Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Makoto Azuma collaborated with Herman Miller to create this custom Aeron chair covered in green AstroTurf, a type of artificial grass. The chair’s functional parts, like the wheels and knobs are left uncovered for easy operation. The chair will be on display at the Tokyo Herman Miller store this summer.
Young German designer Sylvia Knueppel has merged the Frankfurter Stuhl (a Stuhl is German for Chair) and the Swedish Grace Chair into the Frankfurter Melange Chair.
Spun is a fun chair by Thomas Heatherwick manufactured by Magis using rotational plastic moulding and first presented in Milan during the design week last year. Not being immediately recognized as a chair, it even looks like it could be a sculptural vessel, but when lent on the side, Spun allows for a comfortable sitting experience all the while letting the user rock or even spin around in circles. Not only is it fun, but seems to be a good work out too!
There is that Swiss designer who coined his chair “Frankenstein Chair“, but otherwise, like me, you might ask: “What in heaven’s name has Frankenstein to do with a chair?”
That was until I found the Blog Frankensteinia which explains it quite simple: During long days of filming, the movie stars who are in heavy outfits, have to have a space to rest without cluttering their outfit or being bothered by it. Such chair kept Boris Karloff while resting backstage on the set of the Son of Frankenstein in 1939.
An oldie, I know, but since I’m living in a country with one of the highest bicycle densities of the world I have to share this Scarabike, a bicycle saddle bench that, according to Design Boom, was presented at Tokyo Designers Week 2007 by the bicycle prodution company Scarabike. There is also a stool.
