Mutation Sofa by Maarten de Ceulaer – Milan 2012

Mutation Sofa by Maarten de Ceulaer

Mutation Sofa By Maarten de Ceulaer

This Mutation series of Chairs and sofas by Maarten de Ceulaer is not only interesting because of the design by this young Belgian designer, but also because he uses a Google site, which is new to me.

About Maarten de Ceulaer

After obtaining a degree in Interior Design at the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool Brussels, Maarten De Ceulaer decided to focus more on objects. His predilection for strong concepts led him to the Design Academy Eindhoven, where he graduated in 2008 with the projects ‘Pile Of Suitcases’ and ‘Nomad Light Molecule’. During his studies he won the Dynamo Young Belgian Designer Award 2007, and just a few months after his graduation he started collaborating with the renowned Italian gallery Nilufar. His works have been featured in many major design magazines and newspapers worldwide, and have been exhibited at Nilufar and Rossana Orlandi in Milan, Galerie BSL in Paris, Art & Rapy in Monaco, Mint in London, Victor Hunt in Brussels, and various exhibitions and fairs internationally, like Design Miami/Basel.

Photography by Nico Neefs

Chair 2011 by Lotty Lindeman and Wouter Scheublin

Chair 2011 by Lotty Lindeman and Wouter Scheublin

Chair 2011 by Lotty Lindeman and Wouter Scheublin detail

Chair 2011 by Lotty Lindeman and Wouter Scheublin side

Chair 2011 by Lotty Lindeman and Wouter Scheublin

(via Art Design People).

Inuit Armor Chair by Lund & Paarmann for Lopfurniture

Inuit Armor Chair by Lund & Paarmann is one of the designers’ new pieces for Lopfurniture and are extension of their current collection.

Inuit Armor Chair is a dining chair in solid walnut, painted steel and Inuit sealskin from the Phoca groenlandicus (Greenland seal). Interestingly, even with sealskin being an extraordinary material, it is one that is legal to buy and sell.

The reason why the designers chose to use Intuit skins is because the Greenland Inuit hunters have great difficulties in selling their sealskin as the EU has made a rule against importing all other sealskins than the sustainable skins from Greenland.

11,541 Chairs Sarajevo

11,541 Chairs Sarajevo
fotojournalismus:

Red chairs are displayed along a main street in Sarajevo as the city marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war on April 6, 2012. Some 100,000 people died and 2 million people were forced from their homes as Bosnia gave the lexicon of war the term “ethnic cleansing”. Slow-motion intervention eventually brought peace, but at the cost of ethnic segregation.

In a blood-red symbol of loss, empty chairs stretched 800 meters down the central Sarajevo street named after socialist Yugoslavia’s creator and ruler for 35 years, Josip Broz Tito.

Smaller chairs represented the more than 600 children killed in the 43-month siege by Serb forces that held the hilltops. Thousands of people gathered for a concert in remembrance with a choir of 750 Sarajevo schoolchildren.

Queuing for water or shopping at the market during the siege, Sarajevans were picked off by snipers and random shelling. Running out of burial places, many of the bodies were interred beneath a hillside football pitch.

On Thursday, cellist Vedran Smailovic, who became an icon of artistic defiance when he played on a central Sarajevo street as the city was shelled, played again for the first time in his hometown since he left in 1993 as part of an exodus of thousands. [via]

[Credit : Dado Ruvic/Reuters]

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Fractal Chair by Nicole Tomazi

Fractal Chair

idreamcreateandadmire:

Chair, Fractal Collection by Nicole Tomazi

Brazilian designer Nicole Tomazi is launching a new collection called Fractal at this year’s Salone Satellite. A merging of craft, mathematics and nature, the series was designed after she studied fractal geometry, where graphics reproduce natural forms. The collection includes an armchair, table and shelving system.