Budo by Marieke De Backer
innovative design by Marieke De Backer
Young furniture designer, Marieke De Backer, designed BUDO, a duo of two pieces of furniture with the same design principles.
Made of recycled oak wood, the legs of the designs each rotate 90 degrees relative to the previous one. The woven straps are belts from the sport Taekwondo, run all the way through, in one piece, and fastened with a slide buckle. The design's name, BUDO, derives from a branch of Taekwondo from which these belts originate.
Made of recycled oak wood, the legs of the designs each rotate 90 degrees relative to the previous one. The woven straps are belts from the sport Taekwondo, run all the way through, in one piece, and fastened with a slide buckle. The design's name, BUDO, derives from a branch of Taekwondo from which these belts originate.
CART is a rack and side table, born out of the need for furniture that is easy to disassemble. The furniture is connected by Cartesian nodes with wing nuts. The design can be disassembled without tools and flat-packed for transportation. This makes it easy to take the furniture apart during a move. The pine wood is stained green and white. With the remaining wood, Marieke made the side table.
Cart by Marieke De Backer
Budo by Marieke De Backer
Marieke De Backer is a 23-year-old recently graduated interior architect from Sint-Lucas in Ghent. She furthered her studies in furniture design (VOMO) at Thomas More in Mechelen.
Marieke is currently finishing a postgraduate program in Circular Building, in which she's deepening her interest in ecological construction projects and circular materials.
She hopes to further cultivate her passions for ecological materials, ephemeral designs, and traveling in the future.
Marieke is currently finishing a postgraduate program in Circular Building, in which she's deepening her interest in ecological construction projects and circular materials.
She hopes to further cultivate her passions for ecological materials, ephemeral designs, and traveling in the future.
