Amazing Rudolph Hess Beach Chairs by Robert Wilson
Nickel plated steel
Originally designed for “Death Destruction and Detroit II”, 1987
78 x 200 x 61 cm / 56 x 200 x 61 cm
Edition 2/9
via Belgian Gallery Baronian Francey.
Category: chair collection
Chair Candy 2: MoMA | Ron Arad: No Discipline
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Currently the Museum of Modern Art in New York City has Ron Arad on display a few more days. I hope this excellent multimedia presentation stays online: MoMA | Ron Arad: No Discipline.
This exhibition is a sequel to the one in the Centre Pompidou earlier this year which I happened having visited. Now this post is off my chess I can go on with the Chair Candy series devoted to master Ron.
Chair Installation for London Design Festival by Martino Camper
Martino is at it again!
Wallpaper* magazine commissioned designer Martino Gamper to create a modern-day Chair Arch for the London Design Festival. Using Ercol stacking chairs as his building blocks, Gamper built two overlapping arches in the courtyard of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Chair arches, which are part of a British Victorian tradition, were constructed to commemorate special occasions
Via Mocoloco
A Royal Throne by the Horrix Brothers – Meubelenfabriek Anna Palowna
Two brothers, Matthieu (1815-1889) and Willem Horrix (1816-1881) started to build their furniture manufacturing company, Meubelenfabriek Anna Palowna, in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1850. The company was closed in 1890 after Matthieu died. Matthieu was the designer of the two. They had their training in the family business and in Paris. One of their famous chairs, a royal throne used at the coronation of William III as King of The Netherlands belongs to the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
I found this Horrix sofa photo somewhere on the Internet. Ah I now see the photo is probably from the The Hague Notary Public Auction House (Venduhuis der Notarissen) where two of these canapes were sold for Euro 800.- and Euro 900.- respectively in May 2007.
Two Horrix chairs can be found in the Delft Technical University Chair Collection (Architecture School TU Delft) .
Olivier Mourgue’s Bouloum Lounge Chair by Arconas
Canadian chair manufacturer Arconas (mainly utility and contract chairs) has re issued the Bouloum Lounge Chair of Olivier Mourgue.
The Bouloum Lounge Chair by Olivier Mourgue (1939) is as you can see made to fit the human body in the perfect lounging position. The Bouloum is part of the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art