Here’s what we looked at this week:
This CU11 chair, by Karimoku Furniture, was designed for the elderly to use at entryways. To save space (it’s from Japan), the chair uses the wall as its backrest.
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Royal Caribbean’s bonkers Icon of the Seas is almost 1/4-mile long. It has 20 decks, a 7,600-guest capacity and requires a crew of 2,350 people.
This “Sea Pools” book, by architect Chris Romer-Lee, documents 66 examples of saltwater pools carved out of rock, all around the world.
Image: Anastasia Benjafield
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This Recce Sideboard, by furniture manufacturer Takano Mokkou, is ideal LP record storage furniture. (Though magazines are shown in the photo, it’s sized to hold 12″ records.)
This unusual 18-wheel ATV, by Finnish startup 18 Wheels, was designed not to disturb the terrain.
Romain Thouin, as an Industrial Design student at ENSCI, designed this unusual Branche(r) power strip with botanical influences.
René, by industrial designer Tomoko Azumi, is a less-utilitarian-looking take on the wall-based bike mount.
Sway is a measuring cup for the blind, designed by Xueyu Ji of the Istituto Europeo di Design. However, the concept has a central flaw.
The Taut table, by designer Klemens Grund, uses blind-dovetail wedged tenons to join the stretchers to the legs.
This 3D-printed gizmo makes for an easy DIY tent structure, based on the Polish lavvu.
From Seth Rogen’s Houseplant brand: This Block Table Lighter, “inspired by Bauhaus things,” is an objet d’esign for smoking weed.
In this presentation industrial designer Bob Henshaw, co-founder of Formation Design Group, explains how they use VR for design validation.
