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Design What

Design What featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

El_Masnad

El_Masnad is a floor seating carpet designed for living rooms. The design takes the armrest, a traditional focal point in Saudi homes, and uses it as the main element of the seating unit, while all other parts of a common seat are removed. El_Masnad keeps users close to the ground, so sitting feels playful and intuitive. The pieces have no fixed orientation and can be combined in many configurations. The foam core is shaped by five-axis hot wire milling and wrapped in stitched felt, like a rolled carpet.

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Phantom II

This is a coat rack with four wood hooks, one wood basement and a clear acrylic stick. Because of its clear stick, it creates an illusion that the presence of coat rack disappears in a dark room and your coats hanging on hooks look like they are in the air as if you see a phantom there. This coat rack can be assembled without using screws or glue.

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Planet without the "E"

This is a mini planter which can be displayed anywhere in the house. Separate parts of this planter allow you to play with construction by combining pieces. You can also grow herbs in this planter.

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Turf rug lounger

The Rug Lounger is a new concept in furniture consisting of a Rug and a Lounger which works in harmony with one another. The round shaped Rug creates the smallest possible private space and gives you comfort and a relaxing time. A small table can be set on the big dots on the dotted Rug which creates a private space. Using an artificial grass rug achieves a low cost design which is available for various scenes from indoor to outdoor.

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Ydin

Ydin stool can be mounted by yourself, without using special tools, thanks to a simple interlocking system. The 4 identical feet are placed in no particular order and the concrete seat, acting as the keystone, keeps everything in place. Feet are made with scrap wood coming from a stairs manufacturer, easily machined using traditional woodworking techniques and finally oiled. The seat is simply moulded in a lasting fiber-reinforced UHP Concrete. Only 5 dissociable parts to be flat packed and ready to be shipped to final customers, is another sustainability argument.

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5x5

The 5x5 chair is a typical design project where the limitation is recognised as a challenge. The chair's seat and the back are made of xilith which is very difficult to be shaped. Xilith is the raw material that can be found 300 meters under the ground's surface and is comined with a coal. Currently the majority of the raw material is thrown away. From environmental point of view this material generates waste on the earth's surface. Therefore the idea about the chair design seemed to be very provocative and challenging.

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