Hunting Chair by Børge Mogensen

Hunting Chair by Boerge Mogensen

Hunting Chair by Børge Mogensen

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Boerge Mogensen “Hunting Chair” 1950

(Source: http://www.danish-furniture.com/designers/boerge-mogensen/)

Strangled Stool by Brabbu

Paduang-Woman-Neck

“Strangled” Stool

Off course it isn’t strangled, but it looks like it. This is a Paduang stool. The designers were inspired by the habit of the woman from Paduang to enlarge and enrich their necks with copper rings.

Okay I admit, a complicated way of attaching a stool to our Looking for the Lady Chairchez la Femme category. But maybe we may suggest to Brabbu to make the connection more explicit by providing us with some photos with a beautiful Paduang lady being seated on their Paduang Stool.

It is also part of our category Design Similarities which is aimed at pointing out what inspired the designer.

Via BRABBU Design Forces.

UnPølished Chair by Dik Scheepers

UnPølished Chair

Another one for our concrete chairs collection:
Experimental furniture in papercrete and whitewood by Dutch designer Dik Scheepers.

Hopmi Chair by Rietveld Discovered in 2008

Hopmi Chair by Rietveld

Hopmi Chair by Gerrit Rietveld

In 2008 this chair was donated as lose parts in a bag to the Centraal Museum of Utrecht, a Dutch museum with a large collection of Rietveld furniture. Although the design was known. It was believed this chair was never produced. Well until it was donated to the museum: It appeared a small Dutch manufacturer by the name of Hopmi had produced some pieces. Originally Hopmi produced locks for bikes, but in the prewar 30ies it ventured into furniture because of the economic depression. The chair can be taken apart and stored as a flatpack. Ikea avant la lettre.

Via Design Blog.

Update

Just to demonstrate how wonderfully small the world has become with Internet:

I searched a bit on Hopmi and it turned out that the factory made other parts for bikes as well. I found this shield:
Hopmi Shield in China Bicycle Museum

Found on a Dutch Blog reporting about a visit of the China Bicycle Museum in Beijing….where this Hopmi shield was on display.

Via Chinablog.nl

Splatter Chair 1 by Richard Artschwager

Splatter Chair 1 by Richard Artschwager

Splatter Chair 1 by Richard Artschwacher

Found this piece at Designbooms article still life with chair – installations and manipulations of the undemanding object. It is part of the MoMa Collection.