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Deconstructing Design #3,645

Posted on 27, Feb

As it’s Monday morning, I just thought I’d witter on about luxuriating in designer stainless steel baths and mild steel beds. Now it’s quite easy to see the work in the bath: This insulated double walled bath is handcrafted with intense attention given to every detail, producing a bath that will stick in the minds [...]

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As far as negotiating your way to Butler Sheetmetal goes, this morning was as treacherous as you could get – black ice, freezing fog and a Monday morning head-mist do not a successful combination make. And that was sufficiently evident as I started to drift sideways down one particular side road at a rather jaunty [...]

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Front Porch of Metal House Here’s a pre-fabricated metal house designed by Jean Prouve currently showing at the Hammer Museum in LA. Interior of Prouve’s Metal House The metal house installation includes the two weeks it takes to put the thing up and the two weeks to take it back down again and finishes on [...]

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Manufacturing Blogs Round Up

Posted on 24, Oct

You might think it’s nigh on impossible to scythe your way through the current clutter of blog spam. I can imagine that many of you simply can’t be bothered. However, I’ve found at least three half reasonable related blogs, a couple of which have been knocking about for a while if their archives are to [...]

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There seems to be a glaring difference between the lot of a British sheet metal worker and that of his or her American counterpart. Most notably, there’s no mention of you falling off scaffoldings and welding your hands together from this job description from learndirect. “As his mind drifted towards his Liberace tribute act, he [...]

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