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Red oak: crafting a sustainable future
Following news that Benchmark collaborated with leading design studio Foster + Partners Industrial Design to create ILE using American red oak, AHEC’s European Director, David Venables, sat down with Benchmark’s Managing Director, Martin Penrose, to discuss the latest product launch, the importance of expanding our timber choices and why views on red oak are changing.
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Règles de classement des sciages de feuillus de la NHLA aux États-Unis
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L’objectif de ce film est de fournir une explication simplifiée mais complète des règles de classement qualitatif d’aspect des sciages avivés de feuillus aux États-Unis. Ces règles de classement ont été mises en place il y a plus de 125 ans par la National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA). Aujourd’hui, la NHLA compte plus de 650 membres dans le monde entier et ses règles constituent toujours ...
Classificazione del legname di latifoglie americane secondo NHLA
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Lo scopo di questo film è fornire una spiegazione semplice ma completa delle regole di classificazione del legno duro americano. Queste regole furono stabilite oltre 125 anni fa dalla National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA, tradotto, la Associazione Nazionale del legno di latifoglie). Oggi, la NHLA conta più di 650 membri in tutto il mondo e le regole sono ancora lo standard nazionale per l...
Calidades de la madera aserrada de frondosas estadounidenses establecidas por la NHLA
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El objetivo de este vídeo es ofrecer una explicación abreviada de las reglas para la clasificación por calidades de la madera aserrada de frondosas estadounidenses. Estas reglas fueron establecidas hace más de 125 años por la National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA) de los Estados Unidos. La NHLA cuenta actualmente con más de 650 asociados en todo el mundo y sus reglas continúan siendo la no...
Communion and Pirouette | In conversation with the designers and makers
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This year, AHEC returned to Milan Design Week to present 'Communion' by Giles Tettey Nartey and 'Pirouette' by Parti, two extraordinary new works expertly crafted by Jan Hendzel Studio in sustainable American maple. Before the launch of the pieces at the Triennale Milano as part of the Wallpaper* Class of ’24 exhibition, we sat down with Giles Tettey Nartey, Eleanor Hill of Parti, and Jan Hendz...
Communion and Pirouette - extraordinary design and making in American maple
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Introducing Communion and Pirouette, two extraordinary new works expertly crafted by Jan Hendzel Studio in American maple - a valuable yet underused hardwood - showing at the Triennale during Milan Design Week 2024. Communion by Giles Tettey Nartey explores culture, culinary tradition, and the rituals of domestic life in Ghana, in the form of a food-prep table of an epic scale. Pirouette by Par...
An explanation of the American hardwood lumber grades by NHLA
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This video workshop provides a simplified but informative explanation of the grading rules for American hardwood lumber. Presented by Dana Spessert, Chief Inspector of the NHLA, the rules were established over 125 years ago by the, then newly formed, National Lumber Association (NHLA). Today the NHLA has over 650 members worldwide and the NHLA rules are still the national standard for the U.S. ...
Future Heirlooms Turkey
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"Future Heirlooms Turkey", conceived and led by the American Hardwood Export Council in collaboration with The Circle and Yonga Mobilya, showcases the intrinsic value of design, materials, and craftsmanship in furniture production. These meticulously crafted pieces hold the potential to become cherished family heirlooms passed down through generations. The project aims to support Turkey's emerg...
Natural Connections | Nube by Álvaro Catalán de Ocón
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With the aim of connecting material and people in a playful, conscious and nature-focused way, the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) has invited leading Spanish designers to create three pieces of furniture for public spaces, designed to help people encounter and rediscover nature. Taking inspiration from the traditional wooden blinds of Mediterranean towns, Álvaro Catalán de Ocón interpr...
Natural Connections | La Manada Perdida by Studio Inma Bermúdez
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With the aim of connecting material and people in a playful, conscious and nature-focused way, the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) has invited leading Spanish designers to create three pieces of furniture for public spaces, designed to help people encounter and rediscover nature. Inspired by the Matadero building, previously a slaughterhouse, Inma Bermúdez and Moritz Krefter (Studio Inm...
Natural Connections | Wrap by Jorge Penadés
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With the aim of connecting material and people in a playful, conscious and nature-focused way, the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) has invited leading Spanish designers to create three pieces of furniture for public spaces, designed to help people encounter and rediscover nature. In his project Wrap, Jorge Penadés investigates a new application of wood based on the cardboard tube produc...
Dezeen Talks | Three by AHEC
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In celebration of the launch of Three as part of 3daysofdesign 2023, AHEC invited architecture and design journalist and editor, Amy Frearson, to the exhibition space in Copenhagen to sit down with the three designers of the project, Pia Högman, Anne Brandhøj and Anna Maria Øfstedal, to discuss their making journeys with their assigned timber, what it is to be a woman in a male-dominated indust...
Three | 3daysofdesign | Cured Series by Pia Högman
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“If you work close with a material you will find something interesting that you want to make other people see.” Pia Högman takes us through her thinking and the process behind ‘Cured Series’, a set of five matching chairs, made in American red oak and treated using different finishes to highlight both the long and end grains of the wood. ‘Cured Series’ is one of three extraordinary pieces, all ...
Three | 3daysofdesign | Sno Collection by Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng
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“I trust the process and my intuition within it to make good choices.” Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng takes us through her thinking and the process behind ‘Sno Collection’, a trio of furniture objects that celebrate the designer’s signature free-form geometries, made in American maple. ‘Sno Collection’ is one of three extraordinary pieces, all made using sustainable U.S. hardwoods, showing in ‘Three’ ...
Three | 3daysofdesign | Inner Beauty by Anne Brandhøj
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Three | 3daysofdesign | Inner Beauty by Anne Brandhøj
Kurunpa Kunpu
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Kurunpa Kunpu
SLOW Spain : Slow design for fast change
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SLOW Spain : Slow design for fast change
External Review - A collaboration with Australian designer Tom Fereday
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External Review - A collaboration with Australian designer Tom Fereday
The Home of Hans Bølling
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The Home of Hans Bølling
A seat at the Table by AHEC and Riva 1920
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A seat at the Table by AHEC and Riva 1920
SLOW: slow design for fast change
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SLOW: slow design for fast change
Discovered: Designers for tomorrow
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Discovered: Designers for tomorrow
The Story of Designposts
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The Story of Designposts
Daegyu Kim - the Design Museum
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Daegyu Kim - the Design Museum
Megan Makinson - Shoreditch, Shoreditch Design Triangle
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Megan Makinson - Shoreditch, Shoreditch Design Triangle
Kate Woodcock Fowles - Clerkenwell, Clerkenwell Design District
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Kate Woodcock Fowles - Clerkenwell, Clerkenwell Design District
Jason Brooker - Greenwich Peninsula, Design District at Greenwich Peninsula
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Jason Brooker - Greenwich Peninsula, Design District at Greenwich Peninsula
Faye Greenwood - Waltham Forest, William Morris Design Line
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Faye Greenwood - Waltham Forest, William Morris Design Line
Darta Shokrzadeh - Peckham, Southwark South Design District
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Darta Shokrzadeh - Peckham, Southwark South Design District
Carrie Coningsby - Islington, Islington Design District
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Carrie Coningsby - Islington, Islington Design District