Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
aluminum or aluminium chairs
The futuristic Hex Chair is the limited edition piece by British-born, Hong Kong-based Michael Young. It’s made from die cast aluminum in a complex, lost wax gravity injection process performed by Chinese engineers and will be displayed at Design Miami from November 30th to December 4th by Swedish gallery Modernity.
Acciaio Series (“ah-chyah-yo” – Italian for ‘steel’) is a series of steel chairs by Max Lipsey inspired by the bicycle.
The collection consists of a chair, lounge chair and a stool that are fillet brazed using steel bicycle tubing with the seating made of perforated leather and aluminum sandwich – a combination that creates a truly lightweight chair. Acciaio comes in 16 colors, where each color is named after a classic bike builder. This way the yellow stool becomes a Tom & Lou stool, see the image below!
And as if Designboom had heard me yell “Yellow, Yellow HoHoHo” it posts almost simultaneousley with my prior post a Yellow Bachag Chair by Korean designer Joongho Choi. Additional feature: You can carry it – almost – as a Ba(ha)g.
Blast by Israeli designer Guy Mishaly are stools created by explosion.
The objects start out as geometric shapes made of metal sheets that are webbed with explosive material. The explosion changes the generic shape into an object identified as having a unique character, and the effects of the explosion will always yield different objects.
Each Blast stool is made by detonating a charge inside a steel blank, ripping legs out of the sides so that every one is unique, and as no material gets lost in the explosion each stool has the same weight before and after detonation. Watch the making of the Blast stools:
BLAST chairs by explosion from Guy Mishaly on Vimeo.
Via dezeen.com
The aluminium Balloon Bench by Japanese studio h220430 appears to be floating in the air, lifted by clusters of polyethylene balloons, whereas in reality it’s suspended from anchor points in the ceiling, which are then concealed by the balloons.
Via dezeen.com