Adult legos edition
>>18705718Recently I've been coming across aluminum extrusion furniture on marketplace. It's quite tempting because industrial-type furniture is very trendy at the moment, the idea of building custom spec furniture is extremely appealing/satisfying, and the parts are seemingly easy enough to get your hands on. For example, 4040 or 4080 aluminum extrusion is a couple of hundred bucks for a set on Amazon. You get all the parts you need for a dining table for maybe 800 USD sans top which puts it in the same range as an Eiermann table or something similar, only you can make yours look like a Judd, or whatever you want really.
>>18705723The other option that's quite appealing is what I've seen called optical rail. It's considerably more expensive for the hardware (the rail isn't too bad), but it offers far more customization options as far as I can tell. The only thing I haven;t figured out is the diameter to weight considerations. I don't want to build a table only for it to collapse right?
>>18705727All of this stuff seems to stem from ongoing trends in design that emphasize the production process, and are rooted in a 'diy' mentality which largely seems to fulfill two roles. 1. It's cost-cutting on the producers who can flat-pack and not preassemble furniture for customers, and 2. a greater demand for customization or at least pseudo-customization on the part of consumers. Only, rather than your grandfather building a house with his two hands, it's white-collar knowledge workers who are adept at navigating Chinese vendors/pinterest/Adobe Creative Suite, planning out small-scale furniture for their apartments. Not sure about the implications for austere industrial furniture and a return to reduction of form, and 'simple materials' like brushed steel and so on mean for society at large, but I imagine a lot of it has to do with a rejection of obvious displays of luxury and premium goods.(ironic since this stuff is still way pricier than any ikea product)
All of the crap in this thread so far is ugly as fuck. Looks like an old run down public high school teacher lounge with furniture that was the cheapest thing available 37 years ago and smells like musty carpet and cigarettes, it's sterile, utilitarian, soulless and unwelcoming.
>>18705813So post something you like
I will.
>>18705718It's Lego or Lego bricks, Lego pieces. Not Legos.>>18705718
>>18705734hey NAPOLEON, i'm looking for a couch that is both an intersting design piece (whether a furniture design classic or something more under the radar) and comfortable enough that you could spent a good night's sleep on it (though not a daybed). i've crashed on a carmaleonda, which i quite enjoy visually, but the sleep was horrible. didn't even attempt to sleep on the togo 3 seater a friend had because it's impossible to lie down on it comfortably. another friend's cassina LC5 was fine, but i'm wondering if you had any thoughts.
>>18705841Thank you for contributing! >>18705847Great catch>>18705894A few considerations:I am 6 ft 4 in (1.95 m), so most couches simply are not long enough for me; this is not an area I am intimately familiar with. I have no idea what your budget is, so I will recommend some fuck off retarded expensive ones and leave you to find the derivatives and knockoffsI'll focus mainly on couches you can buy without going to an auction house.My mind first went to Molteni, because I know they have nice modular couch systems. Edmond by Christophe Delcourt (his fabrics are especially really, really nice), or really just any of these modularish, large, quasi-chaise-lounge, boucle-comfortable couches in that world. Christophe Delcourt's stuff for his own brand and Collection Particuliere is also fantastic: EKO, ANA, SYD, ORR. Very trendy right now, and every brand in the world has been ripping them off. I saw a boucle chair in IKEA about a month ago, lol.Something low and wide, might be the BO sofa from Piet Boon(lots of cheaper knock-offs, and derivatives of this one), Vincent Van Duysen's Zara Home collection comes to mind as an excellent alternative. If you were looking for something more design classic/MCM, whatever have you, maybe the GE 236(alternatively, the Florence Knoll sofa, but not sure how that one sleeps) in leather, so you have something a little more substantial to sleep on. Something to bridge the design classic with a contemporary feel. You could go Wittmann; Kubus, Constanze, or even the Vuelta if you're into the whole velour, 1920s speakeasy thing, haha. I get the sense that some companies have noticed their customers don't get to bed because a quick look at DWR reveals the HAY mags sectional, which is pretty middle-of-the-road design-wise, but looks like a great night's rest. Another option, depending on your taste, the Roché Bobois mahjong sectional, a classic easily recognizable couch you can sleep on.
>>18705841my man went to a sauna and thought to make the entire house look like one
>>18705718This is cool as fuck.
>>18705841I love wood
>>18706150Ma'am saunas are cedar, that is fir
>>18706150I still don't see a problem here.
>>18705841>>18706510https://youtu.be/-ZMz7g_Qotc?t=1668
