Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
I’m mighty curious. Recently I’ve featured all Lathe Chairs by Sebastian Brajkovic thus far. Now Phillips de Pury & Cy is testing the waters:
Lathe VIII chair, 2008
Bronze, silk embroidered upholstery.
Produced by Landowski, France.
Number five from the edition of eight.
One leg incised with SB and stamped with Landowski Fondeur 2009.ESTIMATE £40,000-60,000
Sold for sold for £49,250
London based Julian Mayor sent us some photos to share one of his latest limited edition chairs, the Fernando, of mirror polished stainless steel.
Billet 1 Extrusion 5 bench, 2009
Extruded aluminium. 76 x 192 x 47 cm (29 7/8 x 75 1/2 x 18 1/2 in) Produced by Heatherwick Studio, UK. Underside incised with ‘Thomas Heatherwick/Billet 1 “ Extrusion 5/September 2009″.
ESTIMATE £32,000-38,000
SOLD AT £37,250
Upcoming: A colorful Verner Panton Conversation Chair no. S 420
‘Conversation’ chair, model series no. S 420, c. 1967
Fabric, tubular chrome-plated metal. 62 x 145 x 76 cm. (24 3/8 x 57 1/8 x 29 7/8 in.) Manufactured by Gebrüder Thonet GmbH, Germany and fabric woven by Unika Vaev, Denmark.
ESTIMATE £3,000-5,000
Designers Block UK is Di Overton’s inspirational Blog and there I found this Eiffel Tower Chair [update:] by Jean Christophe Bernard (as per Julia’s comment. Thanks Julia!). Jean Christophe designed it for French label Acrila