Category: chair craft

Sam Maloof

I found this excellent 1982 interview with Sam Maloof by Barbaralee Diamonstein – Spielvogel on Youtube.

What a modest and great man and chair designer that was.

The interview is part of the Duke Digital Collections, also on Youtube as Duke archives.

Corvo Chair by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance for Bernhardt Design

Corvo Chair by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance for Bernhardt Design

Bernardt Design will unveil this Corvo Chair by French Designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance in Milan next week.

A Biedermeier Chair and Sofa by Josef Danhauser

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Where else than in Vienna can you find excellent examples of Biedermeier Chairs?

I found this one in the shop window of a Viennese antique dealer. He offers five of them for the bargain price of Euro 8,000.-

This example is from the atelier of Josef Danhauser. It dates back to approximately 1825.

In addition I took a photo of a nice Biedermeier Sofa. As I took the photo after business hours, I’m not sure about the provenance of the sofa.

Revisited: Erika Winters – Mexican Chair Redesigner

Erika Winters Logo

The logo from Erika’s Blog

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The nice Polka Dot upholstery fits wonderfully with this 60ies style chair.

Erika Winters Polka Dot

But also with more dated chair design…

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A model like this will “sell your work”  undoubtedly. More of this please!

I introduced you to Erika Winters earlier on February 21, 2008. Since then she has been very active.

  1. She has enhanced her Design Shop website Erika Winters Design
  2. She has uploaded many of her re designed chairs and sofa’s to her Coroflot Portfolio
  3. She even has started a blog Erika-Winters.blogspot.com

I would like to make a couple of suggestions to Erika:

  1. Do away with the flash on your site…it is much too wild and not functional.
  2. Also see to it that one can find your complete portfolio on your own site as well as on Coroflot
  3. If possible combine your site with the blog. That gives you an opportunity to create a historical narrative about your portfolio..
  4. In any case bring the design of your blog more in line with the design of your site
  5. Do give us more photos of your portfolio with yourself as a model. I believe you do sell
  6. I love the polka dot upholstering you were using here which shows us it is usable both for more ancient chair design and pure 60ies chair design.

I hope Erika doesn’t mind me a to be a bit critical. What are your thoughts?