Furniture Society and the Siblings Bench by Libby Schrum

I came across the website of the US Furniture Society It has an annual conference with exhibitions. It has blogs, but Showing is maintained best. Although it has no public member list, it is possible to learn something about who is who in the furniture craft in the US, also from its FaceBook Page.

Between their photos I found this beautiful Bench Siblings by Libby Schrum. It was on exhibition at the 2010 Conference at MIT. Unfortunately I haven’t discovered Libby’s own site, because I’m curious about other work she may have made.

I also noticed that I have featured some prominent members of this esteemed association here on Chair Blog already. There will be more in the future.

To give you an impression what they do, I give you here a couple of posts about the 2010 conference:

Update
Ah, thanks to Brian Fireman‘s comment here below, I looked again and found Libby’s Website

Update 2
And I have to share this funny video by Hayami Arakawa:


Furniture Society Conference 2010

Uploaded by Hayamit. – Onafhankelijke web video’s.

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on November 30, 2011 at 11:58 AM

Tlf01 Plywood Stackable Chair by Tobias Labarque




Beautifully executed and jolly good combining the copper and the plywood veneer.

stackable chair
material : plywood, copper, veneer
dimensions : 48 (w) x 79 (h) x 46 (d) cm
weight : 8 kg
photography by kris de waele

Via Tobias Labarque

Light Bench by Frellstedt – modern RGB LED lighting technology | Trendir




Just set the color to your mood and go on, party!
Found it on Trendir.

Lo-Boy Lounger concept by Michael Stolworthy



Michael Stolworthy is a native designer to Las Vegas where he is inspired by the night life and lounge environments throughout the amazing Hotels & Casinos.

Re-loved Breuer Cesca Chair by Chris Hardy

Chris Hardy exhibits a cantilevered chair design inspired by Breuer’s Cesca chair.
“This response to Powerhouse Museum’s Re-loved exhibition arose from looking at modernist attitudes to adopting new technologies in the early part of last century. Just like Breuer’s Cesca chair, one of the first cantilevered chairs brought about by the use of new fabrication techniques, this reinterpretation of the Cesca chair (a modernist classic) uses contemporary generative techniques and rapid prototyping technology as an homage to modernism.”

“The generative method used is voronoi subdivision of a point cloud. This enabled further meaning to be built into the chair by using an image of the chair’s creator to influence the point cloud – Breuer becomes a ghost in the chair. The technology used to build the chair was selective laser sintering (Shapeways). This was used based on its strength characteristics and its ability to be formed quickly and easily based on the quite complex geometry.”

via Mocoloco.