Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Vitra introduced Chairless, a sitting strap only, designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena in Milan.
Aravena was inspired by a similar sitting strap commonly used by the Ayoreo Indians living in the border region between Paraguay and Bolivia. A portion of the proceeds from Chairless will go to the non-profit Foundation for Paraguayan Indian Communities, for support of the Ayoreo Indians.
Via Cool Hunting
Eons ago I asked permission to feature this cool chair related T-Shirt and then forgot about it until now…
Classic Chair Design
Sometimes function over rules style.
Eames Lounge Chair by Charles and Ray Eames – 1956
Old Sparky Electric Chair by Huntsville Inmates – 1924
Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio – 1966
via “Take A Seat!” T-Shirt Design by rubyred [1122590-6] – RedBubble.
How to celebrate your 65th birthday with an awe invoking chair balancing act 12,400 ft and something above sea level in the French Alpes..
Exhibit Hire in the UK is a company specializing in furniture for exhibitions. They have various interesting chairs on stock among which lightened chairs for presentations and exhibitions, like this Chubby model.
Update:
As per the first comment the lightened chairs are from Italian manufacturer Slide Design and there I learned what I thought already: These are Marcel Wander’s Chubby Chairs.
Last edited by gje on February 8, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Brilliant! I didn’t check out Boing Boing for quite some time, but they really “do” Chairs and in an extraordinary way. Video reviews modeled after the famous British TopGear TV series. This one is about two Herman Miller Office Chairs.