Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
UK-based Gray Concrete created this concrete Chesterfield sofa for exhibiting at 100% Design London. The sofa is made by taking a mold from a real Chesterfield, which is then used to make a glass textile reinforced casting. The cushions are a part of the casting. Before making the mold, the padding inside the cushions was replaced with a rigid foam which was modeled to make “bum prints.â€
Recently we featured the Alphabet Chair by Dutch Designer Roeland Otten. France based Tabisso approaches the Alphabet and the chair more from a promotional point of view: Promote your brand with their Alphabet Loungers…
Via TABISSO – Chairs.
Received an e-mail from a Chair Blog fan:
Your blog is wonderful.
Thank you for doing such a thorough job and for sharing your information and observations with the rest of us.I too am a chair fan and I have an original vintage Hans Wegner Valet chair that is unusable because the hinges were not on it when I purchased it. I wonder if in your journeys across the web you may have found a source for rare chair parts or another Hans Wegner collector that has valet chair hinges. From one chair lover to another I greatly appreciate any input you may be able to offer.
It would be great to actually be able to sit on this special piece.
As the hinges photo shows they are really special. Decided to post the question here to help our fan. Glad to oblige. Anybody an idea?
Found the Valet Chair photo in an excellent post about Hans Wegner furniture at the Chinese language blog I Design and the hinge photo at Live Auctioneers
Mia @Etsy was inspired by her husband’s passion for Eames chairs and created this modern desktop calendar. It’s just a colorful treat to please my day.
Found this photo at Global Grind. It shows Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Price committee, last week during the Nobel Prize giving ceremony. The empty chair next to him was reserved for Liu Xiaobo. Liu Xiaobo is a Chinese dissident as we say in the Western world, but a criminal according to the Chinese Government. He had won the 2010 Noble Prize for Peace….Hm, I see many people from China visit this blog. Would China now attempt to block this blog as well?
Amazing how a chair, an empty one, can become very political…
On a different note: It seems a good habit that Nobel Price laureates autograph the chairs in Kafé Satir at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm. Here you see Ei-ichi Negishi autographing one…so to see a Thonet Chair… on 6 December 2010.