Blocks by Erik Stehmann

Netherlands-based designer Erik Stehmann explores using simple materials and basic techniques to build a table and chair. “Inspired by the typical ‘woodworker’ sentence: ‘Glue is stronger than wood’, I experimented with glue and wood to test this phrase. After testing lots of different types and brands of glue I discovered a glue that succeeded. By cutting a beam up in blocks, and gluing it together as a beam again, it became even stronger than the original beam,” Erik explains

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Blocks by Erik Stehmann

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