Eric Jacoby Design is a product design company whose emphasis is on modern furniture and toys. However Eric’s training and license is in architecture, and in many way Eric sees this current endeavor as an expansion of his architectural career. . . .
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Thank you to Utah Construction & Design Magazine for the awesome article which tells the origination story of Eric Jacoby Design, and Eric’s background at Jacoby Architects.
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We Are pleased to announce that our Tectonic Folding Chair has been nominated for the 2018 i-novo Design Award. Thank you ArchiExpo!
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A simple and sustainable approach for designing and making modern wooden toys To avoid waste, we utilize what we call “the sushi technique” for our furniture. The technique is based on our observation of how a sushi chef separates the different cuts of fish by quality, then distributes them into different types of sushi: the highest quality cut, sashimi, is served as a simple bite-sized slab of fish - alone and beautiful. The second quality cut goes into nigiri; a nice cut of fish on a bed of rice. The lowest quality cut is smaller and more irregular in shape so it...
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Although our company utilizes a lot of digital technology, our finished products are meant to be the antithesis of high-tech electronics where the technology is completely hidden (and somewhat alienating). Instead, our designs are intended to celebrate the way the products are made, and the way they function - sort of like diagrams of their technology. This principle is our most important one and drives the rest of them.
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