![]() The best option is to find a consigned/vintage or current piece of furniture to flip into a hip tiled item.Ī paint of choice. There are also a ton of great/cheaper/probably lighter items from IKEA if one is accessible to you. ![]() you can be the DIY queen and build a vessel from scratch but because I have zero woodworking skills/resources, I opted for this cube from Amazon. Best of all, you’ll learn some contracting skills that might benefit you in the future of home-owning/improvement (: I could not be more excited to share with you my 2 AM Home Depot next-day delivery impulse purchase: the sage green tile cube (or rather, the deconstructed version of it). Top it off with the internet’s obsession with tiling and my DIY heart is fluttering. Sage green is most definitely one of the “it” color of 2021 and I could not be more excited. Some people make a room look very classic and minimalistic with the more subdued colors, or achieve a more playful look with a table in one of the more bright and eye-catching colors. “They stand out and draw your attention, but at the same time blend in and synergize with any style. “The tables and cubes allow for various ways to use them, in a functional sense,” Amalie explains. Ikon København founders Amalie and Sarah Thorgaard believe that the versatility of tiled furniture is what resonates with people the most. Its playful aesthetic is similar in spirit to the wiggle tables and plastic furniture that have overtaken home decor (and my feed). “It functions as a side table, a stool, a nightstand, and more.” Wu considers the cube to be a high-quality piece that doesn’t compromise aesthetics, praising it as one of her favorite quarantine purchases - she’s even considering ordering another in a different color. “It’s more than a cute tiled cube,” she adds. Wu opted for the brand’s cube, as opposed to a console or coffee table, because she needed something smaller that could be easily moved around in her space. “It’s definitely part of the resurgence of ’80s and ’90s decor, which perfectly fits in with my aesthetic,” says Wu, whose loft conversion includes other postmodern-inspired pieces like a Gustaf Westman curvy mirror, Rotganzen bouncy side table, and Pieces by An Aesthetic Pursuit rug. She purchased one from Ikon København last September after moving into her new home in San Francisco. ![]() Vivid Wu, a fashion stylist and creative consultant, was intrigued by the cube after seeing it on Instagram. And while some may mock it for being part of the “avant basic” starter pack that also includes checkerboard and mushroom lamps, others find it arresting in the hard-to-look-away sense. He’s not necessarily wrong: The tiled cube gives off a specific kind of whimsy. “Some of the popular contemporary pastel-colored tiled tables seen on social media feel like they wandered out of a tween’s dream kitchen.” “The pieces feature a clean, simple grid pattern made of a silk-screened plastic laminate that the designers referred to as a ‘supersurface,’” says Freund. (Not to be confused with the newly launched Superstudio in Los Angeles.)Īccording to Anthony Barzilay Freund, editorial director at 1stDibs, the collective’s ethos was built around “revolutionizing the conventional approach to architecture and planning and replacing it with functionality.” Since then, it’s become a cult collector’s item - you can still find it today, but it’ll set you back about $4,550 - and is on display at museums across the globe as a prime example of the Radical Design style. And while the cube itself is somewhat new, the tile table it riffs on traces back to 1966 with Superstudio’s Quaderna table for Zanotto, which was designed by the Italian architects Cristiano Toraldo di Francia and Adolfo Natalini. Perhaps the most widely known manufacturer of the modern tiled cube is Scandinavian brand Ikon København, which has had a stake in the space since 2016, but other companies like Willow, Ktown Corner Store, P0LY, Fleur Studios, Good Behavior, and Occasional Pieces are also assembling modernized variations of their own. In the past few months, tiled cubes - equal parts objet d’art and functional furniture - have been popping up in the backgrounds of every Danish influencer’s perfectly curated home, at design studios and concept shops like Friends of Form, and even in the bathrooms of stylish seaside hotels. Square tile, the kind that seemed to cover nearly every surface back in the ’80s - from bathrooms, indoor pools, and mall interiors (now extensively documented by accounts like - has taken a new form.
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