Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Joost van Noort and Maartje Nuy
The first Mart Stam | Thonet award for best chair design was awarded to Dutch designers Joost van Noort and Maartje Nuy with their design for a cardboard chair with the name Vouwwow – to pronounce as Vow Wow and which I would translate as Wow it Folds!
Via Lai
Inspired by the EU directive to phase out low efficiency light bulbs by 2012, In Praise of Shadows explores the designer’s response to lighting, shadow and efficiency. Drawing together works by designers from across the EU, this project brings humor and beauty to the challenge of energy and light efficiency, and explores the potential of alternative energy sources.This display is commissioned by the European Union National Institute for Culture (EUNIC) and curated by Jane Withers.
Via David Report
Bentwood Rocking Chair after a design by Thonet.
Estimate * £800 – £1,200 ($1,216 – $1,824)
Sale 5903, christie’s interiors 19 May 2009
London, South Kensington
At Christie’s
Designer: Michael Thonet
c. 1870
Description: Rocking chair with a dark wooden frame, and cane seat and back.
History: This is a replica of the 1870 design. The rocking chair was relatively unheard of in Europe until Thonet designed this piece.
Museum Collections: (University of Dundee)
Thonet S 32 Mart Stam and Marcel Breuer
Via Design Art News.