Tube furniture

Tube bench is entirely made out of iron tubes. Tube bending remains one of the most direct method for shaping furniture out of raw material.

With work ranging from the fugly to the fantastical, this quintet of up-and-comers invests functional objects with wit and wonder.

Today, robots can shape pipes however one wishes—and Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner, together with Thonet and tube bending machine manufacturer BLM, has set out to explore the limits of present-day bending technology.

ximi li's monochrome basic collection folds, bends and welds tubes of aluminum into delicate chairs and tables.

We've caught glimpses of the new work by Dutch duo Os & Oos here and there: Their new Tunnel collection, made from extruded aluminum cylinders that interlock without the use of fasteners, was shown in the castle exhibition we featured earlier this year; the aesthetic behind their Matrix project, an endlessly configurable metal grid, was used in their store interior for the glasses brand Ace & Tate. But today we're presenting both collections in all their glory

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Julian Opie, Tube Station Sofa, 1999