JOHN KALOUSTIAN - Detroit Based Furniture Designer

Kaloustian earned his BFA from the College for Creative Studies. It was during college that his professional experience began with designing corporate aircraft interiors for Rockwell International. After graduating he began as a member of the Steelcase design staff. Just over a year later he established his independent design consulting practice, where he has designed contract furnishings, including seating and systems furnishings for companies such as Bernhardt Design, Harter, Haworth, Herman Miller, KI, Steelcase and Coalesse.

http://bernhardtdesign.com/products/avenue/index.html

http://www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/Faculty/1471/Kaloustian/

Concrete Furniture & Lighting - Tim Mackerodt (Germany)

German designer Tim Mackerodt’s Falt.Serie features a suspension lamp that has been produced using fiber-reinforced concrete that has been rolled out and manually folded on flexible molds.

http://www.timmackerodt.de/projects/faltserie

This is something I have seen examples of but I have never quite been ok with as furniture. The supporting part is all inverted screws...

This is something that reminds me of some of the designs in our class. A lounge type seat that seems a bit out of the ordinary.

This is something that I was a bit inspired by when seeing fiber optics in furniture for the first time.



http://www.kubodo.com/2011/01/23/innovative-furniture-design-disco-chair-by-kiwi-pom/

I found this cool sofa design today. Seems like a neat dual purpose design.





http://www.roomidea.net/furniture-ideas/innovative-v-two-sofa-furniture-by-designjoo/

Salone Del Mobile

image gallery 1:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151380979846818.1073741921.274138756817&type=1

image gallery 2:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151381016751818.1073741922.274138756817&type=1

With the User in Mind - Ergonomic Laptop Table

Marc Tran - Industrial Designer from France
http://www.coroflot.com/marctran/Cinna-Contest-2012-Biuro

Charlotte Perriand

Check out Alana's post about furniture by women.

Tokyo lounge chair, 1954

Sold at action for $36,000. Odd fact, Jean Prouvé's

daughter, Simone, designed the upholstery.

Chen Min

His website

Bending Ply Molds

What the what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOIlV9IJrg8


The company is called curvomatic (haha). Is it worth it?
http://www.curvomatic.com/

Detroit Furniture Design

Hunt & Noyer Woodworks (located in Ponyride)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hunt-Noyer-Woodworks/124917301017631

I just love the joinery detail on this drawer. The shelf is otherwise pretty uninteresting but these would be great joints to accentuate. 

Zig Zag Coffee Table (repurposed furniture)

Untitled (repurposed furniture)

Dickinson By Design

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dickinson-By-Design/102666581049

This is beautiful. I love that they used structural support to look like a kite. I'm always a fan of playing up details so they don't look half-assed.

Sling Coffee/End Table: DbD original. 100% recycled.
Materials used: Bowling Alley Flooring (Melrose Bowling Alley Nashville TN), Reclaimed Walnut (Paul's Wood Nashville, TN), Metal Bases (nic premoe)

Furniture by Women

Here's a link to an interesting article I read about a show called "Furniture by Women":

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/14/garden/furniture-by-women-on-exhibit.html

and on that note, an article about Charlotte Perriand:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/-last-week-we-discussed-98469

And then there's this: The Ventaglio 511 Table...probably one of my favorite pieces of all time.

Leon Averbukh

Dean Clancy

Wyatt Deering

Matt Dery

Pooja Desai

Kevin Dunnell

David Eppig

Anna Fisher

Betsy Garter

Jenna Guswiler

Dillon Helfers

Alana Hoey