Joo Hyung Park II

"The touch of my hands and objects is of significant value in my practice. I learn whilst I make objects and the ideas get developed together with my hands. I remember the joyful moment of my hands and the pieces together, and the control of my work is always on my hands. With the two sets of my work, jewellery and cutlery, my desire is to share how I use my hands. My hands blow new life to material as a piece of jewellery with the simple act of pushing through, and they capture the very moment of using old cutlery to deliver food to our mouth, which is completing its duty." Joo Hyung Park.

Joo Hyung Park I

South Korean designer Joo Hyung Park works in precious metal, plastic and wood, here she has made a series of works carving ribbons of wood, to create jewelry, like giant curves of peeled apple or orange.

Hattern

South Korean design studio Hattern uses timber off cuts to make furniture and wood products called "PROJECT ZERO PER". By jigsawing pieces of cut timber together but also often by blending timbers with resin they use up timber that was a waste product into beautifully designed products.

Seung Yong Song II

This would be an amazing design for combating SAD. Seung Yong Song designed it as a den.
"I have memories that I made a den somewhere in my house as a child- Under the
table, in the wardrobe, and in the attic- I created my own base and felt
relieved as if I avoided enemies that were actually non-existent. My own secret
space at the moment which was comfortable and protected, better than a huge
mansion, the coziness of the space like a bird's nest isn't what we dream
basically?"

Seung Yong Song I

"I climb on a chair. I put books on a ladder. If things are freed from their own unique functions, we might agonize over how to use this object." Seung Yong Song
I think the theory behind this is fantastic, to free objects from the constraints of their classification and actually design them to fulfill the true potential of their usage.