Trend Report: Wood is the material Star Tent London 2014 - A tour around a key shows the design of the London Film Festival - exciting, innovative tent - this month has proved our long love affair with the wood is as strong as ever. Designer makers take this secular material and find modern ways to celebrate its strength and beauty. To highlight the grain of wood combine to create intricate designs, a range of innovative models showed just how versatile wood and can be glorious. Here are nine different ways to wear the trend in your own home.
where Tent London
When September 2014
Top trend wood in many different forms
where Tent London
When September 2014
Top trend wood in many different forms
Harris Calnan construction
1 blond wood
pale woods such as beech, birch and ash, were somewhat overshadowed in recent years, but there were many inspiring designs at the show. This image shows how a slice of pale birch can be beautiful in a contemporary regime.
Spotted Tent
Furniture Brand took that idea and ran with it. His beautifully simple beech Hat & Coat Trees are made from a series of plates that wrap gently up and down to form hooks and shelves.
pale woods such as beech, birch and ash, were somewhat overshadowed in recent years, but there were many inspiring designs at the show. This image shows how a slice of pale birch can be beautiful in a contemporary regime.
Spotted Tent
Furniture Brand took that idea and ran with it. His beautifully simple beech Hat & Coat Trees are made from a series of plates that wrap gently up and down to form hooks and shelves.
Jodie Rosen Design
2 Raw edges
one of the best ways to connect to the origin of the wood with a live edge - the thin rough cut left surface.
Spotted Tent
Several designers have been using this technique, including Whetstone Oak, with beautiful large table tops apparently cut from the tree.
one of the best ways to connect to the origin of the wood with a live edge - the thin rough cut left surface.
Spotted Tent
Several designers have been using this technique, including Whetstone Oak, with beautiful large table tops apparently cut from the tree.
Laura Roberts Design
3 modern inlays
One of the most exciting trends in the wood that arises again and again was modern inlaid. Rethink this age-old technique has produced some beautifully crafted pieces with an aesthetic decidedly contemporary - think geometric shapes and modern brights. Other parts used a traditional mix of wood in different colors, but in a modern way.
Spotted Tent
Anthony Roussel inlaid occasional orange and pink chevron light gray wood for a table that would be the star of any interior scheme. Cubist buffet Turner Furniture is inlaid with random triangles in pale wood with dark, while Tetrahedral Cillian Ó Súilleabháin cabinet is made from rich inlaid walnut with herringbone thin pale ashes.
One of the most exciting trends in the wood that arises again and again was modern inlaid. Rethink this age-old technique has produced some beautifully crafted pieces with an aesthetic decidedly contemporary - think geometric shapes and modern brights. Other parts used a traditional mix of wood in different colors, but in a modern way.
Spotted Tent
Anthony Roussel inlaid occasional orange and pink chevron light gray wood for a table that would be the star of any interior scheme. Cubist buffet Turner Furniture is inlaid with random triangles in pale wood with dark, while Tetrahedral Cillian Ó Súilleabháin cabinet is made from rich inlaid walnut with herringbone thin pale ashes.
Martin Gardner Photography
4 grains and texture
Celebrating the grain and texture of the wood is the prerogative of the country-style houses. Of smooth sided heating systems parts for smooth, polished boards fixed on a pure white background, wood can play a role in any style of home. Designers are increasingly playing with grain for the highlight of exciting ways.
Spotted Tent
Curley Burrows hand carves the grain in its furnishings in, while Lee Borthwick makes grain cutting boards with the contours of grain burned into fine lines reminiscent of an Ordnance Survey map.
Learn to introduce the raw texture in the right way
Celebrating the grain and texture of the wood is the prerogative of the country-style houses. Of smooth sided heating systems parts for smooth, polished boards fixed on a pure white background, wood can play a role in any style of home. Designers are increasingly playing with grain for the highlight of exciting ways.
Spotted Tent
Curley Burrows hand carves the grain in its furnishings in, while Lee Borthwick makes grain cutting boards with the contours of grain burned into fine lines reminiscent of an Ordnance Survey map.
Learn to introduce the raw texture in the right way
Llama Group
5 Eco design
sustainably grown, locally sourced and hand are still important factors for many designers who work with wood - and for homeowners looking to add a timber element to their interior.
Spotted Tent
Sebastian Cox did all of closets candlesticks hazel coppice, bringing a "right wood aesthetics inside.
Learn to use the natural wood to stunning effect
sustainably grown, locally sourced and hand are still important factors for many designers who work with wood - and for homeowners looking to add a timber element to their interior.
Spotted Tent
Sebastian Cox did all of closets candlesticks hazel coppice, bringing a "right wood aesthetics inside.
Learn to use the natural wood to stunning effect
Tadelakt Decor
6 artisan skills
artisan Presentation feel a subtle way has never been easier.
Spotted Tent
Dan Hoolahan to Freeform makes pieces that are both simple and very usable - think side tables set up with nuts and chunky wooden bolts . Slow curved wooden accessories such as vases and hanging lamps would be perfect for adding a touch of wood to a smooth regime.
artisan Presentation feel a subtle way has never been easier.
Spotted Tent
Dan Hoolahan to Freeform makes pieces that are both simple and very usable - think side tables set up with nuts and chunky wooden bolts . Slow curved wooden accessories such as vases and hanging lamps would be perfect for adding a touch of wood to a smooth regime.
Alhadeff Architects
7 Fine, light wood
Hans J Wegner classic chair CH24 Wishbone, featured in the kitchen, always came in pale wood, modern designers are using these woods with equally inspiring.
Spotted Tent
Alp gave his stool beech 102B modern edge with turned legs half mismatched painted in a matte finish. beautiful pieces lined Erazo Sebastian Fischer, meanwhile, would slot right into a barely there aesthetic.
Hans J Wegner classic chair CH24 Wishbone, featured in the kitchen, always came in pale wood, modern designers are using these woods with equally inspiring.
Spotted Tent
Alp gave his stool beech 102B modern edge with turned legs half mismatched painted in a matte finish. beautiful pieces lined Erazo Sebastian Fischer, meanwhile, would slot right into a barely there aesthetic.
Imagine Living
8 and delicate decorative
Many designers use of wood in new ways to create delicate, decorative pieces such as wall tiles.
Spotted Tent
beautiful tiles-wood bleached Sandra Owens' are a good example of marrying the old appeal of wood with a modern aesthetic . The drawings are derived from abstract photos of texture, but the parts have kept this feeling to the hand that gives character to an interior.
Many designers use of wood in new ways to create delicate, decorative pieces such as wall tiles.
Spotted Tent
beautiful tiles-wood bleached Sandra Owens' are a good example of marrying the old appeal of wood with a modern aesthetic . The drawings are derived from abstract photos of texture, but the parts have kept this feeling to the hand that gives character to an interior.
Wood Intarya
9 illuminating
New lighting designs grow timber to show his delicate and playful side.
Spotted Tent
pendant perfect petal Alice Blogg is made from steam-bent wood, while that of Yufei Liang beautiful 1 + 1 = 1 shades are created from the circles of paper-thin wood joined to form geometric shapes, such as Rhombus nice.
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Are you a fan of wood? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
New lighting designs grow timber to show his delicate and playful side.
Spotted Tent
pendant perfect petal Alice Blogg is made from steam-bent wood, while that of Yufei Liang beautiful 1 + 1 = 1 shades are created from the circles of paper-thin wood joined to form geometric shapes, such as Rhombus nice.
Tell us ...
Are you a fan of wood? Share your thoughts in the comments below.