Burning chairs by Hongtao Zhou are very similar in appearance to the designer’s Ice chairs, but only till you light them up. These chairs are made of wax and are basically sets of numerous candles pressed together. Candlelit dinner just took on a whole new meaning…
Conform by William Lee
Conform chairs by New York-based artist and industrial designer William Lee are part of new work that was geometrically inspired. At first sight, these cube-like frames don’t even look like chairs. The minimalist creations are made of simple frames in neon green or pink and stretched woven elastic seats that “conform” to the body, hence the chairs’ name.
Via design-milk.com
b.a-ba: Monobloc Makeover by Cyrille Candas
I felt I needed two posts, Via’s Carte Blance for the Costes Chair and the connection between Joe Colombo and Vico Magistretti as an intro for this post…
Currently Via has an exposition until December 31, 2011, b.a-ba. It showcases a new way of giving the (in)famous Monobloc Plastic Chair a worthy second life. A Monobloc Rehab one could say. Emmaus is a huge French organization that annually takes in thousands and thousands chairs that cannot be resold. Among them plenty of Monoblocs. In addition it recycles tons and tons of textile unsuitable for reuse. French designer Cyrille Candas has brought the two together with paint. She has the textile ground into a short fiber called floc an mixes the floc with colorful paint. She also gave it a label (b.a-ba) and there is a new sustainable brand being born. Quite sustainable I would say. And we have an addition for our own colorful palettes of chair colors we are slowly, but gradually building into color portfolios here on the blog and via pinterest.
Monobloc Chair: Joe Colombo and Vico Magistretti
Stacking Chair Universale by Joe Colombo
Photo by Midcentury Modern ZA
Selene Chair by Vico Magistretti (Photo Designboom)
What’s the world’s most famous chair?
The anonymous, cheap, light-weight, portable, waterproof, stackable, easy to clean, plastic patio chair, manufactured from one (ca. 2 kilogram) piece of polypropylene in a single process, or the Monobloc Plastic Chair, produced in millions
In a post Designboom describes the history of the (in)famous monobloc: After Joe Colombo designed the first all plastic chair, Stacking Chair Universale, a chair with two types of add on legs to make its hight adjustable, the Selene Chair by Vico Magistretti was the first all plastic chair in one piece.
Designboom should know, as its co founder Birgit Lohmann, worked for Vico as his personal design assistant for 15 years.
Tree Hugging Chair
Tree hugging chair
(Source: http://www.unechaisenommeedesir.fr/tag/chaise%20rouge)