Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
born and educated in Spain, currently based in London. Zeed was first presented at Tent London 2010. There is a welded steel and wooden version. Zeed is an excellent chair for chair installations. You can also sit on it when it is put upside down.
The Blow Sofa (Black) and Blow Sofa Red by MALAFOR. Made from 100% recycled paper dunnage bags. It is easy to transport when deflated and simple to inflate. Each section can be personalized with a pen and if the cushion gets dirty, it is inexpensive to replace.
MALAFOR stands for Main Laboratory of Form, started in 2004 by two Polish designers, Agata Kulik and Paweł Pomorski who went to the faculty of design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland.
Via Design Milk, but it can also be found on Art Syndicate that represents various designers.
Discovered Yves Macaux, a Brussels, Belgium, based dealer who offers very interesting chairs for sale among which this Chair attributed to Joseph Maria Olbrich, one of the Viennese Art Nouveau designers around 1900.
Discovered RetroStart, or rather I believe they found us via twitter. This real Web 2.0 site is a must visit for those who are interested in Mid Century Design. They pointed me to the set of 4 Chaplins by Gerard van den Berg for Montis at Moetkunsten, a Dutch distributor of new and second hand chairs.
Found Fardos by Brazilean designer Ricardo Fasanello at ESPASSO who specializes in modern and contemporary Brazilian furniture and is based in NYC.