Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
(Photo Credit: James Martin/CNET)
Cnet has an excellent multimedia coverage of the much awaited IPad presentation by Apple’s Steve Jobs yesterday.
I’ve a feeling the easy chair is a LC Le Corbusier derivative, but am not sure…have to source more photos from the net.
Do you have an idea?
One of my readers would like some help from other reader with determining the provenance of this interesting S Curved Plywood Tripod Chair.
Browsing the web I could only come up with the following more or less similar chair designs:
The Bellevue Chair by French architect painter and sculptor Andre Bloc and
Brasilean Sergio Faher’s Commo Chair
However both lack the characteristic rib reinforcing the back. Any ideas?
Remember me showing you this mystery steel chair frame with chrome finish way back in July 2008?
Recently I got an e-mail from Bill Johnson of Retro Vegas who believes he found a bit more about this chair over at an auction site Live Auctioneers who attributed this chair to Tony Paul / Raymore.
However a comment to the post attributes the chair to Edward Higgins…He has one with gold finish and original seating. I hope he reads this and provides a photo of his one.
Ah there is a site devoted to Tony Paul who is alive and kicking at 90: Tony Paul Design and it is a blog. So I asked them to comment here.
One of my blogging friends who has discontinued his site (appears in 2013) asked a question who could determine this chair.
One of my readers gave the answer within a day. Simone, who is connected with Austrian Designer Thomas Feichtner (about whom I have to publish much more) pointed us to the site of Sawaya and Moroni. The chair is the Maxima Armchair of a whole series of Maxima chairs, designed by William Sawaya.
Knowing the name I also discovered a blog dedicated to Hospitality Chairs: New Hospitality Chairs [ed. discontinued since]
Thirdly: I knew I had made a photo of this design myself in another setting and found it:
Here is the Maxima Stool. A photo I took in Paris recently when visiting the La Suite Shop.
The reason I originally clipped this account info from twitter account @NakedDogDesign (Jed Davis) [account inactive in the meantime] is the guy’s background image above: A chair design I don’t know.
Update: Mystery solved! (October 15, 2009)
This is the LsD Dining chair by Jed Davis
According to Alicita Rodriquez of 3 Rings NakedDogDesign belongs to Jed Davis, son of a former president of Harley Davidson and former vice president of the De Lorean Car company. Jed has a Coroflot portfolio where he coins this chair the LsD Chair.
Thank You Alicita!
Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on March 5, 2012 at 11:58 PM