chair – Product by Process

Discarded Wood-Shavings chair

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“It’s no surprise to learn that hardwood furniture factories aren’t the most sustainable of operations. But it is a shock to hear just how wasteful. According to two students at London’s Royal College of Art, as much as 80% of the timber used in the average factory ends up in the trash, in the form of wood chips and shavings. So for every chair produced, nearly the same amount of wood ends up discarded. Marjan van Aubel and Jamie Shaw see no reason for the waste. As part of a group…

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The Smoke Chair

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Video production by: New Document / Gwenael LEWIS Sound Track: What I want (instrumental) / Another Cynthia Moooi products: Smoke Chair by Maarten Baas bit.ly/wv50Bo How the beauty and the character of burned wood is captured in Smoke Chair? Smoke chair latest video reveals the astonishing process that makes Smoke Series by Maarten Baas for Moooi a unique sensation when sitting on burned furniture. Furniture finished with fire, making each of the Smoke pieces a unique work of art. Enjoy and get inspired!

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whyrymer atomic series n1

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check out the process behind whyrymer furniture collection from designer brandon Morrison

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Aeron Chair by Herman Miller

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“The process is as important as the results: It’s the individual employees on the line that are suggesting these improvements. At Herman Miller, they average 1,200 “plan-do-check acts”–that is, little proposed changes to the assembly process–ever year. “The biggest thing is to empower people to change the work in ways that matter to them,” says Eric VanDam, Herman Miller’s director of operations in seating” from fast co design: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669397/an-american-made-miracle-how-an-aeron-chair-gets-built-every-17-seconds picture and video by Drew Anthony Smith/Fast Company

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Thonet Nr 14

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Iconic Thonet Number 14 , process and full story of an historic product also known as the bistro chair that has become one of the best-selling chairs ever. made.

Making of M3 Chair by Thomas Feichtner

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On the occasion of the Vienna Design Week 2011 the Neue Wiener Werkstätte will be showing an installation featuring the M3 Chair developed specifically for this exhibition by Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner. This unique object will be juxtaposed with the mass-produced FX10 Lounge Chair, an earlier work by Feichtner which has since become a classic of Austrian design. While the two pieces of furniture share a basic structure that is geometric in character, the M3 chair differs from the closed-body lounge chair by virtue of its open wooden cantilever construction.…

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Discarded Wood-Shavings chair

The Smoke Chair

whyrymer atomic series n1

Aeron Chair by Herman Miller

Thonet Nr 14

Making of M3 Chair by Thomas Feichtner

whyrhymer atomik chair

David Trubridge Nananu Chair

Eames Lounge and ottoman