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London Design Festival 2008 (8): Meet Rupert McKelvie’s In.Fold Chair


Some Background
Rather than copying and pasting other peoples finds in this blog and making it an online scrapbook only, I like to produce my own content. However, as a busy hotelier in Haagsche Suites and busy blogger at Happy Hotelier I don’t have enough time to do this as much as I would like. In addition I’m easily distracted by new finds, repairing wrong posts (finally most work is done with now) and merging my Tumblr log into this Blog. So I took a look in my 100 drafts for posts.

In September 2008 I was able to roam London Design week during 1.5 day and was able to visit Phillips the Pury’s Gallery, Tent London and 100% Design. I’ve published some posts in my category London Design Festival. I’ve many more posts in my sleeve yet.

This is also a caveat for some people who have send me material and are wondering: “Why the hell isn’t he publishing what I’ve sent him?” Have some patience with me.

Meet Rupert McKelvie

who I shortly met at 100% Design London in 2008. He was kind enough to demonstrate his extraordinary folding chair for me and my camera. And you know what? He intrigues me, because he is also a boat builder Like Matthias Pliesnig….. I have said once: “If I ever retire, I want to become a Venetian retro speedboat water taxi driver”. Yes, I keep on dreaming. Moreover there is another coincidence: I started this blog with a post about a folding/puzzle chair.

About Ruppert McKelvie

Rupert trained as a classical boat builder in Dorset for two years gaining a wealth of knowledge and discovering a true affinity with the making world. He then went on to build two 1950’s wooden Venetian speed boats currently moored in Devon. Following this, he continued his passion for design at University College Falmouth, completing a BA (hons) in 3D Design and Sustainability.

The marriage of these two disciplines is evident in his work, as elements of the maker and designer combine to produce furniture that is appealing, yet always practical.

About the In.Fold Chair
Take a flexible material and glue pieces of multiplex board against it in a clever way. Color the two sides with a different color and you can put the chair away without it taking much storage room, but also you have two chairs in one. A blue or a white one.

Clever piece of work Rupert and sorry it took me so long to publish this.

A Note to my e-mail Newsletter Subscribers

Hi all,

After having anounced the newsletter as a weekly newsletter last week, I’ve found out that last Monday’s newsletter missed a considerable number of last week’s posts.

It appears the automated program I use indeed picks the 5 latest posts from the blog only.

Therefore I’ve enhanced the frequency of sending this automated newsletter to daily in stead of weekly.

It means that whenever 5 posts are published an e-mail lands in your in box. That is not necessarily every day, as I have an habit of sometimes publishing bursts of a couple of posts on one day and sometimes publishing no posts on other days. In this way I hope the e-mail subscribers get at least an overview of all posts…

I hope I’ve not disturbed you too much, but in case you want to unsubscribe: Here is the unsubscribe link.

In case you haven’t subscribed and would like to subscribe nevertheless, here is the subscription link.

Chairs!

Update March 17, 2010

Again I was wrong. If I set the program to a daily newsletter, you’ll get the newsletter delivered in your mail box even if I’ve posted only one post. I think that is too much…so I’ve put it back on a weekly schedule with a note in it that it only contains my last 5 posts…always obliged to learn something.

New: Chair Blog’s Weekly e-mail Newsletter

Chair Blog’s second weekly e-mail newsletter has landed in several e-mail boxes this morning.

Two weeks ago I’ve started the weekly e-mail newsletter a bit silently by installing a widget to subscribe to the newsletter in the sidebar.

As of today there is also a link to Chair Blog’s Newsletter Archive in that widget.

If you like it you can subscribe using the widget or simply use this subscription link.

It is my intention to keep this weekly newsletter as unobtrusive as possible. It is only meant as an extra service for my busy readership only and in addition to the more common news reader subscription. The Newsletter will have no photos. If you like to have a quick overview of my postings, a newsreader subsciption will remain necessary. The e-mail newsletter will be just be a wrap up of posts from the past week.

Please note I’m still experimenting a bit. I noticed for instance that not all posts from the past week were included in the second newsletter. Maybe there is a limit to the number of posts that the program can handle. Then it might be necessary to send the newsletter more frequently (after I have posted a certain number of posts).

If the weekly newsletter would be annoying for you, you can always unsubscribe🙂

A big thank you to the early subscribers! They know who they are.

Haagsche Suites Com and Happy Hotelier Com temporary out of order (Solved)

I’m sorry, but both my blogs HaagscheSuites.com and HappyHotelier.com seem Out of Order…hopefully temporary.

I’ve created this post in order to be able to redirect traffic from both sites and inform the readers of both sites.  I hope this post can disappear ASAP [ED: deleting posts gives complications so the post will stay, but the matter has been solved luckily].

Update 1
Service provider indicates both are hacked via a so called “deface hack”.

Update 2
At around 2.00 pm everything seems in order again.

If you’re interested, read more about it at Welcome Back – We were Hacked. Thank you for your patience.