Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Theo van Doesburg is probably, like the Guardian said last year at the occasion of a Van Doesburg Overview in London’s Tate, ” The Forgotten artist of the avant garde“. He was born as Christian Emil Marie Küpper in 1883. Together with Piet Mondriaan (or Mondrian) who he met in 1915, he was one of … Continue reading “Armchair by Theo van Doesburg’s Friend Thijs Rinsema”
American Airlines Seats from our most viewed post Chair Blog’s 4th Anniversary On April 30th, 2007 I started this blog wit 3 posts. Only last year I remembered to celebrate 3 years of blogging. I’ll copy and paste some stats here from the WP Stats Plugin. These stats are far from complete, because the plugin … Continue reading “Chair Blog’s 4th Anniversary”
Found this photo on the web. It’s of a cool tubular chair by J.J.P. Oud (Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud 1890-1963), a Dutch architect, member of the Stijl Group and contemporary of Gerrit Rietveld. Oud was also involved in the design of the Weissenhof Siedlung in Germany which got Bauhaus a lot of Fame. Via New … Continue reading “Cool Chair by J.J.P. Oud”
Jeroen Wesselink is a Dutch designer based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Apparently he was inspired by Rietveld‘s Zig Zag chair when designing this radiator chair. Again a yellow chair. Let’s call this Sunday Yellow Sunday:-)
So sorry. Again pressed the publish button too early erroneously… Like Popular in January 2011, I like to brag about Chair Blog’s successes in February 2011. Despite two major outages on February 26 and February 28, 2011, we succeeded to attract over 100,000 page views with over 43,000 visitors in February, 2011. Most attractive were … Continue reading “Popular on Chair Blog in February 2011”