Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
City Space Mount Sophia – Singapore
A growing demand for outdoor furniture not just in Singapore, but globally. Have a look at these nice patio pieces to be found at the City Space in Mount Sophia.
I believe it is a serviced luxury apartment enclave in Singapore.
Via Designboom
The Lupita
Thanks to a fellow Trend Hunter, Ben Preiss, I found this funny peeled sofa, the Lupita.
This unique seating arrangement is constructed from a single piece of red oak, cushioned with pleather-covered, high-density foam. The possibilities are great for modular combinations: side-by-side and end-to-end offer some interesting options, but I’m sure you could transform your living room into a veritable jungle gym of loopitas, limited only by your imagination (and funds, perhaps).
Inventor Spot said:
The latest concepts in on-floor seating have quite literally taken a turn. The Loope Lupita, designed by twenty-one year old Victor Aleman, reminds me of a cross between some kind of fruit peel remnant and a mini racetrack my brother used to have (a Scalextric, I believe it’s called?).
The Lupita is a design of Victor Aleman. Here is Victor’s portfolio at Coroflot
Architect Zaha Hadid designed this sofa for B&B Italia.
B&B ITALIA PROFILE
B&B Italia has been founded in 1966.
It has its headquarter in Novedrate in the Como province of Italia.
Its offices are in a building designed by Renzo Piano in 1972.
It has turned from a family-run small-scale business into a company with separate divisions for design, manufacturing and sales. The Company has two branches: B&B Italia Home Division and B&B Italia Contract Division.
About Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid is an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design. Her work ranges from urban scale to interiors and furniture.
Best known for:
– Vitra Fire Station
– Land Formation-One
– Innsbruck Bergisel Ski-Jump
– Strasbourg Tram Station
– Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati
– BMW Central Building in Leipzig
– Hotel Puerta America (interior) in Madrid
– Ordrupgaard Museum Extension in Copenhagen, and
– Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg.
Her central concerns involve a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research. Hadid was born in Bagdad in 1950. She studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois, School of Architecture, Chicago; guest professorships at the Hochschule fŸr Bildende KŸnste in Hamburg; the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
See further for an impression of her work this YouTube impression:
Huit Sofa is a design of Emanuel Laffon de Mazieres. Nice names!
Emanuel is a Frenchman who sometimes resides in San Francisco. According to his resume on Coroflot he was looking for a job, but from what I see that search won’t last long!
I wouldn’t be surprised if this sofa becomes a Style Icon.
Also found on Yanko Design Siting on a Figure, Elit Alice’s bilingual (Hungarish and English) Blog Number Eight Sofa and Elit Alice’s Trendhunter portfolio Optical Illusion Furniture – No. 8 Huit Sofa
Sand & Birch are the makers of the Velvet Sofa.
This bewitching velvet ribbon sofa – “Velvet” – is a spiral shaped sofa upholstered in a sensual and luxurious smooth velvet. Its wooden frame is covered with a thin layer of polyurethane.
“Velvet” is the latest work by Sand & Birch Luxury Design.
Designers: Andrea Fino and Samanta Snidaro
About:
Sand & Birch Design Studio was founded in 2003 when Andrea Fino and Samanta Snidaro decided to join their different cultural backgrounds and experiences together for a unique project: to re-interpret the concept of furnishing and to bring other meanings, other senses and other lives to Objects.
The Diamond Sofa is an example of how this project has become reality by turning a sofa into a piece of jewellery without losing its original functions.
Andrea Fino has studied law and at present is working in the field of Communication for Government Institutions and has gained experience in Visual Communication for the realization of social events.
Samanta Snidaro has studied architecture in Italy and Spain and has had various experiences in the fields of Photography and Graphics.Together they began to focus on shapes and design, devoting their efforts mainly to take other natures, hidden or sacrificed for the production demands, out of ordinary objects.
They participated in different national and international contests such as NuoviSegni (Il Sole 24 Ore) with a design of a multifunctional centre for suburbs, the Mitsubishi contest with the design of a concept car and the Nespresso contest with the design of a coffee stick.
In the field of food design they have created products that are still in progress.
Their next project is a sustainable-energy-supplying concept house.