Glass tables held up by cherry wood, aluminium clips that hold flowers, cast glass tables, and sofas made from resin-coated balloons. Dezeen’s Jane Englefield selected these six pieces from the design work she saw over the past month.
SHH-001 table by Studio Hagen Hall
London-based Studio Hagen Hall, led by Louis Hagen Hall, has made its first piece of furniture. The sculptural coffee table is a piece of glass furniture with two legs and a heavy glass top, and it requires no mechanical fixings.
Hagen Hall designed the asymmetric table for Pine Heath, a modernist renovation in Hampstead. The house has a corner sofa, which left a gap of negative space that needed a custom table to balance it.
The legs are cherry veneer, and the top is recyclable brown smoked glass. The piece is made to order and draws on the design philosophy of modernist American architect John Lautner.
If the glass tabletop caught your eye, Byredo and Iittala’s Nordic glass collection offers another take on the material, pairing craft with scent.
Exo 01 vase by Flora Lechner
Austrian designer Flora Lechner, who is based in the Netherlands, first drew attention at London’s Max Radford Gallery with aluminium chandeliers that resemble ornate robots. Her new vase applies a similar style to a different kind of object.
The vase is built from aluminium clips held together with stainless steel bolts. Stems slide into the clips, and a base, which can be filled with water, supports the structure.
“Exo 01 approaches the vase more as a support structure than as a container,” Lechner explained. “Inspired by braces used to hold and align parts of the body, the work applies this principle to flowers.”
Cast glass tables with rough, stone-inspired legs
Low-relief table by Anne Holtrop
Dutch architect and designer Anne Holtrop is known for rough-hewn furniture that recalls volcanic craters and mountain ranges. His Low-relief collection takes a different material approach, using cast glass instead of rough-hewn forms.
The tables debuted in Holtrop’s first exhibition with Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery in London.
The unrefined legs of these tables draw on stone reliefs that Holtrop saw in Aswan, Egypt.
Pleats Cabinet No 1 by Didi Ng Wing Yin
Helsinki designer Didi Ng Wing Yin makes pleated wooden furniture from locally sourced Finnish timber. Last week, he presented his first cabinet at Spazio Nobile Gallery in Paris.
The cabinet is made from fir and pine and finished with tung oil. Its pleated door comes from Ng’s combined technique of splitting, brushing and carving the wood.
“I wanted to explore the dynamic contrast between form and texture,” Ng told Dezeen. The pedestal is built from plain architectural beams that keep their natural knots, which gives the light, organic door a heavy base.
OBJ-05 chair by Manu Bañó
PAD London, the collectible design fair, runs each October in Berkley Square in Mayfair. Mexico-based designer Manu Bañó showed a pair of striking patinated brass chairs there.
Each chair is formed from stacked, sculptural slabs of metal. The pieces continue Bañó’s existing range of brass and stainless steel furniture and were shown as part of the Objects with Narratives exhibition.
Metal forms built from stacked slabs have a close cousin in Apparatus’s myth-inspired blown glass and brass lighting, which mixes warm metal with delicate glasswork.
Ballon furniture by Seungjin Yang
South Korean designer Seungjin Yang has spent years making playful furniture that looks like inflated balloons. The forms are built from colourful epoxy resin.
At PAD London, Yang presented his newest balloon-like pieces: a sofa, two armchairs and two stools. He coats real balloons in resin, and each piece takes about two weeks to complete, including testing. The delicate look hides a sturdy build. Yang’s finished pieces are strong enough to sit on.
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Frequently asked questions
What materials are used in the SHH-001 coffee table by Studio Hagen Hall?
The SHH-001 table has cherry veneer legs and a recyclable brown smoked glass top. It has two legs and requires no mechanical fixings.
How is Flora Lechner’s Exo 01 vase constructed?
The Exo 01 vase is built from aluminium clips held together with stainless steel bolts, and stems slide into the clips. A base that can be filled with water supports the structure.
How long does each of Seungjin Yang’s balloon-style furniture pieces take to make?
Each piece takes about two weeks to complete, including testing. Yang coats real balloons in colourful epoxy resin to create the forms.
What wood is used in Didi Ng Wing Yin’s Pleats Cabinet No 1?
The cabinet is made from fir and pine sourced locally in Finland and finished with tung oil. Its pleated door is created by splitting, brushing and carving the wood.
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