Austrian designer Robert Stadler presents “Shading,” a series of new work at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London for the London Design Festival. From the artist:

The Royèroid series reflects reverence to Jean Royère’s classic furniture design “Ours Polaire”. In his “Ours Polaire” series Royère sought to unify the various elements of a seat in order to form an abstract whole. This method has produced furniture with a sculptural quality. In creating the Royèroid series, Stadler continues on Royere’s ‘quest for abstraction’ up to a point in which the object turns monolithical, appearing as if it was a three-dimensional computer mesh, whilst maintaining an entirely handmade creation.

Shading is on show at 3 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4HE until 12 November.

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Designer Tomas Ekström, inspired by sheep, goat, and lamb, designed the Dolly Chair after the animals. Here’s the rather strange story from the designer himself:

Dolly, a not so regular chair, was born on July 5th, 2009, at the home of Kallbrand in Stockholm, Sweden. Her birth, not revealed to the public until August 30th, 2011, sparked controversy instantly, because Dolly was the world’s first chair to be cloned from an adult cell of a Sheep. Considered one of the most significant design breakthroughs ever, Dolly’s birth and subsequent survival proved that sheep cells can reprogram themselves into a new being. The man that created her, Tomas Ekström, hoped to create a chair whose design was genetically young forever, rather than prematurely out of style. However, when Dolly was reported to have been euthanized on February 14th, 2113, nearly 104 years after her birth, concern was raised that her classic design was caused because her cells were in fact timeless; she also had premature arthritis. Chairs can normally live to 11 or 12 years of age, and a classic design is not common in younger chairs. There was some speculation as to whether she caught her beautiful shape from the other furniture from Kallbrand that she was housed with, but that claim has been neither confirmed nor denied.

He goes on to personify each chair and table with characteristics like shyness, and rebelliousness.

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Evan Clabots of Nonlinear Studio recently debuted the Cantilever Floor Lamp, which features adjustable height for all your lighting needs. The lamp shade sits on a small secondary pole that is cantilevered off of the lamp’s vertical pole. The cantilevered arm ends in a ring that slides over the vertical pole of the lamp. The weight of the shade twists the ring causing it to “lock” or binds on the wooded pole and keeps the shade at any height.

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The latest from Brooklyn-based designer Emily Vislocky are a provocative (literally) pair of tables titled “Poke & Squeeze.” The set of tables, which she calls “uncomfortably anthropomorphic,” fit together in a way much like humans do in a purely physical way. The drawer fronts are made from flexible dip-molded pastic, and “beckon users to engage with surprisingly, and, perhaps uncomfortably, human-like interface.”

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