Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Jim’ll Fix It was a popular television series hosted by Sir Jimmy Savile in the UK for decades. One of the most famous episodes was one where he took a couple of scouts to Blackpool to have lunch in a roller coaster. Hilarious! 25 Years later Jim repeated it with the same guys, now 25 years older.
The chair from which it was presented came up for a charity auction at the end of this month.
Via World TV PC.
Early prototype sculpted aluminum chair by architect and designer Robert Whitton circa 1989. Features a perforated aluminum seat with a rolling bar that moves for ease of entry into the chair. The swooping curved arms provide an incredible contrast to the angularity of the legs.
Via red modern furniture.
But directed to Robert Whitton by reader Thomas Goi for which we thank him!
I’ve had this chair on my back-burner for a long time. Sadly however Behz Creations seems having disappeared from the web.
And then, then I find Mid Mod Design, a Dutch collector and seller of mid 20ieth century modern furniture, who had this very interesting chair for sale.
The chair was designed by Amsterdam based Dutch artist John Striegel in 1983. Originally he planned to make 100 of them, but he found out that was too time consuming. Eventually he made 18 only. Most of them went to family, some were sold to the UK. As a consequence they seldom will be available for sale.
The chair is a sculpture and a homage to the Steltman chair by Gerrit Thomas Rieveld. It was was made of heavy massive beech wood and lacquered in white. Signed with tag on the bottom: Striegel & Barkey (Designer/manufacturer), 014 -100 (production number), 16-06-83 (date).
Street Seats is a furniture project developed by Bade Stageberg Cox for the Pier 94 Coffee Bar at The Armory Show. The 50 chairs, found abandoned on the streets of New York, were repaired and given a new life with a coat of taxi cab yellow paint. Like the city’s residents, the chairs are an eclectic mix, migrating throughout the fair during its five-day run. The bottom of each chair is stamped and documented with the date and location it was recovered.
Chairs are available for purchase. Contact Bade Stageberg Cox.
If only I had known when I coined September 2011 our Yellow Chair month.
The number 01 is the Jimi Chair.