This is a concept which has me really excited. Via Treehugger, this London-based store produces all its furniture onsite, using Scandinavian plywood and a big computer controlled milling machine. Named after John Ruskin's book 'Unto this Last', which was published at the height of the Industrial Revolution and advocated a return to individual craftsmanship, it seems kind of ironic that the very machines he railed against have finally enabled the business model he espoused to be revived. I love the idea, but my Inner Cynic can't help wondering how much flexibility there really is in the system - I mean, in principle you could get them to make a shorter table for you, but it's not as if you could go in with your own CAD file and get them to make it, is it? Is it?
Got to admit, though, the furniture is lovely. I particularly covet the Greg Lamp - go have a look!
P.S. Anyone else tried posting via email yet? I posted this via email and had to log in and clean it up - somewhere along the line it had made a fantastic mess of the picture/link combination. And added about a million line breaks.
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There's a very groovy designer furniture shop round the corner from us called Isokon Plus which makes mostly furniture from classic 20th century designs out of laminated wood. They make it all on site too.
Have a look under 'Storage' for 'Penguin Donkey' - we've got one of these.
- H
oooh, that's niiiice.
I love this 'cell shelf'
Oh! I'd come across Isokon when I was looking for a coffee table. I hadn't realized they make the stuff there as well. Really very, very cool.
Mmm - I went into the workshop once and they've got big, exciting wood-laminating jigs.
- H
the cell shelf looks like a knuckleduster :)
This looks influenced by a vanilla pod.
for an 8-fingered thug? I'd leave him well alone!
I love the shelving styles and the lamps, but the tables are too much like sawhorses with a slab on top.
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