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TENT Selects: Harry Thaler's Pressed Chair
PUBLISHED 9 Sep 2010 - 1:16pm
AUTHOR: William Shaw
Pressed chair by Harry Thaler
A stand out among the designs chosen by TENT Selects at this year's TENT London is Harry Thaler's nicely lo-fi Pressed Chair. Freshly graduated from the Royal College or Art, the chair was part of Thaler's Final Show. Pressing structural elements into an aluminium sheet, Thaler creates a single shape that can be bent into a simple stacking chair. It's strong, despite being so light you can lift it with only a couple of fingers. With neat frugality, the remaining pieces of the aluminium sheet form three legs. Screw them together and you have the accompanying stool.  Harry Thaler... More
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Spaces within spaces: Vonsung Pavilion at Tent
PUBLISHED 25 Aug 2010 - 9:58am
AUTHOR: William Shaw
Vonsung cafe
This year's Tent at the Old Truman Brewery features this superb temporary restaurant/cafe, created by London's Vonsung design studio. Creative director Joseph Sung and his team have designed this pop-up pavilion. "We have had to conceive the design of the pavilion taking into account the very short construction time, the short life span of the restaurant and the need for it to return to the original state of the Truman Brewery shortly after the event," explains Sung. In some ways it's a project about resourcefulness. The dramatic 147 sqm site is constructed using materials borrowed from... More
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says:

looks a little dull and dated - is it recycled materials or just borrowed ?

says:

What a pity that it is temporary. I love the recycling element.

says:

Very sleek.  Pop-up restaurants are getting more sophisticated than permanent ones!  Can't wait to see this pavilion during LDF! 

says:

Went there for dinner last night. Serious piece of architecture, very impressive. Not a pop-up at all as it looks like it belongs inside the old truman brewery.

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