This week Friday Five  sticks close to home, spotlighting New Jersey-based furniture maker Michael Iannone, who has been designing and building furniture for over 12 years. (He worked for two years as a luthier crafting custom solid body electric guitars too. Cool!) His company,  Iannone Design , is dedicated to the creation of eco-friendly modern furniture. Here are his five favorite things. 1

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Friday Five with Michael Iannone

UnPølished is a series of experimental furniture by Dik Scheepers created for Toegepast 16 at Z33 . Made of papercrete, an experimental material made from discarded paper and cement, and whitewood, the furnishings resemble building blocks used to create houses. Photos 1-5 by Kristof Vrancken

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UnPølished by Dik Scheepers

Rupert McKelvie is a UK-based designer who first considered design after attending a classical boat building course in Lyme Regis in Dorset. Both a trained maker and designer, he has mastered various skills allowing him the opportunity to create a series of beautiful furnishings using both his hands, his head, and modern technology. Flight Desk The Flight explores the relationship between hardwood and silicone. Solid engineered timber is wrapped with two molded silicone bands that hold the planks together, locate them on the trestles and then act as a desk tidy

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Rupert McKelvie

Calendars seem to be a popular holiday gift, and this is the time of year people seem to be popping up everywhere selling them. This one caught my eye partly because it looks cool and also because it’s interactive.  The Puzzle Calendar is made of colorful building blocks that can be rearranged to change the look of your calendar each month. There are also pieces made for special days like birthdays and holidays.  And it kind of looks like legos which is also pretty cool too in my opinion. Available here for a pretty reasonable $12.50.

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The Hatch is an installation/pop-up eatery at the Dock designed by Studio TooGood and conceptual food designers Arabeschi di Latte. The décor pops: colourful giant building blocks covered in Formica are inspired by 20th-century art and architecture. Visitors sit on and among these sculptural elements and can also build with smaller scale blocks. The egg-themed food bar also has an element of interactivity, as diners choose from a selection of egg-based dishes and are given a “kit” with which to prepare it.

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