Sandy Chilewich is the founder and creative director of Chilewich Sultan LLC , a New York based company owned with her partner and husband Joe Sultan. Chilewich , the brand, is renowned worldwide for their modern reinterpretation of underutilized materials and manufacturing processes. Their textiles have transformed how people dress their tables at home and in restaurants around the globe, while their floor and wall coverings provide a clean contemporary alternative in the design community

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Friday Five with Sandy Chilewich

Designed by Harry Thaler, a goldsmith studying design in London, England, the Pressed Chair is as light as a feather. In fact, this  chair is so incredibly light that it can be held with just one finger! Made of a single sheet of 2.5 mm aluminum, the Pressed Chair receives its strength from the decorative indents pressed into the chair.

The minimal materials used in the Pressed Chair make it environmentally friendly; it is 100% recyclable and produces no waste throughout the manufacturing process. On Harry Thaler’s website, it is written about the Pressed Chair that the “value of design excels in the intent of creating a piece out of one single material without any joints or connectors.”

Thaler’s goldsmith background has led him from jewelry design to furniture and interior design. To see more of his work, visit his website at http://www.harrythaler.it/.

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Summer 2010 sees the launch of the new stool, Cap , the first release from DFTS Factory , the design and manufacturing company forged from the embers of one of Sweden’s most active underground design pairings, Don’t Feed The Swedes. This clever new design collective seems like they’re ready to make their mark.

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DFTS Factory Launches with the Cap Stool

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

This incredible ceiling light is the work of Jeongwon Ji, and is the result of a structural study on the association with the motion of light, human engagement, and the movement of forms. This light can be expanded or shrunk, and each movement alters the amount of light.

Spread Light is created through both modern manufacturing processes as well as hand-made methods, Ji’s idea of a new kind of luxury. See more here.

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Objeti is a brand new Cleveland-based design and manufacturing company on a mission to create beautiful, functional, modern furniture. I think that they’ve succeeded with the launch of their first collection, the Aerialist Series™ which includes 3 tables: Point (single square), Line (3 squares), and Plane (4 squares). http://www.objeti.com
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Objeti Launches with Aerialist Table Collection