Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Auslaufmodel is a piece of seating furniture which gives the appearance of being under construction, only to be seen and used that way this very moment. This appearance is captured by its seemingly runny form. In addition, the impression of lacking firmness and stability made by the material however arouses the watcher`s curiosity to touch it and even sit on it.
Source Alexander Nettesheim
This comfortable club chair was presented in 1930 at the Paris Grand Palais as a contribution by the Deutscher Werkbund. Together with Walter Gropius and Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer organized this premiere of contemporary German furniture production in France. With the S 35 he succeeded in integrating all of the functions of a tubular steel cantilever chair with the construction of a single uninterrupted line. The cantilever effect was thus doubled because the armrests, which flex independently from the seat, balance the swinging of the seat and backrest frame that projects towards the back. A matching footstool is available.
Frames chrome-plated tubular steel. Seat, backrest and footstool stretched with black full-grain butt leather or brown buffalo hide. Armrests in stained beech or oiled walnut.
Via Thonet
Jasper designed the lowpad for Cappellini. The fact that Cappellini was able to find a car chair making company who could make the leather seating pads perfect, greatly contributed to the success of this chair.
Jasper had a solo exhibition in Grand Hornu, Belgium, named Thingness, in June 2015 where I took this photo.
I found this classic giant chair in a shop-window of Utopic_US in Madrid.
