The students from the Department of Interior Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design have created a collection entitled Prototyping the Domestic Environment currently being exhibited in Milan at Salone del Mobile 2012 . The five works are interactive and multi-functional with the focus on “the formal adaptation of utilitarian furniture pieces into domestic spatial components.” Each object is not only a functioning interior piece, but they also act as adjustable devices for play, i.e., “tactile or optical sensory exploration or kinetic transformation.” The designs are well thought out, as well as being aesthetically pleasing with their geometric attributes. Spiral Stack (also pictured in top photo) partition wall, console, sitting, shelving unit designed by Radhi Desai & Varsha Menon Felted Divider partition with desk and light unit designed by Joe Epstein & Sheilah Carroll Fanlight Wall wall with lighting fixture designed by Ayisha Verma, Beatriz Cardona & Monica Alicea Matos +ONE Modular Shelving room divider & shelving system designed by Erin Truax & Sandhya Jethnani Tactile Stars 3-D wallpaper designed by Aarti Kathuria & Srikirti Sreedhar Photos by Andrew Filmore. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook . © 2012 Design Milk | Posted by Caroline in Art , Home Furnishings , Interior Design | Permalink | No comments

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Prototyping the Domestic Environment by RISD Students

Paul Loebach was born in 1972 into a long line of German carpenters and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a BFA in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 and immediately moved to New York after graduating to found his furniture design studio. He now works as a designer and manufacturing consultant with a broad range of American and European furniture companies, with over 200 designs currently in production at the age of 35

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Friday Five with Paul Loebach

Sina Sohrab finished this piece in her sophomore year at the Rhode Island School of Design. It’s two hand built school chairs that explore the relationships and connotations of an early childhood memory through their connection to one another. © 2010 Design Milk | Posted by Jaime in Home Furnishings | Permalink | No comments | Tweet This | Share on Facebook

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Sina Sohrab

Frank Cresencia is a senior at the Rhode Island School of Design, and has just completed a cantilever chair that focuses on using minimal material and innovative joinery to achieve a light profile. He dadoed the wooden seat shell into the steel frame.

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Elements Chair by Frank Cresencia