Recently I visited the film museum of Turin in Italy and there the lavatory seats are derivatively famous because of the toilet signs;-)
Category: chairchez l’homme
Klassiker Lounge Chair by Minwoo Lee
Kassiker is the first lounge chair by South Korea’s own Minwoo Lee and it’s clearly designed for living. Love the warm color and ‘soft’ well-rounded edges, and love the designer’s belief that no other object “has more memories of human body than chairs”.
A slightly complex thought (due to interesting use of English language) from Mr. Lee:
“The more chairs are touched by hands, the more our bodies will remember its structure. Chairs also become perfect architecture and beautiful object with holding memories and history of human bodies. Klassiker chair is the one that chases comfort, durable structure and aesthetic beauty to offer architecture for people.”
Size: H1000xW700xD780
Color: Natural Wood / Oil Finish
Material: Wood
Found via mocoloco.com
Man Stool
I’ve just randomly stumbled upon this interesting, to say the least, stool on the internet, but unfortunately, don’t seem to be able to find any information about it or its creator. Regardless, it’s too good not to share!
Photo taken from here.
Mr. Chair by Soojin Hyun – Milan 2011 (24)
One of our FaceBook fans suggested after the previous post:
and why not try to influence some female designers to photograph their prototypes with lightly-dressed sexy men on them ?
Here is an answer. A female designer from South Korea, who graduated from the Dutch Design Academy in Eindhoven has worked it out for us all with her Mr. Chair: It simply doesn’t need a model having a six pack from itself:-). However with model it does catch eyes as well:
However, one has to see the front of the chair first before understanding this photo….
Designer : Soojin Hyun (Design Mong Studio), Sangho Park(VIN & Co.)
Photographer : Mina Hwang
Model : Misun Lee
During our research of chairs, we found that armchairs and men have a lot in common, Men have arms, skin, and muscles and comparatively, armchairs have arms, leather and cushion. Mr. Chair shows the commonalities with a dignified wit.
** we have a plan to show different colors of Mr. Chair, such as human skin has different colors.
Size : 884 x 872 x 1077mm
Material : Cowhide, Metal
via Design Mong Studio.
With a male model it certainly works better:
Via Vin and Mong‘s Facebook series from Milan 2011.
Now I’m daring the (male) Facebook fan to come up with a classy photo of himself on his own chair:-)
TweetingSeat by Chris McNicholl
Chris McNicholl™’s TweetingSeat is more than just a Twitter-themed bench, it’s an interactive seat designed to try and connect our digital and physical worlds. Each time someone sits down, TweetingSeat uploads an image from two cameras to the Twitter feed. One camera is located on the bench looking at the surrounding space, and another is located nearby looking at the people who use it.
Via design-milk.com