Savage Chair by Jay Sae Jung Oh

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Savage Chair

About the Savage Chair by Jay Sae Jung Oh

Jay Sae Jung Oh ‘s site is another Indexhibit site.

Manufactured objects conspicuously transform into unexpected new forms, making a strong statement about our current cultural condition of abundance. Sharp attention is focused on reconsideration of the ordinary. In this project, I started to collect discarded plastic objects, assembled them together, and wrapped them with a natural material. The transformation occurs in the amalgamated form and the concealment of this form. Innovation, invention, and beauty can emerge from anywhere, even the most familiar, ordinary and everyday.

About Jay Sae Jung Oh

Jay Sae Jung Oh was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. Educated in the arts of sculpture, she pursued her bachelors and masters degree at Kookmin University. While completing her studies, she worked as a teaching assistant and a professional artist which enabled her to be chosen by Societe Genrale Corporate Investment Bank as one of Korea’s best rising artists. While practicing in the fine arts field, she noticed the importance of design and how it communicates to people in a much more familiar manner. From then on she was challenged and compelled to join the 3d Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI, which provided her with a culminating experience which in essence provided her with the flexibility to intertwine both art and design. At the completion of her second Master’s degree, she acquired awards from Design Quest, Cranbrook Art Museum, and nominated as top in the 3d Department for Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Emerging Artist Award.

Ms. Oh is currently working for NYC based, italian designer, Gaetano Pesce, with whom she has gained experience in creating and influencing Mr. Pesce’s products and installations. Her prior work has been received publicly at numerous exhibitions including the Daimler Chrysler Headquarters, Lotte Hotel, Hyundai Department Store, as well as earning a permanent space at the Cranbrook Art Museum collection and Kookmin University

Kudos

Inspiring Interior Design Galleries
I noticed UK based design blog Design 55 Online giving us kudos by mentioning Chair Blog in their Showcase of Inspiring Interior Design Galleries which disappeared since.

Chair Blog: Located in Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands, Guido J. van den Elshout (GJE) operates a very small but very luxurious 3 suite hotel. He started his Chair Blog in April of 2007 because, “once, I wanted to buy a couple of chairs for my little hotel (it must have been 2000 or 2001) and found out there was hardly any organized info about chairs.” After plunging into his research, he became captivated. GJE admits that he was drawn into the chair blogging world (which I think he is the only citizen of) by the sheer brilliance that it takes to create a truly comfortable chair. His personal inspiration came from the story of Michael Thonet (1796-1871) and his bent wood chairs. “He truly democratized the chair for the masses. In addition he was one of the first who recognized that designing chairs is an art in itself.”

Note: There are many more Chair o Holics, see for instance our own list of Top Inspiring Chair Design Blogs and Sites or our category chair inspiration.

Update

I received a request to remove links which I did in October 2014

Yellow Guerilla Street Furniture by Oliver Schau

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Yellow Guerilla Street Furniture

Gives the public space back to the public: Benches made of yellow plastic drainage piping wrapped around available objects.

Oliver Schau, a design student of the Hamburg Design School, states: “If you let them sit, they will come”

Via Architizer.

Terrace Chair by Kaare Bækgaard

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Outdoor furniture usually follow a limited number of existing conventions. The Terrace Chair is an attempt to go outside the rules or define a new convention: While being instantly recognizable, it looks somewhat different from what you would expect to find at your home & garden center.

The bulk of the chair is rotation moulded in polyethylene with a base of stainless steel. It is quite low-tech and requires little maintenance – just leave it out all year and give it a wash now and then. But when it is time to party, connect a low voltage cable to the bottom of the base and the chair will glow invitingly in the dark and provide ambience to the scene.

The body of the chair is only slightly elastic but it has a soft embracing feel due to the rounded, organic shape. The chair is easily disassembled into clearly marked elements according to the cradle-to-cradle principle.

The Terrace Chair is looking for a manufacturer.

Via Idesign.li, Kaare’s Design Studio.

Space to Take Place: Memorial Bench by Claudia Linders

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Inside Space to take place. Photo by Erik Anna

Space to Take Place

Space to Take Place is a community Bench project in Amsterdam where a 100m bench has been placed in the IJburg quarter which has been build on reclaimed land. It invites you to collaborate by publishing photos of videos of the project and share it and brings us amazing photography (see their Flickr Group).

It is a project with different angles: The Bench is owned by various contacts of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign affairs which donated parts of the Bench to these contacts from all over the World… something else than sending them an agenda with nice photos of The Netherlands.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned Droog to design an exclusive gift for its important foreign contacts. Each year the Ministry gives away 50,000 copies of Holland Agenda, a lavishly illustrated desk diary, but the need was felt for a more exclusive present suitable for the 1,000 most valued contacts of Dutch ambassadors and consuls-general across the world.

Dutch designers were asked to come up with a creative and innovative idea. A competition was thrown open to designers with whom Droog worked; it was also placed on the Droog website and publicised through the various design courses in the Netherlands.

The directors of Droog, Gijs Bakker and Renny Ramakers, selected ten finalists [pdf] from sixty entries, and their projects were then submitted to the jury. After lengthy deliberation the jury, consisting of Jan Hoekema, Nikki Gonnissen, Ed Annink and Guus Beumer, and chaired by Flip de Heer (former Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), unanimously selected the design by Claudia Linders: Space To Take Place.