The hole table. Made from a 1/4 sheet of birch plywood. Cut from a CNC machine, the perforated sheet acts as a memento of the making process, intertwined with the legs that is has created and that now support it. A thin sheet of toughened glass seals the top, allowing the plywood to be used to its full. The whole thing is flat packable back into the dimensions of the original material, assembly done by just tightening nuts to tension the discs into sturdy legs. The glass sheet simply slots on top of rubber stoppers, meaning that every material can be separated back out. Each element is as visible as possible, making a table that hides nothing about its creation.
Stripe chair. This started out as a way to make use of plywood scraps, turning them on their side to create a repeating pattern. It’s a pretty normal pairing of steel and ply, but the proportions have been chunkified a bit and the materials reconfigured.
Length Series. Chairs made from pine wood of standard lengths, using exactly the full length each time. 2.4m, 3.6m, 4.8m, 6.0m, 7.2m. Stained black, varnished and then cut into, square. Bolted together so can be reassembled into its original lengths.
The Garden Room, designed and built for my family, completed in November this year.
Since I had no experience building and only a handful of weekends, everything was made as simple as possible. Design choices were practical: materials for being cheap, and dimensions to avoid planning permission. What came of that was a pretty straightforward building. A box with a window and a door.
But instead of designing a facade, a sheet of clear acrylic was sealed on, leaving the workings on display. Without pretty patterns to hide behind, the carcass became the decoration itself.
What was left of the building materials was made into furniture inside. A door mat from rubber roof offcuts, lamps from metal cladding, and a chair from timber and acrylic leftovers, to name a few things.
Everything is left out in plain site: no material wasted; no surface hidden; no workings erased.
Thankyou to my dad @mcallisterbrodie and @marcus_lam_@_tomhenly@sammy_doublet_1 for the making help 👷♂️❤️
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