In the desert of West Texas lies Marfa, a picturesque town dedicated to the design style and legacy of modern artist Donald Judd. While visiting last summer, I fell in love with the minimal, ...
This week, I’ll show you how to make DIY modern plywood chairs from a single sheet of Baltic birch plywood. I built two chairs as part of the Modern Maker Podcast’s Rockler Plywood Challenge, designed ...
There was something of the occult in the way people talked about plywood. Take the Eameses, who called their plywood-molding apparatus the “Kazam!” machine or the “magic box.” Making beautiful, ...
The Isokon Furniture Company is reissuing a bent plywood armchair designed by Marcel Breuer 80 years ago. Featuring simple storage spaces within its bent plywood arms, the chair capitalized on a then ...
As marriages go, the one between Italian maestro Joe Colombo and manufacturer Kartell was a match made in design heaven. Colombo’s first great piece–the 4801, a low-slung chair made of three pieces of ...
Counterpoise is a plywood chair whose shape embodies the idea of interplay: it is comprised of two wooden parts that balance each other. Taken separately, each part would be unsteady, but taken ...
Showcased as part of our Dezeen x The Mindcraft Project 2021 collaboration, Chair 02 shows young Danish studio Archival Studies taking an architectural approach to furniture design. Archival Studies ...
East London design studio Blond has offered a window into the process behind its “Peel Chair”, which sees a single piece of plywood transformed into a Marcel Breuer-inspired seat. The studio, led by ...
Christopher Wilk, curator of a new exhibition dedicated to the eclectic history of plywood at the London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, is singing the material’s praises. “It really is strong and ...
Christopher Wilk, curator of a new exhibition dedicated to the eclectic history of plywood at the London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, is singing the material’s praises. “It really is strong and ...