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| IKEA Reassembled: Furniture Series Ignores Instructions Posted: 01 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST What would happen if you bought a bunch of furniture and accessories at IKEA, mixed all the parts together, totally ignored the assembly instructions and went your own way? It might look something like the Lato B series, an IKEA hack from Italian design firm Teste di Legno. The series includes a mini kitchen, cabinet, hanging plant/lamp combo and a shelving unit. IKEA products have long been seen as a springboard for DIY creativity, with some interpretations crazier than others. Putting together a room full of furniture and finding that you have half a dozen extra parts might inspire anyone to try to make use of them. But Lato B takes that one step further by creating entirely new pieces that are visually interesting and actually functional. These pieces required some serious reassembly and thinking outside the picture on the box, with lamps set into nightstands, metal shelves placed on top of kitchen counters and even a mustard bottle used as a leg. "The nice thing about Ikea instructions is that they speak a language without words, that everyone can understand,” the designers say. “All you have to do is keep calm when faced with dozens and dozens of screws, hooks, washers and flat boards of various shapes. After finishing one piece of furniture, we were about to assemble the next when we had the idea of "enriching" the first piece of furniture with some parts of the second, thus inventing a third one.” Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
| Camouflaged Concrete: Hill House Blends Into Landscape Posted: 31 Jan 2014 02:00 PM PST Tucked into a hillside between boulders and camouflaged with stone hues and a green roof, this home on San Juan Island in Washington State almost seems to disappear into the landscape from certain angles. A wall of windows provides expansive views of the scenery, with operable glass panels providing access to an outdoor terrace. Olson Kunding Architects cut out portions of the existing rock at the building site to insert the residence, fitting it in like a puzzle piece and leaving the excavation marks from drills and blasts visible on the stonework of the house. The rock remains a major architectural feature of the interior, and some rooms have raw walls and ceilings, giving them a cave-like feel. The interior and exterior fireplaces are carved from the stone, and even the sink in the master bathroom consists of a series of hollowed-out basins. All of this, along with the location in the Salish Sea between Washignton and British Columbia, give the home the atmosphere of a secret lair. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
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