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Design Wee

Design Wee featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Cavalletta

Cavalletta is a high stool designed for residential and commercial use in bars and kitchen balconies. It is suitable for different balcony heights and decoration styles. Its wooden seat is CNC sculpted into an ergonomic shape to enhance comfort. The beauty of natural wood is another feature that is highlighted in this project as the client is well known for its high quality wood products. The overall design of the Cavalletta stool emphasizes its lightness, contemporary style and comfort.

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Flow

Flow Collection studies perspective of abstract brushstrokes. it is inspired by the elegance fragile yet forever glass medium. The process ensures that every vessel has unique color play that mimic the dance of abstract impression. Every vessel has their own breath that is a methaphor for a soul of a piece that makes it more than mere interior object.

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Siro

Design should be understandable, sensitive and necessary. It's terrific how a road sign is readable by everyone or how an object recalls of a particular period of people life. Solving and interpreting without leaving behind respect for environment: this is good design with hope to reconnect human beings to nature. Siro is a table lamp, composed by a hemisphere and a disc, unleashing a radiant light toward the inside. When observed from the front, the lamp seems to consist of two bi-dimensional shapes, creating an illusion of perfect equilibrium.

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Transparent

Design inspiration is from the significant philosophy of East Asian culture which is called Zen. Zen has a saying that empty is there, not empty is not there. the concept was melted into this series of design, the overall shape of the idea of round, simple, smooth, empty, using ofrosted plexiglass to create a fine water feel, increasing the appreciation and safety of furniture. This furniture suits for a variety of using environments.

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Ring

Reminiscent of Vitruvian Man by Da Vinci, which is a building block for modern and ancient civilization, and a standard of beauty across all disciplines to this day. The bookshelf functions as a keeper of knowledge. The shelving is a silhouette of Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man carrying out a rhythm orchestrated by the copper rods. Ring is a statement piece that interacts with both the space and the user. It can be placed against a wall or beautifully separate two spaces in a subtle way.

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Plastic Recurrence

Plastic Recurrence is a series of benches designed for a district town hall in Hong Kong, by using recycled household plastic waste from the same district. HIR studio recycled the plastic bottles in the riverside town, processed, and remolded them into new public benches, before bringing them back into the local town hall for everyone to enjoy. The series were made of only two typical modules assembled in varied lengths and rotations. Tactile textures and imperfect color of recycled plastic render each bench unique. What is taken from the community is used back in the community.

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