Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Deconstructing Chairs by sanding them down new? No, Seattle based Drew Daly did it already in 2004/2005.
I wasn’t able to pin a website to Drew other that that he had expositions at Seattle based Greg Kucera Gallery and a nice interview with Seattle based Art Blogger Joey Veltkamp (by his surname of Dutch ancestry).
We’ve shown you Dissolving Objects by Astrid Bucio and the Recession Chair by Tjep, believing it was new. Not so! Barcelona born artist Jaime Pitarch applied the idea already in 2006 with his Subject, Object, Abject.
Via Spencer Brownstone Gallery.
As Ouch Chair I’ve published the color version…
Shinobu Koizumi’s Eternal Stone Chair is made of granite and epoxy resin with sixteen glow-in-the-dark timepieces embedded into its body.
Via hungeree.com
Burning chairs by Hongtao Zhou are very similar in appearance to the designer’s Ice chairs, but only till you light them up. These chairs are made of wax and are basically sets of numerous candles pressed together. Candlelit dinner just took on a whole new meaning…