Design at the Beach

After a long winter, we’ve had enough of shawl collars and hot cocoa and are ready to skip to the bikini and pina colada part of the year; here are a couple excuses to get down to the beach.

 The ‘Sea chair’, by Studio Swine, is made by collecting discarded plastic on the beach which is melted in a portable furnace (developed by Studio Swine and Kieran Jones) and cast onsite.

 A great way to clean up the beach, and spruce up your cabana! 

Open Source Sea Chair from Studio Swine on Vimeo.

Taking sand-casting back to the source, Max Lamb shows us how to make pewter stools on the seashore, with pretty convincing results.

If you want to bring home a little piece of the beach with you, Bold Design has come up with a way to make little sculptures of the surrounding landscape with sand, using bacteria (the good kind).

The lovely pink bacterial solution hardens the sand placed in a mold in your shape of choice (between an English, French or Thai rock formation).

Modeled on a game played in Japanese temples, ‘Sand’ by Yukihiro Kaneuchi could inspire a more sophisticated sand castle, for adults who still enjoy this beloved summertime activity.  

by Claire Toussaint