Karl Zinsmaster, Bjorn Ricke, Summer Covell, and Travis Bookler have been collaborating on a series they call Constructs. Investigating the "legitimacy of material, icon and author," design classics are remade in humbler materials that evoke the shop: Castiglioni's Arco lamp is interpreted as a cinder block, a work lamp, conduit and paint; Le Corbusier's Petite Lounge is reconstructed from rebar and Quikrete packages; the classic Noguchi table is replicated in Oriented Strand Board; and a historical Mondrian painting is remade in ceramic tile samples.

I love this project not only for its simplicity and humour, but also for the clever and insightful ways the designers have interpreted the essential elements of these design icons, distilling them into the simplest of constructions without losing their recognizability.

Much more after the jump!