Category: unusual

Chair 5 by Pawel Grunert

Chair 5 by PAWEL GRUNERT Side

Chair 5 by Pawel Grunert Front

Chair 5 by Pawel Grunert

Chair 5 by Pawel Grunert looks like a sort of bentwood chair avant la lettre, or – in Plain English – a tongue in cheek prehistorical bentwood chair..

About Pawel Grunert:

Born in 1965 in Warsaw, he studied at the Department of Interior Design of the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw. In 1990 he graduated with a honorable mention from Studio of Furniture for work titled M Y C H A I R. He design and made hundreds of furniture objects, sculptures and three-dimensional arrangement. What is worse – he still designs…

His works are placed in private collections and in musea in Poland and abroad. His works are published in books, magazines and on websites.
He works in the countryside near Warsaw. He is more a hobbyist than a designer. It could be said that he cultivates and loves furniture. All signs on sky and land indicate that it is unpunishable in polish legislation furnish-fil. Surely, he will reincarnate in the form of a chair…

Chair Ssstoell by Studio Voortman & Girod

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One chair made out of three. Or a stutter chair maybe. Stoel is Dutch for Chair. It seems Voortman and Girod have terminated their partnership.

Virtual Banana Chair

Virtual Banana Chair
Have to share this Virtual Banana Chair with you.

Via You The Biscuit.

Tree Grown as a Chair by Peter Cook

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Tree Grown Chair by Peter Cook
Photos of this chair grown as a tree have been around the net for some time now. Only recently I could establish who are behind it: Pooktre Tree Shapers by Peter Cook (nicknamed Pook) and Beckey Northey from Australia. It was planted in 1998.

Via The Art of Tree Shaping | Golberz.Com and Living Chair.

Priceless Chair


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Priceless Chair

This strong photo came along on FaceBook and I placed it on Chair Blog’s FB Wall with the caption Priceless Chair. When I opened FB this morning it appeared the photo had attracted over 40 likes itself. That got me curious about its provenance. Unfortunately it appears there is no larger format available at the moment. The sign next to the person is barely readable apart from the Text Them Home

Text Them Home

When I searched on Text Them Home I hit the source. It turned out the Los Angeles based charity The Weingart Center partnered with ad agency David & Goliath to promote the “Text Them Home” fund raising campaign that integrated homeless volunteers and art.

Street Art Project for the homeless

A chalk artist used the sidewalk as his canvas and drew simple, yet realistic scenes around homeless individuals lying or sitting on the street. A sign asked for a $10 donation to the Weingart Center accompanied by the message: “Text Them Home, text HOMELESS to 50555 and help the 50,000 Homeless in LA find a new place to call home.” MSG/ DATA rates may apply. Full terms at mGive.com/T and read the privacy policy. All proceeds will benefit the Weingart Center’s many homeless assistance programs.

I’m just wondering why they didn’t use social media more and better to spread the word.

UPDATE: To make it more convenient for all of us, here’s a little more insight on the project left in the comments section below by Jordy who works for the Weingart Center (the one that launched the Text Them Home campaign). More information on the campaign can be found on their website here, as well as on their YouTube channel here (including the video in which the photo above was taken). The first photo in this post is also a new addition.