Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Joost van Noort and Maartje Nuy
The first Mart Stam | Thonet award for best chair design was awarded to Dutch designers Joost van Noort and Maartje Nuy with their design for a cardboard chair with the name Vouwwow – to pronounce as Vow Wow and which I would translate as Wow it Folds!
Via Lai
To my huge surprise Chair blog even made it into the shortlist in the category Art, Culture and Entertainment blogs of the Dutch Bloggies, but Mick! won this award. And deservedly so. Nice design! Congratulations Mick!
Despite my earlier skepticism I’ve made it into the second round of the Dutch Bloggies Awards.
I’ve been put on the long lists in the category
Art, Culture and Entertainment blogs
together with 9 other blogs originating from The Netherlands:
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Thank you, Jury!
Tomorrow Night will be Awards Night here in The Hague as my fine city sponsors the event …we will see.
Arghhh? Why
Timing couldn’t have been worse.
Last month KPN (Dutch Telecom) decided in its wisdom to stop web hosting for another site I operate. That induced me to look for another hosting company that I used already for quite some time for my two blogs.
I needed some reshuffling of my domains and then the problems started to hit the fan big time. It meant that all had to be transferred from one server to another server of my provider.
After having transferred this blog from one server to the other server I found out after the fact that I had lost many links to the photos.
I also had messed up urls and internal links of the blog and am now working my ass off to redress that in a cumbersome manual weeding out of the errors post by post (and there are over 1150 posts now….)
Although many have been repaired, there still remain errors….
At least the 2009 posts are more or less in order now, but still many to go…
In addition my new provider’s network crashed two times big time last week…
That’s why:-)
So if you are checking this out, please give me some leeway 🙂
I write this Blog in the English Language, but I’m based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Only about 5.5% of my readership here originates from The Netherlands. So I never anticipated this blog worthy for the Dutch Bloggies Award.
Surprise, Surprise: The Jury of the Dutch Bloggies deemed this Blog worthy for nomination among 300 other blogs for the public voting round that will close tonight 24.00 hr, after which 20 of the blogs with the most votes will enter the final round.
Also surprising is that my significant other blog Happy Hotelier was nominated too.
El Ultimo Grito’s Composite bench system for UNO was nominated for the Brit Insurance Furniture Award 2009
“It is very hard to come up with a new typology in furniture and more often than not the result remains very strongly in the realm of a suggestion to rethink existing options, but rarely does a new configuration present itself as a useful addition to the family of furniture. The composite bench/sofa does so by merging the bench height table structure with elements of upholstery.”
Via Design of the Year