ICFF Day 2: It’s All About the Remix

It became apparent during the second day of ICFF 2005 that this year’s fair is about shaking up design conventions: reinterpreting the hallowed classics, rethinking form and size, and reassessing what materials can and cannot do.

Case in point is Douglas Homer’s Hairy Bertoia chair, based on Harry Bertoia’s Diamond chairs. Homer sands down and re-welds old, destroyed Diamond frames; treats each with a fresh powder coating; and hand-knots individual strands of closed-cell, extruded sponge cord to the frame. Another example is Gubi’s aluminum shelving system that is coated in wood veneer—an unexpected combination, as aluminum would ordinarily crack as a result of the different tensions in the materials. Then there’s Tord Boontje and Emma Woffenden’s elegant TranSglass line of decanters, vases, and tumblers, all made from recycled wine and beer bottles and cut with a diamond saw. And finally, there’s Umbra’s revamped and relaunched U+ line, which debuted, appropriately enough, with the Remix table.

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