Most furniture has the business parts of its joints buried deep inside it somewhere. Screws hidden in hollow metal frames, screws driven deep into wood. The furniture made by Anton Alvarez wears its colourful thread joints on the outside. And the machine used to tie it all up is a beast.
Alvarez makes his pieces using the boringly named “Thread Wrapping Machine” but the name lacks in flair, the machine makes up in insanity. Seriously, this sucker looks like it should be spinning black holes or something.
The machine’s blocky, haphazard results are definitely pretty intriguing on their own, but that machine is just something else. Playing with thread never looked like so much fun. [Design Milk]