Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
The reason to feature this chair is threefold:
More Friedeberg to follow;-)
When I posted Wooden Bench in front of The Nordic Light Hotel in 2008 I wasn’t aware that in fact it was a Faux Wooden Sofa, until I read this blogpost of D E C E P T O L O G Y:….It was a sofa designed by Front Design for Moroso. However it was not made of wood at all. Its upholstery was a faux wooden print. Cleverly decepted!
The same deception as with the faux marble chair by Maurizio Galante.
As the 3 ladies of Design Front, Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken (until 2015) and Anna Lindgren based in Stockholm, are so kind as to have their group photo available at their website. I feature “Das Dreimäderlhaus” with pleasure – also in our category Chairchez La Femme in the sense of “Look which ladies design the chair”;-)
Mexican artist Pedro Reyes designed the Mano Silla and exhibits it at Labor.
He must have been inspired by the other hand chairs designed by the other Pedro, Pedro Friedeberg.
As the fingers are movable you can give your visitors the finger with this chair;-)
Via (+Photo): Designboom
Marni is an Italian fashion brand that takes advantage of the public attention the Salone Mobile in Milan gets to combine a couple of things:
“L’arte del Ritratto” is a photographic exhibition depicting Marni world. A project in collaboration with photographer and filmmaker Francesco Jodice, that continues, his artistic research based on the work of cataloging: the chairs, made by colombian craftsmen, became the stage where Marni employees pose: a tribute dedicated to them destined to last over time.
So it is a sort of Chair Installation where the chair functions as background for a photographic exhibition.
But it is also a rehabilitation project whereby former prison inmates try to get a new life by the production and selling of these outdoor chairs.
Part of the sales goes to a charity in Milan to enable wives of prison inmates to get on with their life. So it is a charity project as well.
The color schemes of the chairs are in line with the Marni color schemes.
Clever, but I still call it simply Chairvertizing.
Is it yellow or is it green this Munich Lounge Chair by Berlin Architects Sauerbruch Hutton?
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