Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Union Bench by Jangir Maddadi for I Do Design.
I Do Design will debut the Union Bench, a new design for indoor and outdoor public seating, at the upcoming SaloneSatellite event in April. The bench aims to provide stylish and ample seating space for all who need to rest their feet, whether they wish to interact or keep to themselves.
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Scott Klinker on Design:
Beyond Fashion: Reviving Experimental Design, by Scott Klinker
What’s experimental in a Flat World? A fragrance by Zaha Hadid. Jewelry for Tiffany’s by Frank Gehry. Self-help books for hipsters by Karim Rashid. Signature designers had arrived in the luxury market long ago and by now it’s ordinary. Radical or poetic form, once considered experimental, is the not-so-secret weapon of modern brand building. Where design once served industry, now industry often serves design. Here Design meets Art meets Fashion meets the Devil-wears-Prada Catch-22 of a culture industry starving for new icons and rocket-fueled by a viral Web. If the world is flat as Tom Friedman claimed, then so is design—stripped of the hierarchies that used to distinguish high and low, design and art, theoretical and applied. Has this newfound freedom produced wild experimental design thinking? Not enough. Instead, design’s intellectual edge has been mostly employed by the vanities of a fashion system. Someday we may recall this period as design’s fashion phase. Is it finally time to revive experimental design thinking from this fashion hangover? Read on at Core77
Sitting in the tub differently
It looks like it has some nefarious medical purpose, but Reddish Studio’s ready-made bath chair is just a metal tub that lost a lot of weight (50%) and now has a new perspective on life (by 90 degrees). Founded in 2002 by ID ers Naama Steinbock and Idan Friedman, Reddish Studio spends most of the time helping objects feel better about themselves.
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I simply like transforming furniture and I guess we are going to witness a lot of such designs in the future. It saves space and is a sheer delight to watch them turn into all kinda cool stuff back and forth. But, it would be really interesting to have a kitchen stove that could also double up as a chair for the sheer disparity of functions between the two. It could be a real boon in the winter freeze when you would potentially have the luxury of having a pre-warmed seat though I’d be wary of waking upto find my seat on fire after dozing off during a late-night movie/cook-off. via Trend Hunter
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New Steelwood Chair from Magis is everything it says it is: a harmonious marriage between steel and wood. Unlike its plastic siblings, it is aimed to become more delicate through time, acquiring a patina over uses and years. The steel forming process required deep technological research due to the unique and intricate form. It led to the final process which requires almost ten successive stamping stages in order to get the right curvature.