Thonet No 10 Rocking Chair
Via Design +
….and back to the 2016 theme, as the Lovecraft theme misses the possibility to show tags at a post which makes it less practical to search certain items.
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Category: @About Chairblog and More
More about Chair Blog and its authors
Arch Chair by Douglas and Bec Snelling via Fábrica de Imaginación
The move of this website to the other hosting company took much more time than I anticipated, because I did’nt seem able to get the link structure as it used to be: “chairblog.eu/year/month/day/postname. After migrating the site I got a mere cairblo.eu/postnumber…..very bad for the Google ranking Chairblog has built up over all those years.
When I finally succeeded to get it right after more than a week puzzling and partly sleepless nights, you can imagine I was a bit euforic and ready to go full speed ahead again. Especially when I read back a compliment a fellow blogger made us 10 years ago:
I try not to let a week pass by without taking a good, long gander at the wares offered by our friends over at Chairblog, whose tenacity and persistence in ferreting out avant-garde designs never ceases to amaze.
Joseph Starr of 3 Rings
So I browsed around a bit and visited Pinterest and found, Koral Antolín, A young Spanish woman with a raving long curly red hairdo and her design/annex studio blog Fábrica de Imaginación
Fábrica de Imaginación is a DIY-inspired digital medium and creative studio based in Madrid founded by Koral Antolín in 2014.
Koral has a degree in Fine Arts and over the years she has not only put into practice the many skills acquired during her training, but has continued to grow artistically in the world of set design and photography to be able to compose visual stories to unleash to your tireless imagination.
BlogFactory of Imagination is steeped in the trends of today and tomorrow, selecting the most interesting objects and materials of the moment to create DIY tutorials for fashion and minimalist decoration.
Years of work and content creation on the blog have made it position itself as a benchmark for DIY (do it yourself) in Spanish on the web.The curiosity for the objects that surround us is characteristic of the projects of Fábrica de Imaginación. Discovering how these objects work has always been a key step for Koral, over the years, to have been able to deconstruct, reinvent, undo and reassemble them in a totally unexpected and original way. Every DIY specialist’s dream!
Creative studyAlthough Fábrica de Imaginación was born as a DIY design blog, it soon evolved to develop more complex projects, thus becoming a creative studio specialized in art direction, set design, props styling and photography.
The knowledge of these interconnected artistic disciplines has allowed us to develop a characteristic visual storytelling where the stories use composition, form, color and textures to come to life and surprise the viewer.
StoreStudio fi by Fábrica de Imaginación is its own brand launched in December 2018 to bring the original designs made by Koral closer to the public. A brand that was born from a passion for art and minimalist design and that is strongly committed to the artisan process with quality materials and to creations that last beyond time and trends.
Contact information
Designed by Douglas and Bec
We are a design-and-make studio producing contemporary furniture and lighting, based in New Zealand, with showrooms in Auckland and Melbourne. Our work explores the contrast of natural hand-crafted materials with elegant linear forms, searching for the perfect balance between tactility and poetry.
The provocation of fine art, the lessons of design history, and a dedication to immaculately beautiful craftsmanship inform our process. We believe in the honesty of pure materials, and in recognising the many hands and minds that help shape every piece of our work. We love the energy of creative collaborations with our fellow designers and makers around the world.
We are Douglas and Bec Snelling. Father and daughter. Designer and maker. Dreamers and doers both.
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Moved, new Theme, new Header and 14th Anniversary
I have moved the site to another hosting company, a Dutch hosting company VDX NL. In addition I have chosen another theme and another header, a photo of the Filo Sofa. Unfortunately the sofa is a one off project, but in my view it is a must have!
April 30, 2007, I started this blog, not anticipating how many chairs I would be able to feature. More than 5,000 already and going strong. Not paying attention to the real ugly or middle of the road ones….
14 years is the age of a grownup Teenager. I am 5 times older myself, but like to tell everybody who wants to know my mind and attitude stopped aging after my 14nth Birthday.
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999 Armchairs Book
More than 999 new and forgotten (arm) chairs
A week or 2 ago I noticed somebody wanted to contact me and traced me on al sorts of social media.
Why?
Mr Peter van Zoetendaal appears to be a Dutch artist and himself a chair designer, actually more a sofa designer. He created a photo book with 999 new and forgotten (arm)chairs. He is a great fan of Chairblog that had helped him to get a lot of inspiration in his search for ideas and sources for this book. Each A 4 page has 4 photo’s of an armchair and a handwritten note by Peter with the name of the maker or of the designer of the chair.
I received a copy last Saturday as a thank you for the creation of Chairblog.
On my turn I now have 999 more chairs to feature here on Chairblog, although a couple have their place already here. Please stay tuned.
The book is not available for sale. I’m honoured having received this token of appreciation. Thank you Peter!
Update April 14, 2021: In the meantime I have published 5 armchairs from the book and they all point back to this post. Time to make a 999 Armchairs Book category
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Set of 2 Armchairs by Studio BBPR at Phillips
Phillips will auction a pair of armchairs by Studio BBPR on November 12 and estimates them at £20,000 – 30,000.
Sold for £66,780
Studio BBPR
From each member’s family name, came the acronym “BBPR” of the partnership.
Gian Luigi Banfi was born in 1910 and passed away in 1945 in Camp Mauthausen.
Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso
Enrico Peressutti
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Ernesto Nathan Rogers (March 16, 1909 – November 7, 1969)The BBPR studio was formed in Milan in 1932 in a climate described by Giorgio Ciucci as “oscillating between differing and contrasting positions.”[1] Their contribution to the development of Rationalism is evident not only in their architecture but in their involvement with MIAR and the journal Quadrante born as a rival to Casabella. Their work held general appeal and was also appreciated and promoted by Edoardo Persico and Giuseppe Pagano at Casabella. Along with the editor Valentino Bompiani, the BBPR group is credited for the original idea for the Italian Civilisation building. The selection of the Guerrini-La Padula-Romano project was fraught with polemics since it is argued that their eulogy to the most Roman of architectural motif – the arch – is what won them first prize, a prize which some say deservedly belonged to the Milanese architects. Their adherence to Fascism was short-lived and they soon became members of the resistance: Banfi and Belgiojoso were imprisoned at the Mathausen concentration camp where Banfi died and Rogers, being of Jewish descent, was forced into exile in Switzerland.
The practice continued under the same name after the Second World War despite the death of Banfi in Mauthausen concentration camp.
The firm came to notice after World War II with the abstract design for the Monument to the Victims of Nazi Concentration Camps, erected within the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano. Located in the centre of an open plaza, its white, tubular frame encloses a glass cube that holds a mess tin containing blood-soaked earth from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria. Panels of black and white marble bear inscriptions about martyrdom and persecution, justice and freedom. Around the Monument, a series of tombstone-shaped plaques show an alphabetical list of names of Milanesi who died in concentration camps.
BBPR reacted against the polemic of the International Style in 1954, with the creation of the Torre Velasca in Milan, complete with its abstract medieval references. The tower responds to its prominent location near the Milan Cathedral in the city’s historic centre.
The firm were subsequently employed to create new interior spaces and exhibition designs for the museums housed within Milan’s Castello Sforzesco, which had been severely damaged by allied bombing in 1943.
source Wikipedia
P.S.
I’ve been working hard to move the site again to a new server. That’s the reason our e-mail followers received a notice of the Birth of Chairblog, a post that memorated an earlier change of server. Now the reason was that the site was hosted on a Centos version 6 server which Linux taste server software is coming to the end of its life span and has been replaced by Centos 7. There even is a Centos 8. Never a dull moment in hossting land.
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