Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
I’ve featured this chair earlier, but below writeup by the German museum sheds some more light on the provenance of this chair. JJ Pieter Oud, armchair 03, 1933 The new collection – Museum of Applied Arts, Munich Dutch architect and designer Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud was co-founder of the influential De Stijl group and Rotterdam’s … Continue reading “Armchair no 03 by J.J.P. Oud”
Like Alessandro Mendini who inspires with re interpretations of certain designs, Peter van Zoetendaal re interprets an Ikea Chair, the Ivar Chair, by giving it the red and blue chair (by Gerit Thomas Rietveld) color scheme and adding 2 knobs, which 2 knobs would be a deadly sin for a real “De Stijl” member… ~~~~~ … Continue reading “Crazy Chair by Peter van Zoetendaal”
Armchairs by Adrian Pearsall #8 of the 999 Armchairs Book is a difficult one. The 2 chairs displayed in the book I cannot find easily on the internet. However I found 2 other armchairs, the above 2 blue ones via Chairish and the red one via 1stdibs. Both Chairish and 1stdibs have a considerable number … Continue reading “Armchairs by Adrian Pearsall”
Dutch designerRob Parry was a pupil of Gerrit Rietveld and soon started his own design studio with Emile Truien. With Emile he designed a chair for Dutch State Mines, a state owned coal mining company. These two are for sale at Flatland Design via VNTG (Vintage) ~~~~~ Chairs! gje
All of a sudden this chair came along on Helmut Palla‘s FaceBook timeline where he put it somewhere in 2013. Part Escher (its name is MCesChair, after M.C. Escher), but also part Rietveld this time and maybe Helmut didn’t think of Rietveld’s Steltman Chair. And a bit of Steffen Kehrle as well.