Making of: Thrive Furniture

0 Thrive Home Furnishings – Top Quality Online Manufacturer of Mid-Century Modern Furnishings & More! See how our innovative collection of furniture and chairs are assembled and molded! The mid-century era offered not only great style, but excellent service as well. Stores remembered your name and shook your hand after a purchase. At Thrive Home […]

The Passion of Making – Overgaard & Dyrman

771 With the film ‘The Passion of Making’ Overgaard & Dyrman gives a glimpse of the crafting part of the creation of their Wire Dining Chair, showing the process, complexity and passion behind their debut furniture collection, the Wire Collection. A collection inspired by traditional saddle making techniques and metal work combined with the use […]

Mez Works | Handcrafted Furniture

7 Mez Works is a small business owned and operated by my good friend Terren Gomez, in South Lake Tahoe, California. There, in a small warehouse, he builds handcrafted furniture using salvaged material, showcasing the tremendous character of weather beaten timber and dead standing trees. The work he does is a craft, if not an […]

Silhouette Chair, Extraordinary Furniture by LINLEY

9 LINLEY, taking inspiration from a traditional wing back chair and the creations designed by the Danish genius Hans Wegner, have created The Silhouette Chair. Organic and functional, it is strikingly crafted from a single copper panel, which has been individually rolled and hammered. This age-old technique, used by coachbuilders in the restoration and customisation […]

Cool Hunting Video: Nakashima

313 In a secluded part of the quaint town of New Hope, PA, we came upon the nearly 70-year-old property of the Nakashima furniture company. The Nakashima’s nine-acres of land houses every stage of the production process: From two massive lumber sheds, to the design studio, to the several workshops dedicated to the meticulous construction […]

PORTRAIT OF A METAL WORKER

2762 This short profile film on Nicholas DiChiara is the second of a series of three mini-documentaries that I took as a personal project. Nicholas is a talented metal artist from Philadelphia, from his small shop in Fishtown he makes beautiful custom made furniture, sculptures and stylish lighting fixtures designed and built with a modern […]

Ubuntu: Sound Resonating Furniture

1 Ubuntu: Sound Resonating Furniture Sound harnesses the ability to communicate celebration, movement, emotion and creativity. But most importantly, sound holds the ability to unite. To unite people, places and generations that have never met; To unite cultures and embrace diversity. Story captured by: Lazarus Productions, http://lazarusproductions.ca/ Special Thanks to: OGA Design Shop, http://www.ogadesign.com/ More […]

The Making Of–10º Step Stool

53 Filmmaker Paul Rogers tells a story about the process of making a 10º Step Stool, a piece of furniture designed by Jarrod Beglinger of The Office for Lost Objects™ and produced by Paul Morrison of The Wood Cycle. While showing much of the production process, Rogers also weaves in the particular passions and motivations […]

Meet Nic Parnell – Designer at The Living Furniture Project

3 www.thelivingfurnitureproject.org.uk If you’re interested to commission Nic to design your furniture, drop us an email alastair@thelivingfurnitureproject.org.uk. Thank you! ABOUT THE LIVING FURNITURE PROJECT Based in our workshop just off Brick Lane, we employ and train homeless Londoners to make beautiful bespoke furniture. We are dedicated to sustainability – upcycling old unwanted furniture or working […]

Meet Sarah Baulch – Designer at The Living Furniture Project

1 Meet Sarah Baulch – one of the designers at The Living Furniture Project. thelivingfurnitureproject.org.uk If you’re interested to commission Sarah to design your furniture, drop us an email alastair@thelivingfurnitureproject.org.uk. Thank you! ABOUT THE LIVING FURNITURE PROJECT Based in our workshop just off Brick Lane, we employ and train homeless Londoners to make beautiful bespoke […]