Category: rocking

Alright by Joseph Riehl


Alright by Joseph Riehl

I’m Feeling “Alright”

Born of Japanese and Danish influences, Joseph Riehl’s Alright rocking chair looks like a comfortable addition to any room, fitting right in with that Ikea sofa you just can’t get rid of. While the low rise design may suit gamers more than most, the chair could rock anyone to sleep with the rubber mount that stretches and compresses in any direction. It’s a good thing the bent arcs give the joints extra strength, because I could see myself spending a lot of time in something like this.

Designer: Joseph Riehl

Via Yanko Design

HP1 Stool by Peter Stewart at Workshopped

HP1 Stool by Peter Stewart at Workshopped

Peter Stewart – HP1 STOOL

Birch ply, Nylon Cord
H 660 W 560 L 550

The HP1 is a workplace perch, accommodating all the comings and goings at a workplace desk or bench.

The design arose out of a preoccupation with the potential of curved woven surfaces for seating through explorations of the straight ruled curve of the hyperbolic parabola. The sitting surface is higher than a normal desk chair, so that the hips are held above the levels of the knees, promoting an upright sitting posture.

Via WORKSHOPPED: EXHIBITING AUSTRALIAN DESIGN EXCELLENCE

Ferdinand Rocker at Workshopped


ANGUS McDONALD + JOHN MADDEN – FERDINAND ROCKER

MOO DESIGN
Angus McDonald and John Madden

Moo Design is a creative collaboration between artist Angus McDonald and furniture maker John Madden. It is a partnership which aspires to produce beautifully finished, high quality furniture and objects of visual and functional integrity.

McDonald and Madden conceived Moo furniture originally as an aesthetically gestural homage to the bull, whose low centre of gravity and overall proportions McDonald finds compelling as an artist. The artist and the furniture maker worked together to replicate the form and design of the bull in their first piece, the ‘Moo Arm-Chair’. The Moo range has now expanded to include more bull inspired pieces of furniture and other objects, including the “Ferdinand” rocker which is part of WORKSHOPPED 08.

Moo Design are creating contemporary furniture and objects grounded in classical elements of design and traditional methods of handmade construction. The objective with every new piece is that it be supremely functional and sculpturally elegant with a strong emphasis on finish and longevity, and the use of sturdy and environmentally sustainable natural materials.

WORKSHOPPED: EXHIBITING AUSTRALIAN DESIGN EXCELLENCE

OdeChair: Contemporary organic chairs from Jolyon Yates

Okay, these can be pricey, but if you find Wendell Castle a bit overwrought, check out Jolyon Yates’ furniture designs, hand made in Northumberland. We asked Jolyon for a bit more info about the pieces, and then asked him if we could paste his comments right here.

I have been working in the car and the boat industries for many years as well as in University, teaching. The ODE chairs are kind of a reaction to loveless mass production–the rather lofty ideal emanating from the suspicion that when we mass-copy an object, the love that goes into designing such a piece is largely lost.

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Rocking Chair by Ron Arad

RON ARAD (b. 1951) ROCKING CHAIR

Price Realized £1,375 ($2,479)

Estimate £1,000 – £1,500 ($1,803 – $2,705)

Sale 5340
interiors – 20th century edition
16 September 2008
London, South Kensington

Lot Description

RON ARAD (b. 1951)
ROCKING CHAIR
designed 1981, for One-Off, chromed steel, plastic-coated springs
76cm. wide

Via Christie’s