This might not look like a chair, but it is! And a sustainable one at that: Barnacle by Ania Wagner is made using harvested ash and reclaimed industrial felt.
Via design-milk.com
Fortune Cookie Stool by Po Shun Leong? – 2011 IMM Cologne (29)
Fortune Cookie Stool
In Europe and especially in The Netherlands (internet browser) Cookies are subject to opt in nowadays…oops have to adjust Our Rules of Engagement (done in the meantime…I even haven’t a clue what cookies are…)
Anyway, luckily Po Shun Leong created the Fortune Cookie Stool to alleviate this burden on us poor bloggers and I found this photo I took of the stool at 2011 IMM Cologne back to share it with you.
About Po Shun Leong
He was born in the UK in 1941, studied at the Royal College of Art, School of Sculpture, London in 1958, with Prof John Skeaping, but transferred to and received his Diploma Cum Laud at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, UK. His studio is in Winnetka, California, USA.
Update
As per the comments this is not Po Shun Leong’s stool, but Shin Azumi’s AP stool for La Palma….
Below a photo of Po Shun Leong’s real Fortune Cookie Chair:
Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on June 24, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Tension Bentwood Chair by Dohoon Kim – 2011 IMM Cologne (28…actually 25A)
Tension Bentwood Chair by Dohoon Kim
I knew I had made a reasonable photo of this nice chair at 2011 IMM Cologne….Only problem was: Before I could share it with you I’d misplaced it. Problem solved. Here it is.
25A Because co author Julia posted already about it as 2011 IMM Cologne (25)
Gem Chair by Brian Dreesman
Gem Chair by Brian Dreesman
What better design to open a new week on Chair Blog with than this Gem of a Chair by Brian Dreesman? A Gem in many respects, the eye catcher being that it is a new approach to chair design not seen before in the over 3,000 chairs we have featured by now.
I have a feeling Brian has a Dutch or German ancestry. Not only by his name, but also because I see some early 20ieth century design parallels in this chair. Strait lines, no curves was typically what Berlage prior to De Stijl and Rietveld as member of De Stijl propagated.
In addition this seems a comfy chair and comfy was not typically something those famous early 20ieth century chairs stood out by.
Brian is a Studio Artist, recently graduated from Iowa State University. He found inspiration for this chair by the way gem stones are set in jewelry.
This is what I would call De Stijl 21st Century!
Teneride Chair by Mario Bellini
As auctioned by Wright
Teneride Chair by Mario Bellini
I had taken some photo’s from this chair at the Milan Triennale Design Museum last September, not knowing exactly what to think of this extraordinary chair, until Wright had it on auction on June 7, 2012:
185
Mario Bellini
Teneride chair
Cassina
Italy, 1970
molded polyurethane, lacquered wood, lacquered fiberglass
26.25 w x 25.5 d x 35.5 h inchesMade from a single piece of molded polyurethane, this experimental chair was technically difficult to create and was never put into production.
Estimate: $7,000–9,000
Result: $35,000
And now I’m more confused: Was the one I photographed a prototype? This prototype, or are there more prototypes?