Beta Tank - Taxing Art

http://www.betatank.net/taxing-art.html

I saw someone had blogged a chair by Beta Tank just like this table which reminded me I had seen these people in Basel. A really interesting take on the Art-Design debate. This is a table but once you turn the squares over to make lots of pyramids it loses it's function and is now art. Meaning in Germany initially it would be taxed as a functional object at 19%. Turn the pyramids and it will be taxed 7% as a work of art.

The same is true of this box of hammers/work of art/coffee table. On the way to basel someone on the border will have decided which category this fits into.

Christoph Thetard - R2B2

This is Christoph Thetard's final project at Bauhaus-University Weimar.

Designed to reduce energy use in the kitchen a foot pedal and flywheel power a coffee grinder, food processer and hand blender. Looks like something Brunel would make...

Has other nice work at http://christoph-thetard.de/christoph-thetard.de/Blog-engl/Blog-engl.html

Sylvia Pichler

Nice lamps...

Used to have some of this tape kicking about the flat. Missed opportunity...

Giles Miller - Cardboard Collection

Stuff I'm sure everyone has seen before, but it's news to me...

http://www.gilesmiller.com/

I've spent weeks cutting corrugated cardboard. I hate the stuff! But these are quite nice

KAMKAM - An Furniture

http://www.kam-kam.org/

De-constructable furniture based on the ratios of A-sized paper. I like things that transform...not so keen on the hinges though.

ASAP - Jean Marie Massaud

http://www.massaud.com/site/en/#/works/design/mobilier/8407-asap

Just Saw these

I like being able to see a bit of the structure. I think you are able to rearrange the way the structure slots together to give different sized units. Which is nice...

Estelle Sauvage - Kettle

Incandescent light bulb now banned in France, put to new use by Estelle Sauvage. I was briefly looking at ways of reusing the incandescent light bulbs a couple of years ago as more and more countries ban them. I did not think of this, damn it!

Apparently heats to 90C perfect for tea...

Postler Ferguson

http://www.postlerferguson.com/

Saw these buoy lamps, I love that complex structure and the scale.

Remind me a little of the Studio Job Crane, at least the structure does.
http://www.studiojob.nl/ (total non- website, annoying)

This is also by Postler Ferguson. A model of a concord engine. I like technical drawings, cut-throughs etc so this is interesting. Mammoth task to take on aswel!