Never leave home without your luxury bedding. Egyptian cotton sheets and pillow with a Zoepritz Microstar Blanket. The blanket is perfect for summer heat, while affording you the comfort you demand.
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The Veneto Furniture at Design Within Reach is made from sustainable teak with an innovative hand-woven fiber called WaProLace®
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- A Chippendale Dining Table and Georgian Sideboard are updated by adding animal print fabric to the dining chairs and contemporary art and accessories.
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Writting Desk by Jiddo Schaaf
I made this small writting desk last year as part of my degree at the ANU School of Art. The brief stated we needed to make a ‘working surface with a draw’. I found the exercise was more about how far you can stretch a piece of wood rather than carcase and draw construction. Designed for occasional use with just enough space for a few pieces of paper and a laptop, with its straight line design it will sink into the background when not in use. Visual appeal comes from the grain of the timber rather than the design, by doing this the table will fit more readily into any décor. The drawers are also hidden or this reason.
Detail of corner
The material for this desk, silky oak (grevillea robusta), was salvaged from a building lot near my house, the tree was destined to become firewood (what a waste), but was giving to me and my father when we told them we were into fine furniture and wood turning. The timber was cut into boards on the bandsaw at home and left to dry for a couple of years.
With all three draws out
The limited amount of material restricted the size of the table and how it was constructed. The top and sides are veneered; the top onto HMR chipboard with false hoop pine lippings, the sides onto Russian birch ply. The draw bottoms are made from silky oak from an old cabinet which was giving to me by a family acquaintance. The carcase bottoms are made from Fire Wheel Tree (white bull oak) which were suffering the ill effects of long storage, blue stain and pin-hole borer, and the useable parts needed to be used up. Some of the longer sections in the carcase are veneered wheel tree as I just didn’t have enough material.
Underside of desk
The table has been constructed in the traditional method using a combination of mortise and tenons, dovetails and rebates with the joints cut by both hand and machine. The dovetails on the draws are hand cut. Rock maple has been inlayed into the carcase and laminated onto the bottom of the draws as a harder wearing surface for the draws to run on.
Full technical drawings have been made to assist in reproduction and improvements on the design.
The pice is for sale at gallery in Australia. Feel free to contact me for anymore inforamtion.
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This video isn’t new, it’s from about a year ago, but in celebration of having successfully assembled all my new IKEA furniture (which is an adventure in patience and commitment and, well, splinters), I thought I’d post this. Mark Malkoff, a writer and filmmaker, lived in IKEA for a week and made a film about it. It’s pretty hysterical.
Consumerism materialism attachment blah blah blah. I don’t know if he is making any deep statements about anything. Whatever. It’s just funny.
You can watch the rest of his IKEA videos here. I especially love the security guard reading him bedtime stories.
This guy also attempted to visit EVERY Starbucks in Manhattan in a 24 hour period. It turns out (at the time of his project) there were 171 of them. And HE DID IT!
Anyone else been to the IKEA in Red Hook, yet? I swear to God, I’m just going to buy real furniture next time…real furniture with real names…
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