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Dwell & DWR's "Live/Work" Design Contest Winner Announced

By Carren Jao - June 22, 2012

in Competition | Furniture Design | News | Homeware

Earlier this year, we told you about the "Live/Work" Design Contest, which challenged designers to dream up the next "classic of tomorrow" for the home office. Today, our friends at Dwell on Design and Design Within Reach gave us a little heads up and shared with us this year's winner, whose design could potentially be manufactured and sold by DWR.

Besting 587 entries, the grand prize winner is Chicago-based designer Amanda Ip with the Innermix Desk, created with the designer's own live/work preference. The desk offers a large workspace and simple storage solutions that together create a clean, organized work area. That touch of color also adds a sense of fun and play, a welcome change to a predominantly gray and bleak office furniture.

Congratulations, Amanda! We hope to see the Innermix Desk in DWR stores soon!

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This is a nice, elegant design.
I congratulate Ms. Ip for winning.

But speaking as someone who has been fabricating metal for architects, designers, and builders for 30 years, why is it that so many people are constantly using the old square tube/rectangles in space design?

Sure, its easy to draw, and looks geometric and modern, but its a lousy use of materials, its difficult to do properly, expensive, and wasteful.

Every one of those effortless looking invisible miters in square tube is much more costly to do than more sensible mechanical connections.

We fabricators, blacksmiths, welders and machinists have a neverending series of jokes and gripes about how predictable architects and designers are in requesting extremely non-intuitive construction techniques and finishes, mostly because they saw them in a magazine somewhere.

Oh well.

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