╳ Thread Count Lab just loves the informality of this bar stool created by the Melbourne based architecture and design practice Edwards Moore. Whilst it’s not a new concept, think back to Tejo Remy’s ‘Chest of Drawers’ for Droog, which had its première in 1991, it’s one concept that always tickles our creative spot! And, it certainly answers the question of what to do with timber off-cuts.
╳ Each beautiful chunk is a perfectly even reclaimed timber off-cut, finished with linseed oil putty and wax, and through ‘working in’ builds up tonal contrasts between the rough and unregular composition.
╳ ‘Chest of Drawers’ strangely enough, is actually a criticism on consumerism. Tejo Remy collected found drawers, gave them new enclosures and loosely bundled them into a chest. His pioneering vision was to make one’s own paradise with what one encounters, as Robinson Crusoe did on his island (to quote Tejo). Funny though, this design has become a true Droog classic, and an icon of conceptual design collected by museums such as MoMA and Museum of Art and Design in New York, and one of their best selling pieces!
