from new and also needed to provide some kind of a screen for the master bedroom – this clever solution tackles both problems while adding some personality in the process.

Though they may look decorative, these slanted wooden beams introduced by designers Rios Clementi Hale Studios (images by Undine Pröhl) are actually structural as well, stabilizing the mostly-glass volume they surround.

In the context of the rest of the house, the underlying volume fits into the building while the raw-wood components also set it apart, making it feel like a kind of tree house retreat attached to a more conventional home.

Outside, the slats taper as the facade treatment wraps toward the upper deck and interior faces of the house. Inside, the slats provide shade and a sense of separation, but also create dynamic and shifting shadows and tie into the plywood used throughout the interior of the home.

    

Tiptoe Stool: Five-Legged Furniture Balances on Three Legs

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Somewhere between a concept design and practical proposal sits this stool, perched perpetually (yet variably) on just three of five possible points of contact.

It is in some sense a play on the principle that a three-legged stool is balanced by default, but it has pragmatic potential as well. With an actual seat on top, you could, for instance, rock it around and lean in different directions as desired.

And yet, while potentially always more stable than a four-legged chair, there is a visual imbalance that keeps the user on edge, because some portion of the piece is always off the ground, appearing precarious.

Martin Vallin is a Danish furniture and architectural designer who enjoys these kinds of experiments and often hides complex ideas in simple wood forms. He has exhibited this and other pieces in Stockholm and Milan.

    

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