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The Pregnant Chair was designed as a sustainable piece of furniture, to be involved in a lasting relationship with its owner, fostered by the piece’s human characteristics. As a wooden chair that fits a smaller chair within its body, it is an expression of the beautiful physical and emotional relationship between a mother and child – the reliance and the interconnection. The smaller chair can be removed to seat a mother and child.

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Butterfly is a self assembled modular screening system suitable for interior or exterior use. Consisting of 30 interlocked plastic elements manufactured from 100% recycled waste, multiple possible configurations allow the user to tailor the screen’s height and width. Butterfly is available in a variety of colours and works as a feature wall, partitioning system, decorative accent, or a hanging space.

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It can be said that the design of all products is inherently derived and influenced by the objects surrounding us. The Rai Tree is a product analogy of this belief, as it draws from an inspirational source of life and well being, in which a variety of people can directly relate to. Inspired by natural objects and the practices many of us perform on these artifacts, the Rai Tree strives to create an emotional bond and reaction between the product and its users. The Rai Tree is designed to be wall mounted with ripening fruit placed between its branches, enticing any passerby to pick fruit from the tree.

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The Flipp Table is ideal for confined homes. It can seat two and blend elegantly into its surroundings, or flip open to seat four, transforming into a vibrant centre piece. Considered detailing and proportions achieve dimensionless aesthetics. The Flipp Table uses eco-friendly ply and the polypropylene live hinge has a prolonged life through the innovative angling of the arms. The table is available in several sizes and colours, or custom colours and patterns be applied to selected surfaces.

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Squash Me is a new style of lounge chair which uses squash balls as the seat’s suspension. Squash Me is made from renewably grown, Australian hoop pine ply, supported by a metal frame. The 13 balls create a unique sitting experience.
A driving idea behind Squash Me is the reuse of everyday objects. The chair gives objects a new function in a playful way.

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Flat Jack is an environmentally friendly short term storage solution. It is made from 97% post consumer paper waste, and one Flat Jack utilises 94% of a single sheet of material.
Flat Jack is lightweight and easy to transport and at the end of its life the entire product can be re-pulped. Flat Jack’s aim is to store books and other light display items.
Flat Jack currently comes in two finishes; standard white, or with an alternative digital print applied to surfaces.

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Either as a stand alone piece or an assemblage, the DH Pack Mate Crate can be configured horizontally and vertically to become a stool, shelf, screen wall, storage unit, coffee table and more. Interlocked joints revealing end grain and profiled cross sections display the timber and plywood identity, that is amplified as the crates ‘fit’ yet ‘misfit’ together . . . the more there are, the more like itself it becomes. is Australian built from Australian, environmentally sustainable materials.

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The DH Scenic Workstation is designed to suit either a workforce or an individual where both ESD values and personal comfort are integral. Arriving flat-packed it is easily assembled into adaptable configurations. The work surface is sensuous to touch, unlike most mass produced pieces, and the profiled edge timber is reminiscent of writing desk details. Exposed end grain, profiled cross sections and variable timber sizes matched to structural requirements contribute to the workstation’s identity. It is built by Australians, using Australian, environmentally sustainable materials.

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SILHOUETTE is a long bank of continuous work space with a bench top, two storage box supports and four demountable leg positions that allow use in isolation or combination. The different timbers and use of light set up contrasting object/plane and figure/ground relationships. Light interacts with the backdrop surface to produce a hybrid plane – both material and light – rendering the illusion of a floating ‘figure’, or a ‘SILHOUETTE’ within the created physical plane.

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Y-System provides an integrated approach to office design combining graphic design, corporate branding, interior design and industrial design. Customising the Y-System’s three components, Y-Station, Y-Box and Y-Case, creates unique and flexible office environments. Y-System also enables the inlay of corporate graphics and colours, to created a branded, cohesive interior on a limited budget that can be transported if relocation is required.

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Elfin is a versatile seating design with great personality that when turned over can be filled with ice for parties, earth for planting or even simply for trash in the office. Sculpted to address ergonomic requirements for mid to long term seating, They are economical and super comfortable. Made from high density, high strength, 100% recyclable polymer elfin are light weight and stackable. Moulded in unlimited colours and UV stabilised they are suited to the home, the beach, the office, stores or hospitality premises.

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Blanket chair v2.0 is the outcome of the process of attempting to balance elegant, simple design, economically produce a locally manufactured product. The chair is made from powder coated mild steel, with 100% recycled plastic seats and backs.

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Flox is an eco-conscious collection of unique display units that adds interest to the office landscape and breathes new life into the office planter box. It can act as both a mobile screen and a room divider. It is light and airy with a delicate pattern of perforations that mirrors the randomness of nature. Function and form combine, with details that reflect joinery, as well as the delicacy, strength and longevity of the sheet steel.

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The Paper Tiger Stool was originally conceived as a flat-packing cardboard stool capable of assembly with simple tabs and slots – no glue required. Cardboard was chosen as it is a sustainable material of recycled matter, it can be mass produced locally and cheaply and is a printable medium. Printing allows a rewnewable graphic identity in the semi-permanent stool. Echo Panel (made from fibrous PET), Plaspanel (recycled plastic board) and Corflute (recyclable plastic) are also being tested for use, as cardboard alternatives.

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Quub was motivated by the idea of using less materials than are conventionally needed for a chest of drawers. This is achieved by making the frame a series of ribs and utilising the actual drawers to build up the body of the piece. The first prototype was made entirely from floorboard offcuts all shorter than 53 cm. Changing silhouettes are created as different drawers are opened.

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