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Furniture design company 'sixixis' may have closed up shop, but its top designer, Charlie Whinney, has moved on. With his eponymously named new company, Charlie Whinney Associates, he's created an out-of-this-world installation with the Metropolitan Workshop for the London Festival of Architecture later this month.
Road Trip to the Moon (pictured above), as the installation is called, is meant to encourage a discussion about the sustainable growth and use of roads in urban areas. The idea comes from a horrifying stat -- if all the urban roads in the UK were laid end-to-end, they would supposedly reach the moon. Yikes.
I like Charlie's designs and his environmental ethos -- as does Adam V, who reviewed sixixis' Elefant table. He sourced wood locally in Cornwall from renewable sources and steam-bended them into bizarre shapes -- a low-energy technique that allows wood to be shaped without cutting or glue. It's a shame about sixixis closing, but Charlie is continuing many of the designs and the techniques with his new firm, so that's good.
Road Trip to the Moon is certainly impressive, with some complex maths and scaling involved, plus wood bending. It can be viewed from 20 June until 20 July 2008 at the Metropolitan Workshop in Farringdon as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Click through to see some more of Charlie's work.
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