In Habitat »

[15 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Somali parliament

Guess, this must be a world´s first: a parliament session in monoblocs. The photo caption however reads bit less sanguine than the cheerily decorated room looks ..

Stories »

[13 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]

A commercial from Bangladesh, directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farook for Bengal Wares Furniture. Kind of cute, even more so with the director´s clip info from YouTube:
Shahed has not sit on anything till he was born.. He does all his work (eating, attending school & office, going to places) just standing.. That’s why people call him ‘Standing Shahed’.. Won’t Standing Shahed sit ever?? Yaa, he will sit only if he gets a Bengal plastic chair!
Have a good weekend everybody, I will be working. Back on Monday.

w/o Designers »

[12 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Mono Carpet Clamp

Found on some Singaporean blog; funny how the author fears, the kid size plastic chair may fall and hurt passersby – sure not that much heavier rug threatens public safety..

Art & Design »

[12 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Pascal Rete: 60 Minutes

In April 2007 artist Pascal Rete drove from the Swiss city of Monthey to Louvigné du Désert in the French Bretagne. He stopped exactly every 60 minutes, unpacked his travel companion off the back of his car and took a photo in a radius of 50 m right where he was at that moment. Here´s the resulting small series.

w/o Designers »

[12 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Mono Swings 2/3

Step by step instructions how to build a swing seat from a kids monobloc on a Thai website. Works for adult size chairs as well I suppose and knowledge of Thai is largely dispensable.

Art & Design »

[11 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
EJ

Not sure whether Erik, Jonas, Ingo or Christian mailed that pic more than a year ago.. Guess Erik – just incredible! Ernst Jünger in his garden.