German Designer Steffen Kehrle made this homage to Sol Lewitt. A non seateable chair. However as easy it could be attributed to Gerrit Rietveld and his Steltman Chair
Via Sedia, Stuhl, Chair, Chaise & co..
Category: uncomfortable seating
Tribute to Testuo : the Iron Man
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TETSUO
Tecnica mista – Mixed Media
Sedia , fil di ferro , catene , ganci , vernice , acrilico – 56 x 30 x 26 – 2011
Tetsuo ” chair ” – Tributo a Testuo : the iron man , film di Shinya Tsukamoto
Virtual Banana Chair
Have to share this Virtual Banana Chair with you.
Via You The Biscuit.
Priceless Chair
Priceless Chair
This strong photo came along on FaceBook and I placed it on Chair Blog’s FB Wall with the caption Priceless Chair. When I opened FB this morning it appeared the photo had attracted over 40 likes itself. That got me curious about its provenance. Unfortunately it appears there is no larger format available at the moment. The sign next to the person is barely readable apart from the Text Them Home
Text Them Home
When I searched on Text Them Home I hit the source. It turned out the Los Angeles based charity The Weingart Center partnered with ad agency David & Goliath to promote the “Text Them Home” fund raising campaign that integrated homeless volunteers and art.
Street Art Project for the homeless
A chalk artist used the sidewalk as his canvas and drew simple, yet realistic scenes around homeless individuals lying or sitting on the street. A sign asked for a $10 donation to the Weingart Center accompanied by the message: “Text Them Home, text HOMELESS to 50555 and help the 50,000 Homeless in LA find a new place to call home.” MSG/ DATA rates may apply. Full terms at mGive.com/T and read the privacy policy. All proceeds will benefit the Weingart Center’s many homeless assistance programs.
I’m just wondering why they didn’t use social media more and better to spread the word.
UPDATE: To make it more convenient for all of us, here’s a little more insight on the project left in the comments section below by Jordy who works for the Weingart Center (the one that launched the Text Them Home campaign). More information on the campaign can be found on their website here, as well as on their YouTube channel here (including the video in which the photo above was taken). The first photo in this post is also a new addition.
Chairs Suck! Good Chair Design is Impossible!
Chairs Suck! Good Chair Design is Impossible!
Claims Colin McSwiggen in Jacobin, a NYC based internet magazine.
Collin says:
…Chairs Suck! All of them. No designer has ever made a good chair, because it is impossible. Some are better than others, but all are bad!
His piece is worth reading and gives us something to think about. Chairs can be dangerous for our health.
What makes chairs so awful for the body? That’s a complicated question to answer, because different chairs get different things wrong. Uncomfortable chairs typically put adverse pressure on some part of the body or require excessive muscular work in order to sit. This can cause soreness and encourage the sitter to adopt slouched postures that restrict circulation, impede respiratory and intestinal function, and lead to musculoskeletal injuries.
Comfy chairs are even worse. By encouraging the sitter to remain in a single static position for long durations without moving, they put extended, unrelieved stress on the spine, weaken the muscles that support the body’s frame and prevent injury, and cause the same circulatory problems as their less comfortable counterparts. And that’s just the beginning.
He continues with a long piece that chairs are thrown upon us by our rulers and by the industrial revolution.