Ghost Chair by Studio Drift

While Guido is away actively searching for even more yellow chairs in Milan and Torino, I am here to update you on some of the chair happenings that are soon to take place elsewhere.

From October 13th to 17th, 2011, London’s annual Super Design design art exhibition will be showing specially commissioned studio pieces by both well known and emerging designers. Studio Drift will be showcasing its Ghost Chair:

The Ghost collection by Studio Drift is a futuristic concept of a chair; a 3D image captured within the boundaries of its outer shell. The chairs are handmade using a unique 3D technique to create unusual subsurface drawings inside the solid Plexiglas chairs. The “inner ghost” is made from over a million tiny air bubbles, the image a reflection of light on air, thus the name Ghost Chair.

Do you think it changed much from the version circa 2008? What am I missing?

Via cribcandy.com & mocoloco.com

Tension Bentwood Chair by Dohoon Kim – 2011 IMM Cologne (25)

Korean designer Dohoon Kim’s Tension Bentwood chair uses the classic bentwood technique Thonet is known for. Many versions of this production method have been developed
for a variety of purposes, and Kim is continuing this exploration by designing and making objects based on both steam and laminated bentwood skills. The Tension Bentwood Chair was presented at IMM Cologne Furniture Fair 2011.

2d image © designboom

Via designboom.com

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on June 11, 2012 at 11:08 PM

Water-On-Chair: What Do Floor Heating & Chairs Have in Common?

I’m fascinated with Maezm these days and I know it shows. Their designs are unusual yet surprisingly practical, if you really come to think of it.

This chair refers to a traditional Korean house style concept of sitting on the heated floor. The reformed on-dol floor heating system supplies the structure of Water-On-Chair with heated water, and the chair changes its color from transparent to semi sheer red as the temperature of the tubes rises. Would you seat on these?

 

Unifying Your Furniture: a Chair ‘Dress’ from Maezm

Sofa-Dress by Maezm is furniture ‘clothes’ that is here to make your chairs more “cushiony”. Using the product can also help unify your existing collection of diverse chairs, dictating a style theme and thus making them go together perfectly.

Sofa-Dress is made of urethan foam, its dimensions: 900 * 700 * 670.

Bone x Skin Hanji Plastic Chair by Taiho Shin for Maezm

Bone x Skin by Taiho Shin of Korean studio Maezm is a chair constructed from a lightweight wooden ‘bone’ made of “hanji”, a traditional Korean paper made from mulberry tree fibers, and solid carbon fiber that gives the chair its ‘skin’.
Via designboom.com