Stockholm 2012: Note Design Studio present a collection of furniture inspired by camping and field trips at Stockholm Design Week this week.

The Marginal Notes series was developed from doodles the team made in the margins of their sketchbooks and notebooks over the year, revisited and worked through to physical objects.

Pieces include benches resempling logs on a sawbuck, a lamp like a butterfly net plus storage boxes and shelves based on cages for trapping specimines.

This is the second Marginal Notes series by Note Design Studio – see last year’s here.

Stockholm Design Week continues until 12 February and you can see all our stories about it here.

Photos are by Mathias Nero.

Here are some more details from Note Design Studio:

Marginal Notes 2012 – Collection
In collaboration with Lerch Träinredningar
Stockholm Design Week February 8-10

The Excursion

We went deep into the forest to explore, measure and collect. With warm clothes, good shoes and woolen caps to protect us, we collected samples and took notes. Butterfly nets and soil sifters worked hard to catch the tiniest living things. When all our cages and boxes were filled we went looking for a shaded glade. With tents, mosquito screens, and some logs to sit on we set up a base camp for the night. After a long expedition, we now had plenty to look through back home.

For the second year (over a cup of coffee) we examined our note books in search of the ideas in the margin, those unique sketches that pop out when you look again, the ones you just need to realise.
Many seemed to have a common theme that we simply called “Base Camp”; the simplistic materials and shapes of scientific field expedition tools adapted to stand wear and tear. Screens, filters, cages – to keep things inside, to let things through – were transformed into a few different pieces. Objects that separate, structure and sort Nature (or space) into understandable amounts. Other ideas connected more to the culture of exploration.

After intense discussions, a few eventually left the paper and materialized into the physical world. Just like last year, we ended up with a diverse collection of colours, shapes, materials and expressions; just the way we like it.

A biologic excursion, why did we end up there? We think it may be the inqusitive approach: to explore your surroundings, to find the beauty and detail in them, to find the respect for them, and to find a way to interact in a fair way with them.

Tuck

We came across a picture of a bearded man in a choral red tuque (pronounced “tuck”) – or burglar beanie hat – and the color caught our attention. The hat became poufs to sit on, and the their edges were folded just like the edges of the hat.  It added the function of a pocket for magazines and such, something that made us like the piece even more.

Sifter

A gigantic sifter in the center of an excavation site, turned out to be a tall and handsome coat-hanger. Well, we discussed for a long while if it should work as a lamp or a clothes-hanger, but the first thing that comes to mind is usually the best. The net in the sifter helps with the catching of your keys falling out of your pockets, or just as a basket for your hats and gloves.

Nour

Alexis´ girlfriend Maryam came by the studio, and showed us her fascinating multi-colored origami polyhedra. We thought they would look interesting with a light inside, and a process of finding a paper with the right properties ensued. We gave the many sheets the right play of colours and patterns, and then Maryam put them all together by hand.

Mosquito

We needed backdrops for our exhibition, and with all the time we’ve spent searching for inspiration in the worlds of fieldtrips, excursions and excavations, we had the image of an insect screen in our minds. It is the perfect frame to make things in front of (or behind) it look even better.

Peep

How can boxy storage furniture let more light through? We went for making their walls more transparent. After some material tests, we had a colorful group of characters, each with different sizes and functions. They hold your things, and you can decide what you want to show and what not to. The “Keep” boxes complement the Peeps perfectly.

Keep

A frame for display, like a cage in the zoo. Traps to keep things inside and sometimes let things out of. Simple wooden cube boxes where you decide how much you want to show or not. Some have an open side, others have perforated sliding lids really hard to open from the inside.

Settler

To fell a tree, and to cut it up into useful pieces. A thing of pride for a lumberjack or a settler building their first cabin. The iconic shape of a log on a sawbuck inspired these benches, since a dead tree in the forest is really the best
place for a short rest.

The Catch

Gotcha! A firefly in a butterfly net was the visual cue that led up to this swing-arm lamp. Through its central pivot-point it can be swiveled around the room and shine a light wherever necessary. Also, it really catches the light.

About Note:

To note something, to get noted: we are named after what we try to achieve.

We like to pay attention to our surrounding, and try to create things that make others to do that as well.. By looking at what is unique in every project and emphasizing that, we transform non-material values into tactile objects and spaces. We work within the fields of architecture, interiors, products, graphic design and design management. Maybe we can help you out.

Us: Alexis Holmqvist, Susanna Wåhlin, Johannes Carlström, Kristoffer Fagerström and Cristiano Pigazzini.

A big thanks for the success of this project go to Lerch Träinredningar who have helped us throw the all process with their knowledge for construction and materials.

Oriented strand board lines every wall, floor and ceiling inside this residential barn extension in Norfolk, England, by London studio Carl Turner Architects.

Black-stained timber clads the exterior of the gabled building, named Stealth Barn, and it sits perpendicular to a larger brick barn that the architects previously converted into a residence.

The interior is divided into rooms that allow it function as a guest house, although the clients also use the barn as a meeting place or studio.

Above: photograph is by Carl Turner

The OSB surfaces are intended to be reminiscent of the straw bales that fill the barns of many farms nearby.

Above: photograph is by Carl Turner

Another project we’ve featured from the agricultural landscape of Norfolk is an extension to a mill-keeper’s house – see it here.

Photography is by Tim Crocker, apart from where otherwise stated.

Here’s some more text from Carl Turner Architects:

Stealth Barn- Carl Turner Architects

Stealth Barn is a project that sits next to and complements Ochre Barn, a large threshing barn converted by CTA to a home and studio.

This addition was to provide a self-contained unit that could equally act as a guest house, studio or meeting place, depending on time of year and workloads: a retreat, but also a place of inspiration, enjoyment and a place of work and home without compromising the experience of either.

Above: photograph is by Jeremy Phillips

Sitting in the exposed expanse of the Cambridgeshire fens, it is a bold, simple form, reminiscent of the barn it accompanies.

Above: photograph is by Jeremy Phillips

Placed perpendicular to the existing barn, it stands to create and define a slightly more sheltered and casual garden which melts into the fens. This clear and simple move also hints at the memory of a former farm yard.

Above: photograph is by Jeremy Phillips

Stealth Barn pays respect to the form of the agricultural context but contrasts with the traditional barn. Stealth Barn is a sharp black mass – a shadow of the adjacent barn or a silhouette on the horizon.

It is a robust exteriorwrapped with a restricted palette, devoid of fussy detail, and formed to withstand its exposed position.

On the interior, this toughness is inverted through the inclusion of a warmer OSB; it wraps fully around the space to form angles reminiscent of the adjacent barns divided with straw bales.

Above: photograph is by Carl Turner

It also creates an immersive interior landscape with spaces simply disected in a semi open-plan manner to create compartments.

Each room has aspects overlooking the fields which, although open, are very much seen through and out of this interior, providing a sense of protection and warmth.

The arrangement of the main spaces into simple pockets is key to facilitating the barn’s multifunctional use – for it to become both a bedroom and a meeting room, a dining room and a studio space. It can be all of these things equally without ever feeling overly domestic or of business.

Stealth Barn is a project instigated and overseen by Carl Turner Architects.

We have acted as developer Architects and, in turn, the project has allowed the office scope to experiment, learn and test ideas.

It was completed at the end of August 2011.

Stockholm 2012: designers Elin Carlsten and Elisabeth Thostrup show this cabinet with sliding metal doors suspended from wheels on a rail as part of the Greenhouse exhibition of young designers at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week.

They also present a metal desk that’s fastened shut with a leather cord around two large buttons, inspired by the fastening on an envelope where string wraps around two paper disks.

Stockholm Furniture Fair continues until 11 February and you can see all our stories about it here.

Here are some more details from Carlstenthostrup:

Designer duo Carlsten Thostrup have developed a range of furniture which concern the concepts of identity and origin. It has taken its shape in a number of storage units where the details allow taking over. Welcome to see the Tie-desk and Reel cabinet in our stand, V03: 18.

Reel Cabinet

Inspired by the old barn door we designed the Reel Cabinet. A cabinet with large wheels that control the doors.

Tie Desk

New York in the 1880s. A new invention of envelopes. “Tension,” that opens and are being sealed by wrapping a cord between two round cardboard buttons. A fine detail that we wanted to take on. Which we also had the opportunity to in the process of sketching Tie Desk – our “home office” furniture. Here, we allowed this particular detail to take over. By wrapping the strap around the metal buttons the Tie Desk opens or closes.

Tired of all the mess that work from home results in, we decided to design a modern writing desk. Like a box, Tie Desk opens up. When you are finished for the day and close the valves Tie Desk becomes a unique piece of furniture in your home. At the workshop at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, we found each other directly, and our ability to give each other’s ideas life, and then together develop them is our greatest strength. It makes our cooperation surprising and enjoyable.

Dezeen Watch Store: Ion is the second new watch in our 2012 Dezeen Watch Store collection and is also the first watch by Hong Kong brand Ziiiro to use two archetypal hands to display the time.

The watch is available to buy online at Dezeen Watch Store or over the phone on +44 20 7503 7319.

Ion features a rigid bangle strap, just like other the new Ziiiro model, Proton.

This stiff plastic strap is available in black, white or clear.

The two hands of the timepiece are fixed against a brushed stainless steel face.

The watch face can be removed from the strap and swapped with any others from the Ziiiro range.

Other Ziiiro products on Dezeen Watch Store include Aurora and Celeste, which tell the time with colour, Gravity and Mercury that do the same with two comet trails and the Orbit with two circling dots.

www.dezeenwatchstore.com

Threads of plastic hang like hair from the ceiling of this dark beauty salon in Belgrade, Serbia.

Designers a2rhitektura painted the walls of the Cabello salon black and hung the threads to mask an uneven ceiling.

A rectangular ash bench lines one wall of the salon, while a line of chairs opposite face a single mirror with a red outline.

We’ve published quite a few salons on Dezeen – have a look at them all here.

Photography is by Vladimir Andjelkovic.

Here’s a short description from the architects:

“Cabello”

Cosmetic salon “cabello” is located in new belgrade, at the omladinskih brigada street 90b, airport city. It is made for a private investor who has given freedom to designers in addition to interior design and company name and overall visual identity.

Since it is a rented space in which the previous owner made certain changes in the level of ceiling (plaster pronounced ceiling beams) which should not have to be changed, the designers have decided that the entire treatment area in a black tone that allowed visual hide (removal of the third dimension) of the dominant elements of the ceiling as well as other inherited structures in the interior.

In order to achieve continuous ceiling height to the existing structure is hung “hair”, or black plastic threads on the distance a thick hide allow the existing ceiling structure and the formation of flickering ceiling, which is slightly shifted due to air flow and movement of people at the local level.

In addition to black tones dominate the interior elements of furniture made of natural wood-ash brushed, which, with its very distinctive structure emphasises natural materials. Tactility and natural materials applied to a desk, bench seating and a large shelf was imperative in making the project and details of furniture. as the only focus in space, there is a particular shade of purple light, which marks the visual space and reminds us that this is a women’s hairdresser.

Although in its interior measurements relatively small, the author realised it pieces of furniture made of brushed natural ash, specially designed printed application on the walls and glass surfaces and literally applied a new visual identity of the space, making it important for authors.

Studio: a2arhitektura
Authors: Dijana Adžemović Anđelković dia, Vladimir Anđelković dia, Aleksandar Bogojević dia, Ranko Pavlović dia