Category: uncomfortable seating

Glass Covered Chairs: Breaking the Bottle by Mark Reigelman II

 

Breaking the Bottle is an installation by Mark Reigelman II that is currently on display at Heller Gallery in NYC (runs till July 30, 2011).

With about 40 layers of over 1,000 lbs. of 100% recycled broken glass and 20 gallons of Epoxy Resin used to cover twelve typical household objects, including chairs, the tedious process took about three months to finish.

Reigelman on his installation:
“By fusing elements of protection with objects of the home, my installation debates the need for fervent homestead defense while pointing out the repercussions of over-protection and the impact it has on social dialogue.”

 

Via design-milk.com

2D/3D Chairs by Yoichi Yamamoto for Issey Miyake

When viewed from outside an Issey Miyake store in Tokyo, the blue chairs installed in the shop’s window by Japanese architect Yoichi Yamamoto appear to be just another collection of ordinary chairs, but in reality, they’re just wooden backs fixed to the floor – it’s the legs painted onto the ground that, from a fixed angle, appear in the correct perspective and make the chairs look whole. The installation is called 2D/3D Chairs.

Via dezeen.com

Love Hurts Chair by Jimmie Martin

After discovering the exquisite Jimmie Martin via the Song of Style blog, I went through each and every seating object on their website, and even though I practically fell in love with all of their creations and could come up with enough of words of appreciation for each one of them, this particular piece seemed to be especially deserving of its own post. Now how’s that for an uncomfortable seating with a meaning?

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Art-of-the-Spa-Twitter-invitation

Uncomfortable Seating

Out of the blue – I was invited by Candy Sylvasie of Art of the Spa to join an Uncomfortable Chair Party. What was it about? Candy had teamed up with Carrie A. Hansen of Snuggery Style and the two ladies of Moggit, Joy and Janet to organise an Uncomfortable Chair Party.

Part of the idea was to have a talk show and to have people submit their most uncomfortable chair to Snuggery Style’s FaceBook page.

Because the whole operation was scheduled on an hour I would be sound asleep, I would miss it anyway, but I couldn’t resist to offer the girls five of the most uncomfortable chairs we have featured on this blog:

Seat Down Please Pouf by Maria Kyrmosava 1) The Seat Down Pouf of barbed wire: Too prickly to sit on.

2 ) The Nano Chair, because it is really too small to sit on.

3) A prickly Cactus Sofa

4) The Shapened Pencil Chair, and

Egg Sofa5) The Egg Sofa

Which gave them a good laugh and me a good idea for this blog:

Because I have already too many categories (I know, in the opinion of some people a deadly sin against proper blogging) I’ve immediately added another one, uncomfortable seating, as a category. Thank you for this inspiration girls!

And then I received a transscript of the party:

Hehe and only now I understand what they meant: A hastag twitter chat #homespachat which they organize more frequently. I must have been under the rocks….

Anyway watch the category uncomfortable seating for more of our finds. BTW, what is your (un)fave?

Seat Down, Please Pouf by Maria Kymosova at 2011 IMM Cologne (7)

Seat Down Please Pouf by Maria Kyrmosava

Russian St Petersburg’s ArtFuture design school had a small, but interesting booth at IMM Cologne 2011. Here the barbed wire “Seat Down, Please” Pouf by Maria Kymosova…I believe it should read “Please Be Seated Pouf”. I had a laugh as many chairs at the exhibition had a sign “Please do not sit!” or “Please do not touch” which I find really really strange as a chair is an object to use, or is it?