Month: March 2012

Top Posts Half February – Half March, 2012

1) Angelina Jolie & Smoke Armchair by Moooi: 527 views

Angelina Jolie & Smoke Armchair by Moooi

2) My Beautiful Backside – 2012 IMM Cologne (07): 498 views.

My-Beautiful-Backside-by-Doshi-Levien

3) Serpentine Armchair by Éléonore Nalet – 2012 IMM Cologne (06): 487 views.

Serpentine Armchair by Éléonore Nalet _MG_1317

4) More or Less Chair by Maarten Baas: 481 views.

More or Less Chair by Maarten Baas

5) Joe Colombo Chair 4801 Chair Reissued by Kartell – 2012 IMM Cologne (08): 471 views.

Joe Colombo Chair 4801 Chair Reissued by Kartell

Top Posts Chair Blog Half February – Half March, 2012

As usual this post is based on our FeedBurner stats of the last 30 days, so it also covers half of February, 2012.

I believe it is Julia’s first on number 1. Congrats!

Looking at it again I believe I’ll have to put the Joe Colombo photo a bit more strait than it shows here on the blog. {update March 19, 2012: Done]

Some changes behind the screens:

  • Again the hosting goes well with only little outages. We’ve fine tuned the backup procedure twofold: a) The hosting environment is protected by daily backups and b) we’ve added Vaultpress, a backup service by Automattic, related to the good guys of WordPress that registers any change here at the blog almost by the minute.
  • As of March 5 the blog is served via Cloudflare, protecting it better agains attacks and hopefully giving our readers a better experience with faster loading pages and posts. Please give us feedback about our load times. Is it better or worse in your part of the world?
  • Several posts had been posted with a service Clipmarks that all of a sudden has disappeared from the internet. (Again) I had to re edit many posts manually. Hence you’ve seen less posts than you were maybe used to.
  • I’ve adapted our FaceBook page to the new page lay out of FB. Unfortunately the little thumbs are not being served anymore on FB. I’m still fiddling around in the hope that goes better in the near future….
  • On top of each page I’ve put back the slider rather than the more conventional page navigation thingy. I missed the slider and I hope you too.
  • Oh, yes! I’ve said Good Bye to the Woopra counters. They were becoming too expensive anyway. Moreover Google Analytics now offers the same or similar functionality. Last 30 days 52,507 Visits and 133,971 Pageviews.

Hope to see you back soon!

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on March 19, 2012 at 12:39 PM

Layer Chair by Laufer and Keichel

Layer Chair

By German architects and designers Laufer and Keichel for Swedish manufacturer Offect. Offect has a very interesting and clear blog, an example for other manufacturers I would say.

Concrete Chair by Jonas Bohlin

Concrete Chair by Jonas Bohlin

Concrete Chair by Swedish designer Jonas Bohlin

Jonas Bohlin started off by making a kind of scandalous success in terms of offended Swedish functionalism at the 1981 graduation show at Konstfack, the National College of Arts, Craft and Design, in Stockholm. “We never quite recoverd from the shock his chair “Concrete” created in the Swedish design community”. Being meant as a piece of sculpture in an artistic installation, the chair of steel and concrete was obviously epitomizing a Swedish idea of post-modernism, why it was produced in a limited edition, and is currently a collector’s item.

Via Scandinavian Design.

Chair Tribute to Sigurd Lewerentz by Mats Theselius

Hommage to Sigurd Lewerentz by Mats Theselius

Hommage to Sigurd Lewerentz by Mats Theselius

Was presented at the 2012 Stockholm Furniture fair by Källemo

I got the idea when visiting St Petri Church in Klippan, together with my students last October. It is the last church Lewerentz draw, and, in mine and many others opinion, it is one of the most interesting pieces of architecture in Sweden.
The old copper roof was being replaced; immediately I thought to do something with the copper tiles together with Källemo.
The copper patinated sheets cover the outside of the chair. The chair is a play with, and a free interpretation of Lewerents ideas and materials used for the church.
The chair is very “non upholstered”. It consists of many independent parts not very much relating to each other, but together they form the chair. This is also how I experience the architecture.
To the chair there is also a special designed and jacquard woven textile related to the mosaic floor pattern like an alter cloth.
The chair is made in a limited edition of 123 pieces. This is how many copperplates we recovered.