Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
The Magnolia Chair was designed for Artifort by Dutch designer Jacco Bregonje who is based in Milan.
According to Bregonje the Magnolia armchair “combines the better of two worlds: design and architecture. The organic shell seat is fully foam-filled and provides fantastic comfort.”
A reader pointed me to a page of a site in a language I couldn’t read let it be understand: www2.arnes.si/~sgaler/. Take the url to the Google Translator Page and you get some English out of it, but then search on Janez Suhadolc and you get an English page on the same site.
It became note worthy: The Chair you see here is the Light Chair by Janez Suhadolc. You can lift it with one finger, but the chair is able to bear the full weight of a person to sit on.
Janez Suhadolc appears to be a chair aficionado who not only constructs chairs, but also depicts them or combines them with pictures or posters or paintings of chairs.
The site is about a Slovenian Gallery “The Gallery of Fine Arts Slovenj Gradec”
The page describes an exhibition there of 2006 where Suhadolc exhibited chairs in a certain perspective.
JANEZ SUHADOLC: CHAIRS
‘It makes me feel good to be able to take a rejected piece of material and create a masterpiece with it, and one that is worth something. To me it seems as if a phoenix would rise out of the ashes.’
Janez Suhadolc
Janez Suhadolc, architect and graphic designer, Full Professor of freehand drawing at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, was born in 1942 in Ljubljana. He was not the only one in the Suhadolc family to have inherited the creative zeal from their father Anton Suhadolc, construction engineer and Jože Ple?nik’s co-worker. Janez’ older brother Matija Suhadolc also devoted his life to architecture, while woodcraft is present in the art of both the youngest as well as the oldest brother Anton Suhadolc, a professor of mathematics and a proud owner of an extensive art collection of wooden balls made from different kinds of wood.
Another note worthy detail is that Janez Suhadolc is generally known as the “Carpenter of the Pope” because when Pope John Paul II visited Slovenia in 1996 and in 1999, he each time created a papal chair for the occasion.
Well, now I have discovered this chair designer, I will try to show you more chairs of him in the future.
Featured as a first ever on 3 Rings
Cantilever Chair MR 20 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
P R O D U C E R
Metallgewerbe Müller
P R I C E R A N G E
5000 and more EUR
D E S C R I P T I O N
Cantilever chair MR20, 1927, Metallgewerbe Müller, Berlin. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Design 1927). Steel pipe, basketwork.
78 x 52 x 87 cm
Estimate price: 5000 euros
The auction is on Monday, November 23 2009 at 16.00 in Cologne.
R E F E R E N C E
Lot 407
Saturday I attended the first ever Wordcamp in the Netherlands.
I couldn’t leave without taking a photo of at least one chair: The Stick Stool by Gerard de Hoop I reported about on May 23, 2007:
I came across the Classroom Chair at a Phillips de Pury auction earlier.
Now NYC based J. Lohman Gallery has one for sale.
According to Lohman:
Stefan Wewerka
Vertreterstuhl or Klassenraumstuhlâ (Classroom Chair)
Germany, c. 1970
Lacquered wood
C. 30 ¾ in. (78 cm) high, 26 in. (66 cm) wide
Originally called the Vertreterstuhl, the chairs were part of an installation of a classroom at Galerie Moeller in Cologne in 1971. Since then the chair is also called Classroom Chair. Literature: Take a seat: Meisterwerke des Stuhldesigns (Masterpieces of Chair Design), Chart Gallery, Basel, 2005, pp. 102-103.Object No.: 8005
Price on request.
Lohman specializes in European design and decorative arts from the 1920s -1980s from mainly German designers and artistic movements.
A “Vertreterstuhl” is an Sales Rep Chair in the English language.