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This furniture was designed and built for a house in Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok is a city of extreme water conditions. It is a city of waterways with a water table close to the ground’s surface. Each year there is a dry season when everything is covered with a fine light mud colored dust and a rainy season when snakes emerge. The house is like a tank that holds this environment. The living room has a green-grey granite floor; a canal with a glass floor runs along side, bringing light through the water to the level below. The furniture was conveived as inhabitants of this tank-like house—inhabitants of the different aquatic states. We developed the designs of the furniture from conceptual sketches into shop drawings through models and prototypes, supervised and coordinated the fabrication involving numerous materials and trades and were involved in the fabrication of several of the pieces directly ourselves. A few designs were fabricated in Thailand from our prototypes and drawings.
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