Open-source furniture brand Opendesk has collaborated with designers in London and Chicago to create new two pieces of furniture that can be assembled without glue, screws or hinges.
London-based Opendesk – whose business model is based around an online database of designs for digital fabrication – worked with London-based Thor ter Kulve to create a workstation based on Japanese joinery techniques.
It also teamed up with Chicago design duo Pia Narula and Sam Devenport, to create a latticed shelving unit.
Ter Kulve's Bundle Desk is a trestle table that can be easily folded down and put back together, suiting users that change their space regularly. The design reinterprets traditional Japanese joints, to suit digital fabrication.
"I think it's fair to say that Japanese carpenters have mastered joinery," he told Dezeen. "By re-designing the joints for digital fabrication, I could replicate the functional and aesthetic advantages of Japanese joinery without years of experience."
"Designing in this way required a certain mindset – rather than a joint the challenge for me was to create a digital 3D puzzle that would be strong and easy to assemble and disassemble in the physical world."
