Category: chair art

Lock of Love – Ultimate Valentine’s Chair by Bliss

Lock of Love - Ultimate Valentine chair by bliss

BLISS-LOCK-OF-LOVE-PHOTO-MONIQUE-BENTHIN

I realize I’m one day late, but I can’t help it, I only discovered it today and I don’t want to save it for next year. This Chair installation by the name Lock of Love is created by Rotterdam, The Netherlands, based artists Bliss. It is a public chair. It even has a standard to put your camera in front of it to capture you and your beloved, if you like. Ultimately it is the maker’s intention that you bring your own lock, put your name and the name of your beloved on it, click it to the chair and throw the key in the canal, referring to an Italian fairytale promising that as long as the lock remains there, your relation will last….poetic, isn’t it?

Discovered in the Dutch Newspaper NRC, on the blog of Reinier de Jong, a Dutch chair designer, and on Enter The Mothership which has more photos.

Update:
Ande here the photo/article of NRC, because you can clearly see the locks already added:

Liefdesmedaillon-by-Bliss-in-the-NRC

Gone for the Season Chair and Table Sculpture by James Sagui

Gone for the Season Chair by James Sagui
Gone for the Season Chair and Table Set by James Sagui
Gone for the Season Chair by James Sagui In Progress
Gone for the Season Chair by James Sagui Start
James Sagui allowed me to feature his wonderful Until Next Year, Gone for the Season Project….Actually it is a set, a sculpted chair with a sculpted table. It deserves a place in our Chair Art category.

Currently he has his studio in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.

Chair With a Wedding Dress by Florence Doléac

Paris based Florence Doléac has dressed a chair with a poetic felt wedding dress made entirely by hand. She was inspired by an old tradition in Kyrchyzstan: The mother gives her daughter at her wedding a carpet of felt. Each stitch represents a day of happiness for the new couple. Florence’s dress has an infinite number of points that intertwine like long hair. The title for this object is “La Chaise Mise en Nu”. I would translate it as “The Chair Exhibited in its Bare Existence (or Meaning)”.

Date: 2002

Materials: felt wool rope leash

Design: Doléac Florence – Paris, France

Slow Design: Limited edition of 30 copies, parts made locally, recycled materials (felt) and natural (wool), heat, poetry, softness, and praised the couple’s daily happiness.

Unusual Chair by Allen Jones

Unusual Chair by Alan Jones
Some time ago Oddee posted about 20 of the World’s Strangest Chairs. Most of those mentioned we’ve featured already in our category unusual (currently with 115 posts). However I had not seen yet this chair that Allen Jones designed in 1969 and which is part of the Tate collection.

Wait… a Chair Ring?

If you think what you see is a chair, think again. It’s actually a Chair Ring! Yes, the kind of a ring you wear on your finger. I’m sure though, it would look equally as interesting if it was big enough to sit on. The Hand Engraved Chair Ring pictured above is by Kent Perdue

Ken:

“I like to use my Chair Ring to experiment with different ideas I have. This one was very exciting to see come alive. I made a chair ring about twice as tall as normal and engraved a brass plate that I then attached to it’s back. The chair was painted white and sanded back to give it an antique distressed look.”

About the designer:

Ken Perdue received a BFA in Crafts and Material Studies with a focus in woodworking and furniture design from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2009. He is interested in making furniture, jewelry and other sculptural forms using a wide variety of techniques and materials.

Note: The link to Ken’s Etsy portfolio has disappeared.

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on November 30, 2011 at 5:44 PM