Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
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Finally our new sofa has arrived, the Storm by Dutch manufacturer DYYK. The shop in The Hague Lasas & Loekov from which we bought this sofa named it Yellow Mellow, while the song was named Mellow Yellow
A huge painting or photo for above the sofa is on my whish list.
From time to time my poor Chairblog doesn’t get any attention from me. I leave it floating on its own. Poor blog. And then a new Januari is on the horizon and again I think: “Shall I (re)start with daily posts as I did in 2023 and 2024?”
Then I find the following message from September 6, 2012 in a newly discovered pile of messages:
Hello Guido J. van den Elshout !
I am a furniture maker from Copenhagen. I love chairs !. Thank you for your fantastic Chair Blog (and archives !).
Henrik Ingemann Nielsen, architect
It’s a bit stoopid. Only this month I discovered a whole archive of forms that people dutifully submitted and which I have never seen or looked at before.
Among it a message from Henrik Ingemann Nielsen, an architect from Copenhagen that today I see for the first time. The website he mentions (modelhotel.dk) doesn’t operate anymore, but in Googling his name I found a link to Bukowski which features this chair that he apparently designed together with Alexander H Damsbo.
He has a presence on linked in, but never posted there.
There are more compliments in those posts. There are more than 500. There is a pile of new inspiration for posts in the near future.
I feature Henrik’s message here because I like a pat on my back from time to time. I have some followers who get an e-mail when I post here and I have some followers on my weekly newsletter that is automatically sent weekly when I post here. A goal I didn’t reach in al those years of blogging is people who react here in the blog to posts. Only an occasional reaction.
An interesting feature of the H C Andersen Wingchair is it can fold into a sort of side table:
Today is our 17th aniversary. I started this blog April 30, 2007 and this is post 5,475.
The “Flock” furniture collection draws on the idea that home is a place of comfort, sanctuary, and gathering and should be filled with personalized, character-rich, and eye-catching statement objects.
Soft, voluptuous, sensual forms, natural materials, and pleasant-to-the-touch surfaces reflect a desire for warmth and cocooning.
“Subtly curved artistic silhouettes, soft fabric, and wooden legs define the furniture’s relaxation and cuteness. We wanted to create furniture that would become part of the family, intimate and beloved,” – said Kateryna Sokolova, designer of the Flock collection.
The name “Flock,” which means “to move or come together,” refers to the collection’s role as a peaceful oasis and the main meeting space within the home.
Designer: Kateryna Sokolova
Materials: wood, plywood, foam rubber, injection-molded soft foam, textile
Dimensions: H 72 cm, W 90 cm, D 99 cm | seat H 44 cm
Ukrainian industrial designer Kateryna Sokolova was born in 1984.
She is co-founder and creative director of the brand NOOM and SOKOLOVA design studio.
Design team working in a wide range of disciplines: furniture, lighting, hardware, electronics, environment.
Kateryna graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.
And held an internship at German Design University “Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle”
She is master of Industrial Design.Participant and winner of a lot of European design exhibitions and competitions.
The most important of them Red Dot Design Award 2015.
From 2011 till 2017 collaborated with French company Jarre Technologies, related to develop and design video and
musical hi-tech product around the name and the experience of famous french musician Jean Michel Jarre.
Today, Kateryna is an internationally established designer based in Kiev.
Collaborate with European and Asian companies.
Among clients: Ligne Roset, Jarre Technologies, Forestier, Bolia, Roche Bobois, Casala, Driade, Noom.
I see I have an enourmous backlog in showing my own photo’s here. This is mainly because I haven’t taken the time to find a proper title on many occasions or noted even creator or designer. The main reason for starting now to work on this is the fact that I now can try to identify the chairs I took photo’s of via Google lens.
I first believed this is the Ralph Lauren Hudson Street lounge chair, but it is a replica. I’m missing 4 nuts on the sides…I had hoped Maison & Object in Paris would have banned a replica….but not….Eichholz “works with in house designers err I would say copiists”
Luckily I had a photo of a tag.
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Chairs!
gje
A Happy 2024 to you all. Like last year I’ll try to post at least once per day in 2024. Last year, after Easter, I stopped when I was hospitalized for 10 days and had to lie down for a couple of weeks. Then my whole rhythm had disappeared. A new Year with new chances!
Lot 140 at a Wright Auction (same as lot 140 at the Lama Auction) shows us:
one of Pesce’s two original studies for the Feltri chair. The felt is covered in rubber, which allows it to be washed and waterproofed. This prototype’s base is made of bent felt treated with a rigid resin; this idea was later abandoned because of the materials’ fragility.
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Chairs!
gje