Natural wood trim—as opposed to laminate—is gaining steam in luxury car interiors. Various veneers are stores in a carefully monitored humidor before they're applied to models for armrests or dashboard and door details.
Here are some of the seat patterns for the various parts. Unlike a lounge chair or sofa found in your living room, this chair is made from many separate components, each positioned to optimize the piece.
The seatmaker sculpts a form out out of the foam. The more dense foam offers rigid support while the less dense sections conform more to a driver's body.
Seating is a large component of car interiors and evaluated on comfort, looks, and functionality. Very specific compositions of foam exist underneath the surface. The different densities create the support and comfort that's needed to make quick trips around town and long road trips equally enjoyable. Here's an example of the different foams in a seat.
Here's an example of all various wood accents one might see within a car. After the shape is contoured and refined by the designers and woodworkers—the same way as the steering wheel stitch is—it's then ok'd for production.
This is just a glimpse of what goes into three components and similar processes occur for other parts.
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After the foam configutation is set, the seat is upholstered and assembled.
The color, texture, and grain of a piece of leather is taken into account for upholstering an interior. Each car GM produces needs to be consistent and uniform in look and customization options. For example, if a buyer sees a caramel leather in a showroom car and wants it in their own, it needs to look the same. The studio makes sure that tanneries will be able to provide the right shade for a piece of leather and will be able to reproduce that on a large scale.
British artist Hannah Sawtell and technologist Avi Flombaum created sawbaum.com, where users can create visual collages using multiple vine streams. "We wanted it to look like a visual comic book, with overlapping panels," said Flombaum. "And we wanted it to be fun!" Photo courtesy Rhizome.
For example, a designer specifies a certain stitch pattern. A sewer then creates the same pattern by hand giving feedback on reproducability. If it's too complex, he or she will offer feedback to the designer; the designer then takes another stab at the stitch's look. The back and forth happens until the detail is refined and meets the aesthetic standards and manufacturing capabilities at GM.
The automotive design process at General Motors involves countelss talented people from ideation to production. After designers come up with ideas for interior and exterior styling—think: the shape of seats, the contouring of a console, the overall look and feel of a cabin—craftspeople create life-sized prototypes at the Interiors and Exteriors Studio. They evaluate the design to see if it's something that can be produced on a large scale given the tools and machinery that's readily available. Even the most minute stitch.
Illustration via drawastickman.com.
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One of the witticisms found on livethesheendream.com.
Experience Norway’s splendor in one of Livit’s sleek Birdbox cabins tucked away in remote areas like Fauske and Langeland. The Norwegian company also has two prefabs available for purchase (choose between 76 or 131 square feet) with the option for a totally turnkey cabin.
Ulysses word cloud poster from beautifulwordsbeautifulart.com.
Living room fireplace and cork wall by Gerald Jerome circa 1975-76
GM 15 Pendant Lamp by Grethe Meyer
GM 15 Pendant Lamp by Grethe Meyer
Elfa by the Container Store / containerstore.com
The Pine Plains, New York, home of Elise and Arnold Goodman boasts 48 windows, the largest of which measures 8'6'' by 7'6''. As architect Preston Scott Cohen explains, the "free facade makes it impossible to identify how many levels there are, or even to tell the difference between a door and a window." Photo by: Raimund Koch
The smaller GM 15 Pendant Light is made of powder-coated lacquered stainless steel. The minimalist, classic pendant light hangs from a white fabric cord. It can be used on its own, or grouped with other GM Pendant Lights.
Shown with Menu’s Bottle Grinders Set.
A closer look at the copper GM Pendant light, shown with Menu’s stackable glasses.
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The book cover. Courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press (papress.com).
The GM—Grethe Meyer—Pendants are balanced pendant lights that can be used for overhead lighting in a dining room or kitchen, and can also be grouped together to create a graphic lighting installation. Shown here, the GM 30 Pendant Light in Copper is made of lacquered solid copper and is suspended from a black fabric cord.
Shown with Menu’s Afteroom Chair, Kaschkasch Mirror, and Marble Wall Clock.
Robertson--with the help of developers Katie Nichols and John Walker, who were heavily involved in the design process--finished the guest bathroom with Modwalls tiles and a sink they found on eBay. They used a piece of marine plywood, leftover from building the front-porch steps, to create a counter on which the sink could sit--and where the family can rest their toothbrushes. To the right of the sink is a Toto dual-flush toilet, which is great for conserving water but has proven problematic for toilet training, as American potty seats aren't designed to fit these Japanese basins.
Sauna–Star (Ladder)
Materials: Sanded and polished aluminum
Dimensions: 40 x 7,6 x 226h cm / 15,76 x 2,99 x 89,04h in
Mmm... the final results, ready for enjoying. Photo courtesy amyskitchentable.com.
Method Homes website design by Autograph
Method Homes website design by Autograph
Analog photos taken with a Canon Sure Shot 76 Zoom 35mm.
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