Category: armchair

The Making of a Smoke Chair

Smoke Chair

Smoke! video by Gwenael Lewis from Moooi on Vimeo.

After the nice photo of Angelina Jolie in a Smoke Chair, now a poetic video of the making of a Smoke Chair by Maarten Baas.

Angelina Jolie & Smoke Armchair by Moooi

Angelina Jolie & Smoke Armchair by Moooi

Sunday treat for ya’ll:

Angelina Jolie looking gorgeous in a Smoke Armchair designed by Maarten Baas for Moooi in 2002.

Via Creative Magnet

Rex Armchair by Mats Theselius

Rex by Mats Theselius
Rex Armchair by Mats Theselius.

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Mats Theselius
Rex armchair
Kallemo
Sweden, 1990
leather, enameled steel, cherry
28 w x 37 d x 29 h inches

This example is number thirty-one from the edition of 200. Signed and numbered with applied manufacturer’s label to underside: [Theselius Rex Mats Theselius Kallemo KB No. 31/200 Vernamo, Sweden].

Estimate: $5,000–7,000
Result: $7,200

Via Wright

Serpentine Armchair by Éléonore Nalet – 2012 IMM Cologne (06)

Serpentine Armchair by Éléonore Nalet _MG_1317

Serpentine Armchair by Éléonore Nalet _MG_1316

Last year I showed you Éléonore Nalet‘s Serpentine chair as part of the IMM young designers exhibition.

This year Ligne Roset took the Serpentine in production and showed it at its IMM Cologne booth.

I show the visitor in the second photo to give you an idea of the chair’s size, as it is not so big.

New Chairs from Seung-Yong Song: Object-A, Object-B & Object-E

New chairs by Korean artist and designer Seung-Yong Song are part furniture, part art objects, part art installations:

Object-A: “I am looking in every nook and cranny of the room to find hidden spaces. Under the table, beneath the bed, above the wardrobe… All the space in the room is completely full of odds and ends. There’s no other choice. And I start building my object like the city’s tallest building seen from the window in the room.”

Object-B: “I climb on a chair. I put books on a ladder. If things are freed from their own unique functions, we might agonize over how to use this objects.”

Object-E: “The unique name of things limit the range of product’s shape and function, but above all, the fact that there exists stereotyped function in accordance with each unique name suppresses my imagination. I am not willing to deny or destroy the identity based on the stereotype, but I only reinterpret the uses I need in my own design language.”