Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Found it on VNTG
Dino Gavina founded Studio Simon in 1968, after the sale of his previous activity, Gavina SpA, to Knoll International (the USA branche). Knoll states it bought the leftovers of Gavina SPA after its bankruptcy. I believe S. Gavina stands for Studio Simon.
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Designed in 1960 for Gavina.
I took this photo September 24, 2011 in the Milan Triennale Design Museum
The three points of support for the body – seat,back,headrest – are separate, built with different degrees of padding and are both struturally separate (designed to be pressed seperately). This object succeeds in being a synthesis of traditional forms and has another special feature once seated, all parts of the body, wherever they rest, are comfortably supported
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I took this photo September 24, 2011 in the Milan Triennale Design Museum
A seating-sculpture that has become one of the company’s icons, the S-Chair is the object that made its inventor Tom Dixon famous. The chair is characterized by the unmistakable lithe sihouette that is developped upward and ideally inscribed in a cylinder: form that makes it possible to distribute weight across an extremely reduced circular base and still maintain perfect stability, the result of which is an object which is both elegant and dynamic
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Can be found at Embru
Werner Max Moser was a Swiss architect, he was born in Karlsruhe and studied architecture with his father Karl Moser at the ETH Zurich from 1916. After working in Stuttgart and with Frank Lloyd Wright in the USA, he returned to Switzerland in 1926. In 1931 he founded Wohnbedarf AG together with Sigfried Giedion and Rudolf Graber, in 1937 he was a co-founder of the Haefeli Moser Steiger architectural firm and from 1958 he taught at the ETH Zurich.
Moser designed a whole range of furniture for Embru, some of which became very popular with customers and were subsequently produced in series. His designs are often characterized by a hidden sophistication, such as the adjustment of the seating position in the Moser armchair. These special features enabled the piece of furniture to be patented.
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Private commission from the Goldsmiths’ Company as part of a showcase installation ‘Made For The Table’.
Show here in cast phosphor bronze, mirror polished with an oak bark bridle leather seat.
Available in a variety of materials and finishes.
Four legs pour molten-like to the ground; cast in bronze or aluminium, and formed from two flowing lines that cross where seat meets leg.
The metal at the back twists to support your form, against it’s form.
Reenacted in bronze – solid mirror polished and weighty – or aluminum – the chair is material play and lessons in finishes.
Via his company Object
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