Sitting with your beloved Ghost
ca. 1895-96, “Spirit of a lady unknown curiously robed in flowers. Empyreal [sic] light on the sitter.” , Richard Boursnell and J. Evans Sterling
Category: chairchez l’homme
Emeco uses Tumblr for Chairvertizing – 111 Chair Project
I love it when an old family owned company like Emeco tries new venues. For its 111 Chairs Project it gave 111 influencers 111 type 111 chairs and interviewed them at the same time….The interviews can be found on 111 Navy Chairs, a Tumblr Blog.
I feature the Kirk Dina interview as it fits our Chairchez L’Homme series perfectly.
I retumblrd it an then use Press This to create the body of this post. It works fine now.
Director and Storyteller, Kirk Dianda is best known for his ability to intimately capture people and their story on film. With a passion for skateboarding, his first creative pursuit straight out of high school was 411VM, a skateboard video magazine. The success of 411, launched an industry of its own, producing films and videos, video game content, commercials, music and music videos, with Kirk as the Creative Director.
For a peek into his world, check out his avant-garde blog; OPP (Other People’s Posts), an ongoing collection of likable products and stories, stolen from throughout the web on a daily basis.
Kirk Dinda thanks Emeco here
via 111navychairs – Kirk Dianda.
Ice Cube Celebrates Eames
In the late ’80s, before he became famous as a member of the Compton, Calif., gangsta-rap group N.W.A., Ice Cube studied architectural drafting at a trade school in Arizona. This biographical detail explaines the rapper’s appearance in a new video celebrating midcentury design icons Charles and Ray Eames
An excellent addition to our Chairchez L’Homme series.
Via the NYTimes.com.
Dual Cut Chair by Kitmen Keun
Take a block of foam and cut it with well measured cuts and voila you’ve made yourself a multifunctional chair. That is what Hong Kong designer Kitmen Keun did for the Belgium based manufacturer Six Inch
Einstein and Thonet
Albert Einstein
leaning against a Thonet or Thonet alike bentwood chair in Madrid, 1923.
I received this photo today as a nice surprise for publication here from one of our Spanish readers, Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz. Thank you Álvaro!
The big question for me is now: “Is it a Thonet chair, and, if so, what model?” Note the leg ends resting in copper or zinc pods.
Excellent for our Chairchez L’Homme series.
Update
Álvaro suggests in a comment this is the Thonet no. 20. However, I’m not sure or just headstrong . My first reaction when seeing the photo was: “Not a Thonet”, because if you compare the diameter of the back with the body of Einstein, the bentwood back is almost arm thick. Usually a back of a Thonet Chair is much thinner. However it is very well possible: I’ve checked Swiss Thonet expert Dieter Staedeli’s gallery of Wiener Moebel: He comments:
Thonet No.20 chair of Vienna, around 1872. The model went into production 1870-71. The early 20s are made in a very strait and not very comfortable back design. But this very chair form is exemplary for the first production models and are sought after collectibles. At about 1875 found in all models of Thonet chair gradually switching to ergonomic back forms
Update 2: A Thonet or not a Thonet?
Further to the comment of Geert, I found a nice Bentwood dedicated blog which featured a Thonet (Halb?)fauteuil no 20:
Update 3: Chairvertizing
I’ve added this post to our Chairvertizing series. What is better than to use a famous person to make your chair (more) famous, or the other way around: Take a famous chair to become (more) famous yourself;-)
Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on December 15, 2011 at 5:36 PM