Best of Chair Blog Half December 2012 – Half January 2013

1) 359 views: Exercise Chair by Yuan Yuan:

Exercise Chair by Yuan Yuan

2) 347 views: R18 Carbon Chair by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram:

R18 ULTRA CHAIR

3) 312 views: Thomas Schnur – White Benchchair:

bench-chair-quart

4) 310 views: FildeFer by Alessandra Baldereschi:

FildeFer by Alessandra Baldereschi

295 views:Sable Horn Chairs by Arthur Court:

Sable Horn Chairs by Arthur Court

Best of Chair Blog Half December 2012 – Half January 2013

Based on our Feedburner stats.

Noteworthy: I’ve left out 2 from these top 5: Best of Chair Blog Half November – Half December 2012, also with 359 views and Top Posts December 2012 with 306 views. The reason is I want to concentrate on new posts in the period rather that a look back to a prior period.

Hurray! Google Analytics shows some recovery when compared with the period Half November – Half December 2012:

Visits: 20,131 vs 17,418 (+15.58%)
Pageviews: 45,416 vs 43,012 (+3.86%)

I wrote a post about my suspicion that Cloudflare has to do with the decrease on another blog that I started to concentrate all my under the hood activities: Does Cloudflare Take Away Your Traffic?. Cloudflare denies it, but I’m not sure they are right…Especially after I had turned off Cloudflare on January 1, 2013 traffic from Google Image searches started to come back.

And some Miscellaneous stats:

Compared with Best of Chair Blog Half November – Half December 2012

Post Alia

Philosophically off course the question remains whether newcomers on the basis of a Google image search who leave the site again after a quick click are more important than our slowly but gradually growing basis of approximately now 3,000 fans who follow us regularly….My answer is: I care for both groups, because I want to share my chair hobby with as many people as possible.

Stay tuned!

Postman on a chair by Vincent van Gogh

Postman on a chair by Vi

Postman Joseph Roulin on a Chair

Found it on Wikipedia along with its entry on Vincent van Gogh.

It belongs to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Quote by Vincent van Gogh

Quote by Vincent van Gogh

Quote by Vincent van Gogh

Two paintings of Vincent van Gogh with chairs have been on our top hit list for a long time: the Van Gogh Chair and his Gaugin Style Chair.

Now I’ve found out there are more through this quote:

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process

Via Joost Geurtsen.

Stay tuned!

Chairs and Body Painting

Chairs and Body Painting RedPhotography: Vincent Basler

Body Art and Chairs 1Photo Vincent Klijn

Chairs and Body Painting

What better way to start a day than with these two very nice ladies whose bodies are painted fully matching the covers of the chairs they are seated on?

Two other Dutch ladies, Iepke Seebregts and Saskia Hoek have created Gekleurd Naakt (i.e. Colored or Painted Nudes) which tells a story about their body painting travels all over the world resulting in a very nice series of culturally connected body painting photography.

You can find a selection of the body art on Pinterest

They have made a Body Painting Book as well. The second photo is the cover of the book. That makes the post apt for our chairvertizing category.

I also have to think about Natura Morta by Alexa Meade

Nano Rietveld Red and Blue, Zig Zag and Steltman Chairs

Nano Rietveld Red and Blue

rietveld zig zag and Stelman on scale 1/144

Nano Rietveld Red and Blue, Zig Zag and Steltman Chairs

NanoTray is a site where Maarten (or Max) Meerman, a Dutch rocket scientist, shares his hobby of miniaturizing stuff. It is not exactly nano sized, but close: The scale is 1:144.
For the celebration of the Rietveld Year back in 2010 Max made this Rietveld Red and Blue miniature , but also a Zig Zag and a Steltman Chair. All are on loan to the Utrecht Centraal Museum which has probably the largest Rietveld collection.

Funny part of the story is: I found him via Pinterest and he found me via Twitter…full circle round.