Steel, Eames’ rocker base, scraps… The Nest chair by Misha Kahn is truly an object of art.
Via design-milk.com
Category: chair art
Aviator Chair by David Catta
This Aviator Chair by David Catta from Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, will be issued in a limited series of 5 and has 3000 hrs of work in it. Amazing!
David:
After spending three decades creating product designs and manufacturing process solutions in the field of custom industrial furnishings, I have had the opportunity to pursue my personal interest in artistic integration of aluminum, steel, wood, and polymers. Travelling in Europe and the United States, I was inspired by the work of other industrial designer/artists such as Mark Newson, and manufactured art objects such as Herman Miller’ Aeron chair (on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York).
With the Aviator series, I aspire to create an industrial sculpture evocative of early aviation that is functional, yet engages the viewer to embark on a journey – a journey to explore it’s seductive curvilinear shape, the handcrafted technical details that become visible through a slow walk-around, and the inner workings and subtleties that are revealed through the semi-transparent suspension fabric.
I do my own work and aim to achieve the highest possible level of proficiency with each material. I’ve spent over 3000 hours on design, building prototypes, crafting components, and completing Aviator 1. The process requires the mastering of technical skills and getting into the right head space for each phase of work. The work requires each element to merge together in perfect harmony: my ability to personally work each material and “flow” into the next is a gift I cherish and feel compelled to apply to my art.
There is no doubt in my mind that I am doing the right thing at this point in my life.
David Catta
November 12th, 2009
Bodywaves by Nobuho Nagasawa
Bodywaves is part of a chair installation together with a glass table and the artists umbilical cord in a petri dish and some gray hairs. The installation connects past and present for the artist. A rocking chair covered in optical fabric channels our dependence on water. A recorded video of ocean waves plays upon a chair that senses human heat once it is sat upon and glows brighter with the interaction.
About Nobuho Nagasawa
Based in New York City since 2001, Nobuho Nagasawa was born in Tokyo, and raised in Europe and Japan, and received her MFA at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. She came to the United States as a visiting scholar through the invitation of California Institute of the Arts in 1986, where she studied visual art, critical theory and music. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose site-specific work explores the places, politics, ecology and psychological dimensions of space and people. Her work involves in-depth research into the cultural history and memory, and extensive community participation.
Yellow You’re My Chair I’m Yours by Shigeo Fukuda
One month is too short to feature all interesting yellow chairs, or, to put it otherwise: September flew by.
This is the last post of September in our yellow chair series: A chair installation by Japanese artist Shigeo Fukuda.
Children of a Lesser God by Mat Collishaw
Sometimes you see a photo and want to know the background of it. Here in “Children of a lesser God” Matt Collishaw re enacted a Romulus and Remus scene in order to attract attention to many children from broken homes roaming the streets of Bethnal Green, near Matt’s studio: Two kids on an abandoned sofa guarded by wild dogs. One kid sucking a nipple of the farthest dog.
I took this photo last week in Torino at the GAM Turino.