Woopy and Snoop by Karim Rashid for B-Line

Designer Karim Rashid has created this rotational-moulded chair for Italian furniture brand B-Line. Called Woopy, the hollow plastic chair is moulded in one piece, and can be used indoors and outdoors. An accompanying footstool, called Snoop, has two pockets reaching into its legs and can be stacked to form a bookshelf.

As usual, lots of color and eye-pleasing shapes! What’s interesting is that Karim’s website calls Snoop a table, but I guess if it’s good enough to be stacked and thus turned into a shelf, one might as well use it as a stool, as Dezeen suggests. Woopy, on the other hand, exists both as a chair and as a tall stool.

Via dezeen.com

Tatik Bookcase Chair by Tembolat Gugkaev

Tatik by Tembolat Gugkaev

Russian furniture designer Tembolat Gugkaev has his own take on the chair for bibliophiles.

White Books Chair Installation Awarded


Last year I posted about the White Books Chair project of Enzo Iorio. Yesterday I received an e-mail from Enzo informing me that the installation had won the honors of the Cartasia Biennial of contemporary art, held in Lucca, Italia, with main focus on paper art. Congratulations Enzo!

Console Bookshelf by Stanislav Katz

Console Bookshelf by Stanislav Katz

Console Bookshelf by Stanislav Katz of Katz

Recall the Cave Book Case Seating by Sakura Adachi? Here’s another bookshelf-chair combination designed by Stanislav Katz a few years ago. Although I’m not really convinced that it’s comfortable to sit on, but I find the pink and black attractive and is a great showcase piece. The dimensions of the Console Bookshelf is 210 cm x 60 cm x 90 cm for those whom are interested.

Richard Hutten in Design Museum Gent

Richard Hutten exposition in Design Museum Gent (Belgium)

After the White Book Chairs Installation in Italy now see Richard Hutten in his stacked books chair in Gent, Belgium.

Richard Hutten, Design Museum Gent

18 years of playing

February 26 – June 6, 2010

Richard Hutten (born 1967) is one of the most well-known and most unconventional Dutch designers. He graduated in 1991 at the Design Academy in Eindhoven and fairly quickly garnered international recognition.
In his own design studio he produced designs for furniture, products, interiors and exhibitions.
Hutten is a conceptual designer but his designs are highly functional, each and every one of them. Often the object will even have multiple functions.
Design museum Gent gives Hutten the assignment to give shape to the exhibition himself. The result will certainly show this, and will be telling of the convincing and typical style of Hutten.

Via Design Art News.