Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Rotterdam based designer Joost Goudriaan developed this concept for the ‘foolproof & public space’ event in Rotterdam to ask a little bit more attention for public space furniture that usually you take for granted.
Via designboom.
Gabriele Basilico was born in 1949 in Milan and deceased on Janyary 13, 2013. He trained as an architect and graduated from Milan Polytechnic in 1973.
His Chair Contact Series fetched £91,250 at Christie’s in an October 14, 2010 sale.
After spending the summer studying Scandinavian Furniture Design in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki, this chair takes cues from Poul Kjaerholm and Hans J. Wegner. The skeleton is made of steel tube and the seating surface woven with flag halyard.
Materials: Steel, Flag Halyard
David Hsu is a student of life: inspired and influenced by environments and the people within. Born in Taiwan, raised in New Zealand, he received a Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York. While dabbling on design as a hobby, he accumulated years of experience specializing in information technology for individuals and small businesses in the fields of design and photography. Longing to make a more meaningful impact on the world, he returned to school and received a master’s degree in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute.
Based in Waseca, Minnesota, David is currently working in New York. He is open to collaborating on projects that seeks to surprise and delight the human experience in product or furniture design or even one-off custom furniture pieces.
One of our readers asked me via e-mail:
I am hoping you can help me identify a chair that I have seen in Bellevue, Washington at the Microsoft building downtown. They are white metal dining chairs and have a design similar to the Vegetal Chair. I have a picture of the chair and the imprint on the bottom. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Yess there is a vague similarity with the Vegetal Chair, but only vague. I was also thinking Konstantin Grcic, but also vague only.
After some research I was able to come up with the answer.
Italian designers Robby Cabtarutti and his wife Francesca Petricich designed this chair for Gruppo Sintesi But I also found Fast Spa having the chair in its collection. I don’t know whether the 2 are connected.
Aluminum composite, stainless steel, synthetic textile
Designed 2009, manufactured beginning 2012
An architect working in Manhattan, NY, Alexander Gendell knows how to work with confined spaces. No matter how luxurious the end product, interiors tend to be tight. “This has always made me realize how ineffectively most spaces are actually used, and how difficult finding appropriately sized furnishings can be.”
Via Brooklyn Museum and Folditure.