new company, new blog

BILT furniture, the design collaborative I have started with three friends in Providence, has a new blog: www.biltfurniture.wordpress.com

this is what we're all about:

BILT is a design collaborative founded by four recent graduates of Brown University. Our design background is diverse, each of us having worked in a variety of media, on a range of scales, and with different intentions: industrial design, theatre, architecture, furniture, and sculpture. Working on commission, we respond to the individual needs of clients and consider their input from the drawing board to the finished product. Our work reflects a commitment to formal and conceptual innovation paired with high quality fabrication.

we are :
Alex Malkin
Miles Fujiki
Pete Fallon
Peter Scheidt

midterm crit

both sarah and miles have photos up from the midterm crit - thank you. they're great.

stolen from sarah

sarah linked to this guy's website on her blog. some of his work is really amazing.



i especially like some of the patterning he creates through layering unexpected materials in unexpected ways.






even his plywood furniture is elegant.

tension furniture

i am looking for furniture that uses tension cables as a way to add to its structural integrity as a jump off point for my own piece. i will be posting my findings. for now there is this:

i stumbled on some interesting things on this blog --

click through.

an infinity bookshelf:



and others:

mobius bench

this is vito acconci's "mobius bench" - a continuous surface that forms both the interior and exterior. or i guess just collapses both terms entirely.



to be honest it doesn't look too comfortable (note awkwardly dangling legs) but it's still a pretty cool form.

some things i've made

this is a modular bedside table/bookshelf out of steel that i made in "lines in space":