About Making Works
Makingworks is a division of studio ai architects dedicated to sculpture, furniture, products and custom builds. Started with Louis Lim in 2011, Makingworks explore ideas through action. As its namesake suggests, during the physical process of making, works of art and design emerge. Yet, “works” are never complete, never static; they continually change through the way we use and live with them, through the memories and meanings we derive from them. They also simultaneously augment the way we live and think. Understanding that designing and creating are such reciprocal ...Read More
Featured Pieces
"Coco Drinks Wine", a Circular Table with Hidden Drawer Storage for Wine
By Louis Lim
Located in New York, NY
"Coco drinks wine" is a coffee table that actually holds 7 bottles of wine (one for each day of the week). Its unique hidden drawer adds an element of play and fun to its minimal for...
Category
2010s American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Birch, Plywood
Children's Bunk Bed, Loft with Below Deck Play/Study Area
Located in New York, NY
This is a kids' bunk bed. Ships flat and easily assembles with a simple cam and bolt fasteners. Pictured here are two full size mattresses. Main unit is lofted at 5 feet deck. Config...
Category
2010s North American Modern Children's Furniture
Materials
Plywood
Circular White Oak Round and Round Bench with Hidden Drawer
By Louis Lim
Located in New York, NY
Round & Round is a circular communal bench and storage unit that is balanced on one single line. Though appearing to be a solid mass, as one end of the bench is pushed, the opposing side pops open revealing itself to be a continuous hidden drawer...
Category
2010s American Benches
Materials
Wood
Loveseat Style See-Saw Rocking PacMan Bench
By Louis Lim
Located in New York, NY
Made from reclaimed white oak from an old vermouth barrel, Rocking PacMan is a bench about trust, balance, and opposition. Best described as a "loveseat see-saw", it requires at leas...
Category
2010s American Loveseats
Materials
Wood
El Cangrejito, Pentagonal Modular Coffee Table Walnut Edition by Louis Lim
By Louis Lim
Located in New York, NY
This pentagonal table is comprised of 5 identical open faced tetrahedron. Held together with brass barrel bolts, the unit can be disassembled and nested for compact shipping.
Pict...
Category
2010s North American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Walnut, Plywood
Coco Table, Round Circular Coffee Table with Hidden Drawer for storage
By Louis Lim
Located in New York, NY
Coco table is a round coffee table with a continuous drawer hidden in its entirety. Deceivingly simple and minimal in form, as one end is pushed, the drawer opens at the other, only to feed back into itself.
Pictured here is a black and white edition, with a bleached and white washed Baltic Birch exterior. The interior is stained black with an upholster drawer. The fabric is a faux Persian Fur...
Category
2010s North American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Plywood
3 Legged Round Side Table, Pizza Saver
By Louis Lim
Located in New York, NY
Pizza table
Measures: 17"diameter x 17" height
White lacquered plywood and maple side tables, inspired by pizza savers. The offset leg design allow thi...
Category
2010s American Other Side Tables
Materials
Plywood
Circular Interactive LED Lit "Mobius" Bench
By Louis Lim
Located in New York, NY
Mobius, a collaboration with 3form, is made with their new material: "Dark Chroma", a dark crystal infilled acrylic that transmits color with more vibrancy than standard diffusers. T...
Category
2010s American Benches
Materials
Acrylic
High back Giraffe Chair
By Louis Lim
Located in New York, NY
Both a play object and a high back chair, Giraffe chair is a cross between kids and adult furniture. The proportions allow children to use it as a drawi...
Category
2010s American Chairs
Materials
Plywood
Circular undulating wooden Greenwater Bench
By Louis Lim
Located in New York, NY
Rectangular frames and held together with fasteners and brass spacers to create an undulating serpentine bench. One half circle is created by five sep...
Category
2010s American Benches
Materials
Wood
Rectangular Blackfeet Straddle Dining Table
By Louis Lim
Located in New York, NY
Made from reclaimed Douglas fir, Blackfeet straddle is a dining table that seats 8-12 people. Four legs are tenoned into a 2" thick quarter-s...
Category
2010s American Dining Room Tables
Materials
Wood
Large Square "Triangulated" Coffee Table
By Louis Lim
Located in New York, NY
“Triangulated” is a coffee table made from four irregular tetrahedrons that lean on each other to create a perfect square in plan view. Held together with wooden hardware, it combine...
Category
2010s American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
