Martino Gamper

“True ugliness can be a treat.”

" I didn’t make one hundred chairs just for myself or even in an effort to rescue a few hundred unwanted chairs from the streets. The motivation was the methodology: the process of making, of producing and absolutely not striving for the perfect one. This kind of making was very much about restrictions rather than freedom. The restrictions were key: the material, the style or the design of the found chairs and the time available — just a 100 days. Each new chair had to be unique, that’s what kept me working toward the elusive one-hundredth chair." Martino Gamper

If this does not inspire you with it's pure madness and lust for creativity  . . . I don't know what will, wild and wonderful.

Jean Pierre Pincemin

 

 

 

 

John Pierre Pincemin (1944- 2005) was a French artist, a painter and sculptor with no formal art training. He worked at a Renault factory, but would spend great periods of time studying the masters in the Louvre. These sculptures are created from the remains of gutted buildings and wired together in these quilts of texture and colour. (thank you)

31 and Change

'31 & change' is a Brooklyn based furniture set up by Kurt Lenard. It is a company that blends urban and rustic creating unique one of a kind pieces often upcycling old furniture incorporating it into fresh timber.
The benches use three contrasting chairs from different eras to form a new contemporary piece.
For every piece of furniture that 31& Change sell  they plant two trees one for you and one for the company, wonderful.

Danny Kamerath II

"I approach designing and making furniture in simple terms. I try to make things that are elegant and beautiful to look at, pleasing to touch and sturdy to use. I use woods that are appropriate for the piece. With the right strength and structural properties. The right color. Pleasing grain. I try to design with the knowledge that glue will someday fail so the joinery must be able to support the piece and the people who use it. And I work hard to make the scale and proportions of the piece feel right." Danny Kamerath

Danny Kamerath I

Danny Kamerath's explorations into improbable, non-functional pieces of furniture allow him to explore and push ideas past the limits of functionality but feed his imagination and furniture design. (Thank you)

Grant Sonnex

I am always impressed by people who commit to major career changes. Grant Sonnex was a very successful wildlife presenter with the BBC, but decided on a change and committed himself  to retrain with furniture maker David Savage. Now Grant Sonnex is making beautiful bespoke furniture in his own studio in the Cotswold's.
"I make furniture because I love the wood, love to make, and love the fact that what I make becomes part of people’s daily lives." Grant Sonnex

Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby and Michael Anastassiades

 

Designed to meet irrational but real needs, in this case, a fear of alien abduction, this chair is one of a series of three by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby in collaboration with Michael Anastassiades with secret hiding spaces, they are made to blend in with their surroundings, and lined to muffle sounds.