Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
The Salon Armchair by Lee Broom is made of sumptuous fabric that is accentuated with stud detailing. The design was inspired by the curvaceous lines of 1930s upholstery so the finished result “echoes the iconic designs of luxury fashion accessories and punk rock couture”.
Have a look at how the Salon Armchair is made in Design Milk’s recent post.
Zebra Chairs….something different from the cowhides
Lou Read is an exquisite handcrafted armchair designer by Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet and fabricated by Domeau&Pérès for the Royal Monceau Hotel in Paris. Watch it being made in this video by Sébastien Jousse:
I’ve altered the title of this post as a representative of Domeau & Pérès has informed me that the Royal Monceau Hotel chairs are not the same as the Lou Read chairs. Domeau & Pérès have been working closely together with Philippe Starck Studio to develop this chair for the Royal Monceau Hotel.
Thereafter the further development of the chair has been licensed to Driade who have coined the chair Lou Read. Interesting! Especially since one of the most influential blogs Designboom doesn’t seem to make the distinction between the two editions. Furthermore it is interesting the Driade website doesn’t seem to mention this particular chair although I have seen it in their Milan showroom in September 2011 and could only take this photo through the window:
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Swedish industrial designer Bjorn Dahlstrom designed the De Nord Superstructure Easy Chair. The sculptural, leaf-like form is made of solid oak and comes in natural, black or white with an upholstered cushion in leather or fabric.
The chair has been added to the permanent design collection at Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum.
Via design-milk.com