At last year’s FLIP challenge, participants were asked to compose an original piece of piece of furniture employing two types of wood displaying artistic value. Four students of the Raffles Design Institute got down to work and when all was said and done Chew Kor Han, Try Budi Harso, Leo Saputre and Nicholas Relando had created the Kouzou Coffee table. Their design, a combination of the architectural principles of Blobism and Modernism combined the use of two interlocking woods native to the United States, to form one structure with a strikingly simple and curved look. Not only did that structure garner the students a Merit award from the Flip challenge, but it provided furniture fans a new place to put that occasional cup of java…or their numerous bound volumes of ancient Canadian photography.

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