Foundry

The local furniture scene is getting more and more exciting. Foundry Collection is a new store at Purvis Street in Singapore showcasing a collaboration of crafted furniture with simple aesthetics. Out of Stock, a design studio of international and local designers who met in Stockholm curates the 2010 collection which debuted at the IMM at Cologne this year.

A flyer came in the work mail today for a debut session today. It's too bad I have something on tonight but I will definitely make a trip there one day. I like almost all of the cleverly-designed items, some of which are below:



Designed by Elisa Honkanen from Finland, this set of side tables has interlocking joints which remind me of local bamboo furniture where the round members are joint together simplistically and straight-forwardly. The certain child-like sensibility of the structure really calls out to me.



'Rack Your Brains' is a coat hanger designed by Tomohiko Sato from Tokyo that takes the form of an art work but actually has hidden bars concealed within the many lines that pop out to act as clothes pegs. There's also a certain raw tactility in the roughness of the lines on wood coupled with the fun of its hide-and-seek functionality. Neat!



'Hug' by Ana Kras from Serbia is a chair made of two layers of wood for strength, each layer expressed in a slightly displaced motion. Each layer can be coloured differently and I think this chair makes you do a do a double take on its construction. It's sophisticated yet not too serious.