Universale Chair
And here a nice shot of the Universale Chair by Joe Colombo in a white version at 2012 IMM Cologne’s Kartell booth.
LCP Lounge Chair by Maarten van Severen – 2012 IMM Cologne (16)
Glad I can share my own photo of Maarten’s LCP Lounge Chair with you. I found it at the Kartell Booth.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Seated in Style
Chairchez L’Homme
We’ve invented two catagories Chairchez La Femme and Chairchez L’Homme.
Basically it is a question: “Search” the Lady or “Search the Man”. It stems from the French “chercher” which means “seek” in English.
In posting in these catagories we are referring to the catogory in one or more of the following ways:
- Who is the (wo)man seated in the chair?
- What chair is the (wo)man seated in?
- Where is the (wo)man I would expect to be seating in this chair?
- Who is the (wo)man behind the design of this chair?
- This chair is inspired by who or what (wo)man?
- And so on and so forth
Gates and Jobs
Both can afford themselves some chairs. Especially Jobs reportedly loved design. Unfortunately these photos are a thing of the past since Jobs died. So here the photos are shared more in remembrance of the two men sitting together.
The first photo I picked up from a Tumblr Blog Awesome People Hanging Out Together and the second from Wiki Media Commons
Chairs Suck! Good Chair Design is Impossible!
Chairs Suck! Good Chair Design is Impossible!
Claims Colin McSwiggen in Jacobin, a NYC based internet magazine.
Collin says:
…Chairs Suck! All of them. No designer has ever made a good chair, because it is impossible. Some are better than others, but all are bad!
His piece is worth reading and gives us something to think about. Chairs can be dangerous for our health.
What makes chairs so awful for the body? That’s a complicated question to answer, because different chairs get different things wrong. Uncomfortable chairs typically put adverse pressure on some part of the body or require excessive muscular work in order to sit. This can cause soreness and encourage the sitter to adopt slouched postures that restrict circulation, impede respiratory and intestinal function, and lead to musculoskeletal injuries.
Comfy chairs are even worse. By encouraging the sitter to remain in a single static position for long durations without moving, they put extended, unrelieved stress on the spine, weaken the muscles that support the body’s frame and prevent injury, and cause the same circulatory problems as their less comfortable counterparts. And that’s just the beginning.
He continues with a long piece that chairs are thrown upon us by our rulers and by the industrial revolution.
Chairchill by Helmut Palla
Chairchill
And another Helmut Palla Chair concoction. The Chairchill. Clearly waiting for the lady to take place and fill the lines with her curves. Hence placed in our Chairchez La Femme series. Also to let you know that after some searching I found Helmut’s FB page back…no I’m not linking to FB anymore….they’ve earned enough already with their Ipo yesterday. Wonder what the their opening will be on Monday….