Sway by Markus Krauss is a rocking lounge chair with a padded seat and a steel rack. Special ‘telescope’ mechanism enables it to become a regular ‘sturdy’ steady chair, and the seat’s shape is made to comfortably fit two users.
Category: rocking
Antonio Volpe rocking chaise
Antonio Volpe rocking chaise
Antonio Volpe rocking chaise
Model 267 Italy, c. 1922 lacquered beech,
cane 28.75 w x 52 d x 36 h inches
Literature: Bent Wood and Metal Furniture: 1850-1946, Ostergard, pg. 87
Estimate: $7,000–9,000
(Source: Wright)
Rock & Roll – Kids Vespa Rocking Chair
While I was looking for the Vespa Chair that I know exists, but have not featured yet here, I encountered this cute Vespa Rocking Chair for kids, fiberglass made, with aluminum and steel details and working lights and clacson on Etsy.
The whole rocking chair is handmade. Not by a grand dad for his grand son, but by a Turin, Italy, based lady:
One of the most important days in my life was long time ago, when my passion for the theater was awakened.
I’m a professional scenographer and I was born in Naples (Italy), a city where the life itself is theater: so colourful and varied with so many different characters that you can manage to meet strolling around the lively streets downtown.
There, I started my profession, surrounded by the scent and the creaking of the stage boards, where illusions are painted and built to appear truer than reality.
Each one of my unique creations carries inside this overwhelming experience; each object is a part of the theater that we all live as actors or as spectators.
Wright mistook a J&J Kohn Rocking Lounger for a Thonet Rocking Lounger
Some time ago I mentioned this Rocking Lounger that was auctioned at Wright. They attributed it to Thonet. Rather it is a J&J Kohn Lounger as the following 2 excerpts from a 1904 Catalog of both firms clearly demonstrate:
Many thanks to the Chairblog Reader, a real Thonet aficionado based here in Europe, who kindly has sent me the 2 excerpts.
He owns an original himself, you see:
Slight Rocker by Charlie McArthur
The Slight Rocker is a round rocking, stackable stool by American designer Charlie McArthur designed as part of his graduate thesis project. It was an investigation into breaking down barriers to open interaction in social settings through designed objects and the shared experience of physical motion.
Via designboom.com