Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Lot 30 of the Phillips Nordic Design auction scheduled for September 24 in London is this sofa from the Royal Suite of the Radiohuset in Copenhagen, Denmark. Estimate £150,000 – 250,000.
SOLD FOR £194,500
For a little bit more you can combine the sofa with two armchairs and a hocker: Lot 31.
The Hilda Stories: The Woman on the Marshmallow Sofa from Herman Miller on Vimeo.
Hilda Longinotti has worked with George Nelsons for 21 years. Listen why she loves the Marshmellow Sofa.
An excellent story for our Chairchez La Femme series and found on the Herman Miller blog.
I’d never heard of Tomazo Buzzi, but when I noticed this Burr-veneered walnut sofa was sold for Eur 134,500, I had to give it some attention.
Via Phillips
Born and raised in London 1985, Charlotte Kingsnorth is an industrial designer with an artist’s vision, melding together the practical and the sculptural. She uses her designs to narrate the world as she sees it, conjuring up thought provoking ideas which push accepted values and boundaries. Her work demonstrates her preoccupation in materiality and biomorphic forms.
Charlotte trained at Buckinghamshire University in the class of 2006 Contemporary Furniture and Product Design. In 2012 she graduated from the Royal College of Art, where she studied Design Products under Tord Boontje. Since graduating her work has been widely acclaimed, published and exhibited internationally.
Charlotte Kingsnorth’s Studio is based in Maida Vale, London
A clever way of fixing the cushions to the sofa and at the same time offering means to slip something behind the straps so that it stays on the sofa.