Nemo or Mono Chair

Mono Chair by Nancy Beckham and Jane Issa
The Nemo Chair – or Mono Chair in the USA – is distributed in the US by Miami, Florida, based Nancy Beckham and Jane Issa who have formed Beckham & Issa. They are two hotel entrepreneurs who met while operating hotels in Jamaica and have partly focused on the Lloyd Loom process and represent the British Lloyd Loom of Spalding.

About Lloyd Loom

Lloyd Loom is the name given to woven fabric and furniture that was invented by Marshall Burns Lloyd in 1917. It inspired a generation of furniture designers in the 1920’s and 30’s, associated with the art-deco period and the classic ocean-going liners of the time and it remains a timeless and classic style of furniture that endures to this day. It became immensely popular in the UK before the London factory was tragically destroyed in the war, spelling an end to large scale production.

Lloyd Loom fabric weave is made from twisted paper and wire and the frames are traditionally made from steam-bent beech wood. The furniture is renowned for its longevity and durability. Inferior models imported from the Far East, still widely available, are made on flimsy rattan frames which have neither the strength nor the longevity of real Lloyd Loom.

Via Design Milk.

Thonet Rocking Lounger

Thonet Rocking Lounger

This Thonet Rocking Lounger will be auctioned in a couple of hours at Wright. Estimate: $4,000 @ $5,000.

Update 1:
and sold for $3,500

Update 2:
Rather it is a J&J Kohn Rocking Lounger

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on November 18, 2011 at 10:49 PM

Hache Armchair by Danilo Calvache

hache-chair-by-Danilo-Calvache

Danilo Calvache has designed some new chairs recently. One is the Hache.
Via Danilo’s Blog

Blue Wheelbarrow Chair for Two by Neil Whiteleaf

Blue Wheelbarrow Chair for Two
Some time ago the blog Leave it at the Reception Desk pointed me to this Blue Wheelbarrow Chair.

‘Double-u’ barrow seat – concept and design by Neil Whiteleaf, deconstruction and refabrication of 2 Haemmerlin wheel barrows and paint by Martin Bulled – Aug 2010 in South Western England. Fabric – Kvadrat ‘Sudden’.

Nice to find another mono subject blog that really digs into a subject like we try to do. Moreover, regular readers here will know there is an overlap in interest since I run a small hotel (whithout a real reception desk by the way).