Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
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?
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?
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, 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?
While featuring the Molecular Chair by Antonio Pio Saracino, I had to think of the Nano Chair Dutch designer Lucas Maassen designed some time ago.
This chair is not visible with your naked eye, only with a SEM microscope. The Chair is build with a Focused Ion Beam and is 5 micron, and made from platinum.