Category: famous chair

Panton Chair Sliced by Chriss Bosse

After – or even while – Rem D. Koolhaas had 3D scanned it and morphed it into United Nude’s Lo Res chair, Chris Bosse now has sliced up the 1967 Panton Chair as part of the Re-loved: designer stories exhibition at the Sydney Powerhouse Museum that runs from 31 July – 30 September 2010 during the Sidney Design Festival.

Bosse, director of architectural firm LAVA, is one of several designers commissioned by the Powerhouse to use a pre-loved chair to tell a story about a piece of furniture they love.

“We’ve chosen to represent this shape as slices, similar to an MRI scan in order to make visible its complex 3dimensional geometry. The chair is metaphorically and physically carved out of a sliced box, ” says Bosse.

via LAVA’s Blog.

Lo Res Chair by United Nude

The story behind this Lo Res Chair by United Nude is quite interesting:

United Nude is a brand founded by Dutch architect and designer Rem D. Koolhaas (not the Rem Koolhaas of OMA who is Rem D.’s uncle) and British 7th generation of famous shoe makers Galahad Clark. (I’ve walked on several of their Desert Boots).

The first shoe of United Nude is the Möbius shoe which was inspired by a chair, the Barcelona Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Now United Nude has teamed up with Rapidform and formed Lo Res Project. They had used Rapidform already to design several shoes and took this one step further. They scanned an existing design, in this case the Panton Chair and morphed it into something else.

So the circle is round: The designer who initially was inspired by a chair to design a shoe was now inspired by the design process of his shoes to create a chair.

The Well Dressed Chair – Reissued Tank Chair by Alvar Aalto


I found this nice photo by Jouko Lehtola in one of the NY Times’ blogs T Magazine Blog coined as Well Dressed Chair.

Actually it is a reissued Tank Chair by Alvar Aalto to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Artek, the company that Alvar co-founded, .

Stamp of the Revolt Chair by Friso Kramer

Long on my back burner, this Dutch stamp of the famous Revolt Chair by Friso Kramer.

Eames Chair Lovers should head over to Wright (2)

Eames Lounge Chair at Wright

Eames Child Chair at Wright

Time Life Stool by Charles and Ray Eames at Wright

Like I said: Eames Chair Lovers should head over Chicago based auction house Wright for the April 8, 2010 dedicated Eames Auction. This is part 2 of my Highlights