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Furniture that sounds when you use it
The work this post covers and every source it draws on, each linked to the original.
The workAudible Furniture (Hemmo Honkonen), on the Dutch Design Week 2026 programme ddw.nlOther sources
Images, slide by slide
- Slide 1
- A white studio with a dark carved wooden bench, a pale blue stool with a ribbed upright, and two slim wooden pieces mounted on the wallPhoto: Ville VappulaMuseum or journal record
- Slide 2
- A tall wooden wall piece of three rounded lobes that opens on a hinge, showing a lighter wooden handle and a round brass fitting insidePhoto: Ville VappulaMuseum or journal record
- Slide 3
- Diagram in three boxes: you use it, a part of the piece moves; it vibrates, the material and the air; you hear it, acoustic sound made by the movementImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against Hemmo Honkonen press kit 2487; OpenStax College Physics 2e 17.1 (source lines drawn on the graphic)Museum or journal record
- Slide 4
- A pale blue stool with a rounded base and a tall ribbed upright against a white brick wallPhoto: Ville VappulaMuseum or journal record
- Slide 5
- Close view of the corner of a dark wooden bench with deep carved grain and a long slot cut under its topPhoto: Ville VappulaMuseum or journal record
- Slide 6
- Close view of a pale wooden wall piece with a zigzag edge casting a sharp zigzag shadow on a white wallPhoto: Ville VappulaMuseum or journal record
- Ring frame
- Wall clock with a tapering case under a pediment, Rijksmuseum (BK-NM-3451)Frame: Rijksmuseum, PD, croppedMuseum or journal record