MetaFilter posts tagged with architecture and furniture

Funky Furniture

ninazer0 — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:36:30 -0800

The Obselisk. The bastard child of a Mensa quiz and rattan furniture. Getting apart is probably ok, but I don't want to put it back together - particularly after drinky-poo's. But certainly a talking point - particularly at $9,890 . Via

A title's pointless. Who wouldn't click on a link called that?

dobbs — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:47:30 -0800

Architecture and the Velvet Fist of Happiness - click 'view the book" in the top left. {Flash, slight sound, NSFW}

Gentlemen take polaroids

tellurian — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:27:31 -0800

Carlo Mollino [Polaroids section NSFW] A student of the occult, he was an Architect, Designer, race car enthusiast and photographer [NSFW]

Welcome to EUROBAD '74

atomicmedia — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:09:26 -0800

Welcome to EUROBAD '74, an exhibition of Europe's worst interiors of 1974.

The work of Charles and Ray Eames

carter — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:22:09 -0800

Charles Eames (1907-78) and Ray Eames (1912-88) gave shape to America's twentieth century. Their lives and work represented the nation's defining social movements: the West Coast's coming-of-age, the economy's shift from making goods to the producing information, and the global expansion of American culture. This Library of Congress exhibit outlines major themes of the Eames' life and voluminous works, including architecture, furniture, and the film Powers of Ten. It is wonderfully illustrated with a r t i f a c t s, p h o t o s of their life and work, and examples from the Eames' collection of 350,000 s l i d e s.

Modern Furniture Design

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:59:33 -0800

Is This All There Is To Modern Design? Although Design Within Reach is a commercial website, it's well put together, with interesting features that provide biographies and a a potted history of modern furniture design. However, like the plethora of coffee-table books on the subject, the uncomfortable (!) feeling remains that it crystalizes the accepted and the historical - the so-called modern classics - rather than engage with what is truly contemporary. This is, after all, highly traditional modernism and post-modernism. And it's rife. Where is the avant-garde? Is there one on view to ordinary mortals? You end up feeling that the truly new designs - this century's, after all - are being swept under the carpet, awaiting some boring committee process of consensus and approval.

The Phantasy Landscapes of Verner Panton

snez — Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:44:19 -0800

Verner Panton, a fantastic Danish architect and designer known for his wild interiors and furniture. “Most people spend their lives housing in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours.” He definitely was not afraid. Tak skal du have, Verner!