Lego Island
Step back, Jacobsen, Utzon, Kjaerholm, Wegner, and all you other great Danes. When it comes to Danish design domination, the unrivaled champ is undoubtedly the almighty plastic brick—Lego.
Billund, Denmark, could easily be considered the prefab capital of the world: Each year, its factories pump out more than 19 billion modules, which are sent around the world and pieced together by more than 400 million people.
Billund is, after all, the home of Lego, one of the most intensely used building blocks on Earth. The company’s 2,350 different pieces and 52 colors form a nearly infinite number of combinations—–and for as many purposes, from creating a land of shipwrecked pirates to assembling an actual kitchen island in a Paris apartment.
The idea for Simon Pillard and Philippe Rossetti’s Lego kitchen sprouted five years ago, when Pillard put 500 blocks and a day’s worth of work into building a Lego-legged chair. The designing duo—–who create products together under the name Munchausen—–recently gave the seat a colorful companion. They covered their kitchen island—–a simple wooden block—–with 20,000 Lego pieces.
“We design mostly in black and white,” Rossetti says of their professional work. “Our apartment is our place for emotional release, the liberation of colors.”
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Awesome. I wanna.
Wow, I want a Lego kitchen! How wonderful!
Clean design! Does anyone know the source/where I can buy the colorful wall hanger featured on the back wall? Thanks.
This is a great idea. Is there any information on how they kept the top of the bench smooth? Any pictures of the top surface? In the macintosh keyboard, there is a reflection of the multi-coloured surface, but no indication of how they created the "top" to be smooth. Tiles? Sanding back the bricks? Filling with a resin?
Nm. I found the answer. The top surface is a "wall" of bricks lying on it's side. It's visible from this picture: http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/article/detail/1628
@Shayne: It's an Eames hanger, although rather a large one. http://tinyurl.com/ya98ne6
http://vimeo.com/8556008 Irish Architects abgc designed and built this board room table for an advertising agency. I think the plane of the table top is more successful than the busy kitchen island featured here.
excellent work! will be fallowing your works its gives me really good inspirations.. thank you!
Wow! I really dig the IKEA barstools and kitchen cabinets!
Jens Risom's holiday pre fab home.Where can I order this fantastic building?.If not,t is it possible to pay for a copy of the plans?Please help.I'm in love with this building! Thanks Ian
Where can I get instructions for imitating this design?
great idea yery cool!!
Instructions/Plans are you serious?
My son loves Legos! I had to show him this island! He absolutely adored it! Awesome idea too!
It's ironic that an obviously un-kidfriendly space -- all white, perfectly ordered -- would be sheathed in an icon of childhood.
Yes, call Simon and Phillipe for black and white design solutions. How clever. So much for diversity.
This makes me want to play in the kitchen all day. Ok, empty nesters lets recycle those legos!
what kind of flooring is that?
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