If it was up to us, all the best design in the world would be posted within the Parfois Portfolio… But… its not up to us. Stumbling the web we often bump into things worth sharing. The world wide web is so full off great things that will never end up in our portfolio, but which we want the world to see. For this we created our blog. At this moment there 4 of us blogging on a regular basis.Work, studies and social life makes that there are weeks with a lot of posts, and weeks without. But we’ll do our best in bringing you the nicest shit on a acceptable basis.
This blogpost is number 200! Therefore I’m spending it on a close friend of mine.
Bob Segers, Mariane Brants, Wim Segers & Rita Westhovens are Studio Segers. They run a small but blooming design office. One part of the company does graphic design, the other product and furniture design.
This post is about a table they did recently for Cassecroute. They made several models of this table.
If you want you can see the table on belgian television. They use it in the studio for the WK2010. >> Read more
Don’t like all the things shown in this movie, but some are really worth watching. The cloud-machine by Daniel Schulze ‘takes my breath away’.
Young talented designers and students were the focus of this years DMY Youngsters exhibition. Many of the works were quite experimental or research driven resulting in interesting ideas and shapes for these new makers.
Steelcase teamed up with the critically acclaimed company IDEO to design a new chair called the Node Chair. IDEO is known for it qualitatif redesign of almost anything. They started in Palo Alto (California, US) in 1991. Today they are a global company with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich and Shanghai. They are pure problem solvers, and were one of the first to include collaborative brainstorm sessions, prototypes, research and storytelling into their workflows. All under the watching eye of Tim Brown. Steelcase on the other hand, is known for its well designed office furniture. Always very colorful, efficient and handy. Their cooperation with Steelcase thus didn’t came as a surprise.
The chair is aimed at students. It can rotate 360º, making it adaptable to any class set up, wether it is a circle, lines or small groups. The small desk attached to the chair, works well for both left and right handed people. It is large enough to hold books and notes, or your laptop. The whole bottom area can be used to store your bag, which is probably the most convenient solution of them all.
Not really a big fan of the chair itself, but I think the technique he used is great! As part of his final year project at Kunsthochschule Kassel the young German designer Christof Schmidt developed this smart joining technique. The solid wooden elements of the chair are broken to measure and placed into a silicone-mould. Due to its expansion the poured in polyurethane foam infiltrates into every single wooden fibre at the breaking point and connects the pieces soundly. The foam hardens within minutes. >> Read more
I don’t know why, but I’m really into lamps these days. Here’s another great one I found at dailytonic.
This irreducible table lamp was designed by the French designer Guillaume Delvigne. In occasion of the launch of the new lable Spacimen it will be exhibited during this year’s Designers Days in Paris from 9-14 June within the Specimen Editions exhibition at the Terresnuages showrom in 10 rue des Filles du Calvaire.
After our grand opening (thanks for dropping by!!) we have to announce the last weekend of the exhibition. For us it was a success and we hope u all enjoyed it. Some pictures of the opening at read more. Antwerp Astronauts will be back!!
Swedish design collective “Whatswhat” present their collection “Potential Energy”. I really love this lamps, especially the small one. The combination with the concrete and the wood works great. Be sure to click ‘read more’ to view some more pictures and a small movie! >> Read more
One of the things I always keep in mind when I decorate my room, is the screensaver and wallpaper of my Mac. I have a big screen + the screen of my Macbook that have a significant place on my desk. You can’t ignore it when you look at my room, let alone my desk. And instead of disgracefully looking at it like it’s a piece of junk, I find it the most interesting piece of furniture I have. Why? Cause I can change it anytime I want in whatever I want. It could give my room a complete new vibe or a new feeling by just changing the screensaver or the wallpaper.
A few weeks ago, I came across this piece of furniture, it’s a wall concept called ‘Change it!’, developed by Amirkhan Abdurakhmanov. The wall is build out of small squares the have can switch into 3 different colors. Look at it as if it were pixels. This piece of furniture does exactly the same as my screensaver and wallpaper, only on a much bigger scale. Imagine all the fun things you can do with this wall: goodmorning-messages, ‘don’t forget’ notifications, even a twitter feed during a party, or just awesome art from eBoy. You name it, possibilities are endless.
This time the Astronauts have dropped their anchor in Boechout, Centre of the world! Two new astronauts have boarded the ship, setting sail to study destroyed civilizations and existing ones. To take the good and usable parts to build their own civilization. A civilization based on a common endeavor work where persons with different backgrounds, different styles can live together in their spaceship and join them on their way.
With ‘Lean on’ designer Peter van de Water offers a smart solution which doesn’t need to be mounted with hooks or screws and which gets its stability from the weight of the coats. Rubber stoppers avoid the sliding. >> Read more
This blogpost is number 200! Therefore I’m spending it on a close friend of mine.
Not really a big fan of the chair itself, but I think the technique he used is great! As part of his final year project at Kunsthochschule Kassel the young German designer Christof Schmidt developed this smart joining technique. The solid wooden elements of the chair are broken to measure and placed into a silicone-mould. Due to its expansion the poured in polyurethane foam infiltrates into every single wooden fibre at the breaking point and connects the pieces soundly. The foam hardens within minutes. 
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