Knoll offers some Platner Chairs and Stools used in Quantum of Solace

Platner Side Table and Stool by Knoll
Knoll supplied 12 tables and 48 chairs designed by Warren Planer to the Bond film Quantum of Solace for use in final restaurant scene – and no they were not all blown up – A few Knoll dealers still have a few of the tables and chairs from the film set available to buy. The furniture pieces are supplied with a letter authenticating their use in the film.

Wedding Cake with Adirondack Chairs

beach chair cake

Via FabTravel I found this Wedding Cake with Adirondack Chairs.

LIVING COLOUR ‘THE CHAIR IN THE DOORWAY’ OUT SEPTEMBER 15 | Skope Entertainment Inc

Living Color Album The Chair

Living Colour will release their first new studio album in five years entitled The Chair In The Doorway on September 15.
Via LIVING COLOUR ‘THE CHAIR IN THE DOORWAY’ OUT SEPTEMBER 15 | Skope Entertainment Inc

YouTube – Singapore Magician Jeremy Pei, Chair Suspension Illusion

YouTube – Singapore Magician Jeremy Pei, Chair Suspension Illusion

High Chairs are Dangerous for Kids

High Chairs are Dangerous for Kids

Kelby Carr as Investigative Mommy Blogger[a site that has been restricted since I posted this] gave me the following impression: In 2007 a High Chair was the third cause of home accidents for little kids after shopping carts and…strollers.

Added March 9, 2009
Kelby gave me the impression by publishing a graph that I copied here, but was not at liberty to reproduce here so I took it away. See her comment.

What is left now is a bit of confusion: She makes a chart based on the Neiss Database, but admits in the comment High Chairs may not the third cause of injury for small kids….

Anyway, I had a look at the Neiss database as she suggested. BTW You have to use IE rather than FireFox as the JS to find the correct code doesn’t work with FireFox:

I searched on child carrier (code 1549). Online I could review 30 cases resulting from the search. In many cases something extra happened. Dad or mom tripped or fell or let the child carrier fall….so it is not so clear that the design of the chair carrier is at fault….

4052 – Other Upholstered Chairs gave no results…

The High Chair code is 1555. The Neiss estimate is 8,725 cases of injury related to High Chairs in the USA for 2007. The 30 cases I found online (I was not able to download the entire Neiss sample) also sometimes mention something additional happening.

What is more disconcerting is when you do a search for High Chairs the number of instances High Chairs are recalled for replacement because of defects or possible dangerous parts…. a must piece of information for chair designers…

Update March 12, 2009:

Via Twitter Kelly and I got some form of mutual understanding.

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on November 27, 2011 at 11:26 PM