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SCP Ishinomaki Laboratory was founded in 2011 as a community workshop making functional furniture to help those whose lives had been devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake, going on to market its products worldwide. SCP’s Ten Years Later project is celebrating its milestone first decade by asking designers such as Philippe Malouin and Matthew Hilton to create a raft of new products; this bird-bath by ceramicist Reiko Kaneko sits one of her terracotta bowls on a cross-shaped cedar base. scp.co.uk
Isokon Plus Guardian of a beloved modernist plywood furniture archive, Isokon Plus also likes to invite designers to create new pieces that heed the spirit of the original products while moving the brand in new directions. The Iso-lounge is the latest of these, a cantilevering chair designed by Jasper Morrison, whose simple
appearance belies a complex design: in some places the layers of plywood are thinner, allowing the chair to flex when the user sits on it, while others are thicker where added strength is required. isokonplus.com
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