Woodstock by Lars Stensö

You might not know it, but lately I’ve developed a weird attraction for yellow chairs, so when I saw this creation from Swedish designer Lars Stensö, I couldn’t resist. I gave in, yet again.

Woodstock is a chair of limited edition (1/50), hand-signed by the designer, and can be ordered in black, yellow or brown. The back, seat and front legs of the chair are unified into an elegant structure “reminiscent of the theater’s stage space or a small town saloon of the Wild West back in the day”.

Width: 350  |  Seat Height: 445  |  Height: 860  |  Depth: 340

After earning his master’s degree at the prestigious Swedish design school Konstfack, Lars Stensö founded his own carpentry and design company in the island of Södermalm, Stockholm. By the end of the 1990s Lars started his architect office, and since 2010 Stensö is serving as senior designer and architect for WOODSTOCKHOLM.

Extruded Clay Stool by Max Ceprack

With a result reminding me of a now popular technique of manipulating concrete cloth material, Max Ceprack, a student at the Holon Institute of Technology in Israel, researched and pioneered a process in clay extrusion:

For this purpose, I built two pneumatic extruders (for two different die sizes) that push clay through the die. The Semiindustrial process enabled me to manipulate the material, with never-before-seen precision and  complexity. I chose to express the result of my research process in a new design for a stool. The final result is inspired by the material culture of the Middle East so as to express time and place.

Via designboom.com

Cousin Chair by Meghan O’Halloran

Cousin Chair by Meghan O’Halloran
Cousin Chair by Meghan O’Halloran Side

Meghan O’Halloran asked our attention for her work. With pleasure we feature this elegant Cousin Chair.

Meghan O’Halloran was trained as an architect at Cornell University in Ithaca NY. Before becoming immersed in high quality home goods, she worked at KPF London, Santiago Calatrava NYC, Architectural Record NYC, Arup Shanghai. She is 27 and has lived in Rome, Milan, London, Shanghai, New York, Ithaca, and San Francisco, learning new languages wherever possible.

Boet Stools by Note Design Studio – M&O 2011

Boet, which means ‘nest’ in Swedish, is a stool that takes its form from that of a bird’s home that sits high amongst the trees – elevated, protected, supported by strong branches and a trunk where a soft, rounded place to rest can be found. Created by Stockholm-based Note Design Studio, the seating object is composed of a metal structure with a cork seat.

Boet comes in white, black and blue, and there are high and low versions. The stools are on show at the Couplicite Exhibition during Maison et Objet 2011 in Paris. Personally, I’m a big fan of this idea to combine a polished shiny base with a somewhat rough and ‘raw’ matte seat in one product!

Via designboom.com

Impossible Wood Chair by Doshi Levien


Impossible Wood Chair by Doshi Levien Green Back

An arm chair for Moroso, that references the genre of light, graceful, bent wood frame chairs but would be impossible to make in any other way than by injection moulding, hence the name “impossible wood”. We were intrigued by the depth and texture of “liquid wood” that is the opposite of slick, homogenous, surface perfect plastic, currently used for most moulded chairs.

Via Stylepark and Doshi Levien