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- Tags: Antti Viitala, Finland, Fish, Helsinki, Image, Kids, Photography
You can’t go wrong with Magis, the products both large and small have had me lusting since i was a kid… and tonight in particular i’ve been rediscovering their Me Too children’s collection (many of which have been on NOTCOT over the years)… one that i hadn’t noticed before is this Alma and Linus stacking chair and table set from Spanish designer, Javier Mariscal. The most incredible part is seeing the patterns on the back up close, i love the trees filled with the birds in their leaves! Made of injection molded Polypropylene with glass fibre, this set is suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. Below, see not only a close up of the detail of the back of these seats, but also a few other Mariscal pieces for the Magis Me Too Collection (like the crazy angler fish looking play thing!)
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- Tags: Furniture, Kids, Magis, Me Too Collection, Outdoor, Plastic, Toys
Wooden toys don’t seem so appealing–until you take a look at Take-G’s insanely-complicated-to-produce line of handmade characters and vehicles. Artist Takeji Nakagawa takes the Japanese craft process of Yosegi-Mokuzougan (joined wooden block construction) and cranks out some uniquely weird little robo-guys. As he says on his website:
I often get asked “Why do you make robots with wood?” I don’t really have an exact answer for it but I often relate my robots with [the] ‘future’.
What do you relate [the] future with? Cities full of metal, glass and plastic [like] in a SF movie? What we really want is not that kind of future but one full of trees and something more natural. I don’t think humans can live without trees no matter what advanced technology makes.
When I think of ‘future’, I cannot help thinking of ‘past’ at the same time. Trees take long time (tens and hundreds of years) to grow and show us their beauty (the product of their past). I think that I have responsibilities as a craftsman and an artist of breathing new life into these trees. I have a job to link 100 years in the past and 100 years in the future through my work.
