Concrete Canvas Furniture
A clever designer meets a clever material: See how Florian Schmid uses Concrete Canvas to sew soft forms that harden to durable furniture when water is applied.
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Furniture & Lighting
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
One-Pallet Park Bench
Julien Deswaef of Brussels, Belgium, designed this bench built from a shipping pallet. Get from a standard (Epal-Eur) pallet to a public bench in just a couple easy steps. The idea came while thinking about urban hacking or how to reclaim public space with easy to find material and tools in urban areas. This project […]
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Concrete Speakers
The thing about speakers, of course, is that there’s not really any good way, that I can think of, to convey their most important functional quality online: How do they sound? Still, these prototypes from industrial designer Shmuel Linski look so good I couldn’t pass ’em up
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Bench Made from Upcycled Wood and Concrete
Using wood end pieces from other projects, A&Ré design mated the resulting slab to simple and clean looking legs made from fiber concrete. The legs were made in collaboration with betonWare, making for a unique look while still being sturdy. The result is called the Essence Bench, a piece of furniture I certainly wouldn’t mind […]
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Patterned Concrete Tables
Kami of Austin Tinkering School wrote in to share these cool concrete tables that her friend Elena Eidelberg created. She works in ceramics but has been experimenting a lot with concrete this year and I think she’s been making some amazing stuff. She’s casting into high relief fabrics and then tinting the concrete and even […]
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Concrete Coffee Table with Cast-in Saucers
I bet Brandon would sell you one, if you’re interested. Or, you could try making your own by pouring concrete into a melamine mold box (as in this tutorial from DIY Network) with upside-down saucers mounted in the bottom.
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Voronoi Bookshelf Generator
Alan Rorie of San Francisco, CA, wrote in to share his Voronoi Bookshelf Generator software that helps you design your Voronoi-pattern bookshelf on-screen, then output files for laser cutting or CNCing. (See more MAKE posts about Alan.)
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