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We’ve Migrated to Amsterdam

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After enduring may outages and database errors we’ve decided to change hosting from a London based Virtual Private server to an Amsterdam based Virtual private server in the hope the site will perform better than it did lately. Also I hope now that this has done, we can go back to publishing a lot about chairs!

In addition I’ve now moved the social thingies to the top of each post. I believe they are important to enhance the chair lovers community, even at a cost of page load time.

If you want to read more about the ramifications, I can point you to the post on our sister blog Happy Hotelier: To VPS or Not to VPS?

Thank you all for all your patience with us.

Also, if you wish to give us feedback about our performance, please do so here, or on our FB page.

Tennis Balls Chair by Remy and Veenhuizen

Tennis Balls Chair by Tejo Remy and Rene Veenhuizen

Tennis Balls Chair by Remy and Veenhuizen, Photo © Pattrick Paassen of arttriq, but see also his photos at Flickr.

Blogging about chairs is hard work and sometimes very frustrating.

Do a search for “é” here and you will see several posts misfitted. Behind the screens I’m trying to repair the errors. The reason is that recently we lost all posts and we had to restore a backup. The problem that occurred is that the “é” (e emphasis Egue) came back as “é” thanks to the stupid computers. So we lost for instance links to photos that have an é in their name here …..one of those was the photo of Remy and Veenhuizen’s Ontmoetingsplekhek or TheFenceWithaBench. The correct spelling of Rene is René…. While searching for the photo that off course had disappeared from the computer I was working from, I came across the above photo of their Tennis Ball Chair.

Many things came together at once: I had an incentive to repair the posts dedicated to Remy and Veenhuizen first. They are Dutch Designers. Chairblog is a blog founded by a Dutchman (me). The talented young photographer is a Dutchman as well. Moreover by bringing together a nice looking Dutch Girl with a nice looking chair (or bench if you wish) with a traditional and very typical landscape of the 19 mills near Kinderdijk…actually the location is on the Unesco heritage list under the name of…Kinderdijk/Elshout (and what is my name?) …so I had to share this with you all, because it made my day and my frustration has ebbed away…

It also made me change my name from GJE into my full name.

Chair Blog’s 4th Anniversary


American Airlines Seats

American Airlines Seats
from our most viewed post

Chair Blog’s 4th Anniversary

On April 30th, 2007 I started this blog wit 3 posts. Only last year I remembered to celebrate 3 years of blogging.

I’ll copy and paste some stats here from the WP Stats Plugin. These stats are far from complete, because the plugin has not been installed consequently during the lifetime of the blog, but it may give you an idea of our all time favorites.

Total Stats

  • 3 authors to this blog.
  • 2,533 posts were posted.
  • 7 pages were created.
  • 0 tags were created.
  • 1,504 comments were posted.
  • 475 different nicknames were represented in the comments.
  • 4 links were added.
  • 1,528 post categories were needed.
  • 2 link categories were needed.

10 Most Commented Posts

  1. Sit Decent Chair – 11 comments
  2. Zeed Armchair by Sara Leonor – 11 comments
  3. Istanbul Street Bench: Sit on a Book for a change – 10 comments
  4. TweetingSeat by Chris McNicholl – 10 comments
  5. Meet Our New Contributor Julia Osovskaya – 9 comments
  6. Sit and Read Furniture Blog – 8 comments
  7. The Living Chair “Jack” by Arthur Bodolec – 8 comments
  8. Lo Res Chair by United Nude – 8 comments
  9. Emeco: An Old Chair Manufacturer Goes Nude – 7 comments
  10. Lushpad – Fritz Hansen’s Poul Kjaerholm PK22 Chair-Cool! – 7 comments

10 Most Viewed Posts

  1. Luxury Airplane Seats – 10,426 views
  2. Puch stool by Ron Arad – 6,460 views
  3. Sensory Deprivation Skull Chair by Atelier van Lieshout – 5,377 views
  4. Chair Paintings (1): Van Gogh Chair – 5,373 views
  5. Emeco: An Old Chair Manufacturer Goes Nude – 3,358 views
  6. Rietveld: by Cassina, by Rietveld and by Jenner – 3,259 views
  7. The Edward VII Love Chair – 2,604 views
  8. Philippe Starck: Toy Chair (1999) – 2,512 views
  9. Stump stool by Eberhard Bosslet – 1,774 views
  10. B&B and Zaha Hadid: Moon System – 1,420 views

Thank you all for your support!

What are your favorite posts?

Uncomfortable Seating (1)

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Uncomfortable Seating

Out of the blue – I was invited by Candy Sylvasie of Art of the Spa to join an Uncomfortable Chair Party. What was it about? Candy had teamed up with Carrie A. Hansen of Snuggery Style and the two ladies of Moggit, Joy and Janet to organise an Uncomfortable Chair Party.

Part of the idea was to have a talk show and to have people submit their most uncomfortable chair to Snuggery Style’s FaceBook page.

Because the whole operation was scheduled on an hour I would be sound asleep, I would miss it anyway, but I couldn’t resist to offer the girls five of the most uncomfortable chairs we have featured on this blog:

Seat Down Please Pouf by Maria Kyrmosava 1) The Seat Down Pouf of barbed wire: Too prickly to sit on.

2 ) The Nano Chair, because it is really too small to sit on.

3) A prickly Cactus Sofa

4) The Shapened Pencil Chair, and

Egg Sofa5) The Egg Sofa

Which gave them a good laugh and me a good idea for this blog:

Because I have already too many categories (I know, in the opinion of some people a deadly sin against proper blogging) I’ve immediately added another one, uncomfortable seating, as a category. Thank you for this inspiration girls!

And then I received a transscript of the party:

Hehe and only now I understand what they meant: A hastag twitter chat #homespachat which they organize more frequently. I must have been under the rocks….

Anyway watch the category uncomfortable seating for more of our finds. BTW, what is your (un)fave?

Curating Chair Design – Pinterest or Cribcandy?

Mosaiik Bench by Annika Göransson

Found this Mosaiik (=Mosaic) Lounge Chair by design student Annika Göransson via contemporist.com via Tapeten on Pinterest

General
If you check out my My Saga about Chair Blog – Tumblr and other Curating Tools, you’ll understand why I’m always experimenting with social tagging or social curating.

With Chair Blog I would like to become one of the main online repositories for everything chair related. After starting on my own I’ve found two very helpful contributors and we hope to find more in the future.

You then also understand why I love a quote by another fan of us: Joseph Starr (who himself is a much better writer on the subject than I ever hope to be) of 3Rings

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.

Crib Candy
We really like to be frequently quoted by Crib Candy and I like the way how you can easily flip through their categories like chairs, seatings, sofas or stools. Just a screen full of photos in a small size, but a size just big enough you can recognize the model and easily flip through. A Long time ago I’ve even created Wists. Whist is one of the sites related to Crib Candy. I almost forgot. However, it seems that the Cribcandy network has stopped somewhere to develop its site. There is no social element in it. Furthermore it is unclear who is behind the site and there is none to hardly any interaction on the site.

Update November 2015: Between the comments David Galbraith chimed in as the man behind Cribcandy and many more interesting things all over the web (see David Galbraight . org. He promised curation com, but it seems Pinterest has taken all the momentum….

Pinterest
Pinterest has a similar lay out as Cribcandy. Pinterest derived its name from to pin. You can pin a note to the wall. Its intention is that the “members” or “contributors” create and share portfolios. I has created a small bookmarklet with with you can place a photo on your pinboard. You can also Re-Pin an object. Repinning has a huge disadvantage, because each time an object is repinned, it appears in the Pin Board of the one who Re Pins. Cosequently you get a lot of doubles…not so much a problem with a limited number of Pinners in the current Bêta phase, but when it takes of there will definitely be a problem.

Pinterest is still in Beta. So you need an invitation. I got one and discovered I’m a source already over there: Pinterest Source | Chairblog. This is very helpful, like the FB Like it gives the poor lonesome blogger a bit feedback what his readers seem to like.

Now I’ve created my own page at Pinterest: Chair Blog | Pinterest.

(P)Interesting to see how it will develop.

Note: I discovered Pinterest first via a post of US based furniture company Herman Miller.