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furniture recon

andy kem — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:18:19 +0000

I will be attending this year's ICFF and NY Design week for the first time. While kem3D will not be showing (this time at least), I will be checking out as much of the show and satelite events as possible, and you can follow along with my new twitter feed. See you in New York City.

new packaging for the breakplane lamps

andy kem — Wed, 02 May 2012 02:12:21 +0000

...Coming soon. I would just like to give a brief thanks to the fine folks at Michigan Box located here in Detroit for the great package design.

working on updating galleries

andy kem — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:26:41 +0000

Hey friends and followers, I've finally been able to spend some time updating and reworking the galleries, its a work in progress, so keep an eye peeled.

happy new year/mid-february!

andy kem — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:11:22 +0000

Whoa, where'd January go?

With the New Year under way, I am pleased to announce that I am now represented exclusively in Detroit by See Art Design, an affiliate of Re:view Contemporary, please contact them with any sales inquiries.

The Cocktail event at the Detroit Artist's Market was fantastic, lots of great furniture and fashion to take in, below is a picture of me and my submission taken by fellow designer John Kaloustian. This design is an adeptation of the Breakplane table, with a cabinet suspended between the legs for wine and liquor storage, I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

I am also currently working on variations of the Parabolic Stools (see here) with some different proportions, first with a larger stool, then into benches and possibly chairs

a few of the larger stool in progress:

I will also be working on some updates to the website as time allows, It may be a little different since you visited last, but its a work in progress.

Last but not least, I am already thinking about a large scale installation for September's Detroit Design Festival, so stayed tuned for that!

cocktail!

andy kem — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:10:07 +0000

...Is the theme of this year's Annual Design Show at the Detroit Artist's Market that I will be a participating in.

2012’S DAM DESIGN SHOW will celebrate COCKTAIL!

Thirteen local designers will share their own process of creating cocktail tables, side tables and bars, starting with sketches to the finished saleable product. During the exclusive Opening Event, DAM will once again host a runway show, featuring women’s cocktail evening wear by Emily Thornhill of Homeslice Clothing.

The ticketed opening is Friday January 12th, and the exhibition runs through February 18th, more info here

here is a teaser of what I'm working on for the show, hope to see you there!

knight arts blog mention

andy kem — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:30:01 +0000

Knight Arts stopped by Re:View Contemporary for the Re:Collect 2011 show an shared their thoughts here: "All about the details"

complex forms -> finished stools (part III)

andy kem — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:12:48 +0000

These are the finished stools, "parabolic" and "parabolic rocker", maple wth paracord caning, and walnut and maple with paracord caning respectively. Each is currently on display and for sale at Re:View Contemporary's end of year Re:Collect show. There will be more pictures of these added to the work>sit section of the site as well.

complex forms (part II)

andy kem — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:56:00 +0000

These are more process pictures of the pair of stools that I am making for the Re:collect show Re:View Contemporary. Our last installment showed the basic pieces cut out and some of the upper joinery cut. Following that was a lot of hand work to tune the joint's fittament, gluing, cutting and designing the joinery for the lower end of the pieces. Following that, assembly, shaping, beveling, sanding, drilling and finishing, oh my. Enjoy, next week I'll have some pictures of the pieces with the seats woven in.

fine tuning upper joints

test fit of all pieces

cutting out the final arches

final parts

joining the "feet"

routing the bevels

assembled and fully shaped, time for drilling the holes for the seat and sanding

drilling jig

sanded and finished with oil, time for the seat

complex forms

andy kem — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:37:11 +0000

I am working on two new pieces for the 2011 Re:Collect show at Re:View Contemorary which opens December 3rd. I am working in all solid wood for these, and on some of the most complex joinery that I've attempted to date, definitely learning a lot through this process, which I hope to apply to other pieces, including ones larger in scale.

Below are a few photos of the pieces in progress, there is still quite a bit of work to do.

check out WDET's new series comparing and contrasting detroit and berlin

andy kem — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:42:36 +0000

The main site for this great piece is here, and there is a segment on the creative class in both city's here.

There is also some online content for each segment, and I was featured in an audio slideshow that goes along with the Creative Class segment which you can watch below.

Creative Class from WDET on Vimeo.