No unnecessary bells or whistles (let alone a power cord) are needed for this elegantly simple tea timer-and-steeper to do its job. Just pour, screw, tip and wait. A pair of identical glass vessels twist together mechanically via a plastic joiner piece to form the sealed middle between two hourglass-shaping bulbs, each sized for a single ...
Designed and built for a Los Angeles exhibition, this bench was made with harsh, bare and inhospitable urban environments in mind. Acute-angled edges and corners are not sharpened to slice the sitter, but are sufficiently honed to keep you on the edge of your seat. The seating portion itself is crafted from reclaimed Douglas Fir, linked ...
It looks daunting if not downright dangerous – two side supports, anchored to nothing and angled away from normal (in the sense of: ninety degrees from the ground) look little like legs, and the seat swings freely between them. Still, this is basic physics at its best – adding the gravitational pull of the Earth as ...
They may not win awards for style or be quite as elegant as store-bought versions, but the two ideas below sure are simple (and relatively cheap) to build as long as you have a plan and know what you want out of a corner-oriented work space. Shelving and a working surface should suffice, but even ...
Self-adjusting, scroll-shaped ends make space for as many (or few) books as you want to accommodate, all without the need for separate conventional bookends (or even existing shelf space – a window ledge, side table or floor would work too). Aside from the physical need for support (and place to store spare lengths of the wrapped-up ...
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