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Trex Soft-Edged Lighting by Karim Rashid
It’s a fortuitous Friday indeed here at 3rings, since we’ve got a pair of new products by perennial favorites Patricia Urquiola and Karim Rashid. Present Post concerns the latter, who seems to be conspiring to take over every room. His recent zoomorphic, polymorphic, and polyphonous Bite Me Collection claimed the living room; the all-encompassing Sphere Bed called dibs on the boudoir; and the luxurious...
Flip, Flop, or Slouch on KI’s Sela Collection
KI recently introduced their seating collection intended for college students. According to the designers, Patrick Fricke and John Blomstrom, Sela began with an oversized chair for non-prescriptive seating. The first incarnation was the Sela Chair and a Half ( or 1.5 in computer lingo), a generous chair that college students can flop into and which is comfortable in many positions. KI is trying to...
Get Back to Nature with Will Oltman’s Live Seating
No doubt you’ve heard of “living roofs,” those high-rise mini eco-systems that facilitate an attractive expanse of groundcover as a building’s capstone rather than the usual horrific agglomeration of concrete and asphalt. What if—goes my imagined re-creation of designer Will Oltman’s thought process—one applied a similar technology to furniture? The result would undoubtedly be Oltman’s...
