Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka launched a crumpled aluminium chair for Italian brand Moroso in Milan last year.
The Memory Chair is covered in a layer containing recycled aluminium, which retains its form.
via Dezeen.
Category: unusual
Seat Down, Please Pouf by Maria Kymosova at 2011 IMM Cologne (7)
Russian St Petersburg’s ArtFuture design school had a small, but interesting booth at IMM Cologne 2011. Here the barbed wire “Seat Down, Please” Pouf by Maria Kymosova…I believe it should read “Please Be Seated Pouf”. I had a laugh as many chairs at the exhibition had a sign “Please do not sit!” or “Please do not touch” which I find really really strange as a chair is an object to use, or is it?
Butter Stools by Tjep
Since we published the Cake Stool (Let Them Sit Cake) recently, we cannot leave the Butter Stools by Tjep without attention.
the moulds themselves melt because of the temperature during solidification. A technical story, but the result is that every piece gets a unique soft buttery structure. Haven’t you ever fantasized melting away in your furniture?
Let them Sit Cake by Dejana Kabiljo
Via Mat and Me I noticed (again) there was an exhibition of Vienna Design recently in the Vienna Museum where Vienna based Dejana Kabiljo exhibited her Let Them Sit Cake stool and sofa during Vienna Design Week. For the sofa photo I refer to Mat and Me. The photo here is from Juicy Pool
‘Ben Hur’ Chair by Jean-Paul Gaultier
‘Ben Hur’ Chair by Jean-Paul Gaultier
Ben Hur chair, the chariot of chairs, has an aluminium structure and a trendy velvet upholstering that comes in four colors: red, blue, green and yellow. It was designed by fashion guru Jean-Paul Gaultier for Roche Bobois to mark the company’s 50th anniversary. A ride to Gaultier’s boutique, anyone?