Anti Stress Chair by Bashko Trybek

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Anti Stress chair by Bashko Trybek

Bashko Trybek is a Polish designer (in production by Paris-based Outdoorz Gallery) is composed of hundreds of re-arrangeable stress balls which, much like Pally by Laura Väinölä that we featured earlier,  let you create countless patterns for the seat (and back!). It is also probably more comfortable than the Tennis Balls Chair by Remy and Veenhuizen Guido posted about a while back.

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Anti Stress Chair by Bashko Trybek

Produced in a large (240 ball) ‘low chair’ and a small (128 ball) model, the chair itself consists of a steel wire grid powder-coated in a range of colours. users place stress balls in each of the spaces of the wire frame, arranging them as desired into stripes, motifs, or patterns. The colours of stress balls were selected as magenta, cyan, yellow, black, and white to match the printing raster, turning the entire piece into a playful and interactive interpretation of printing pixels.

Via designboom.com

Chemistry Sofa by Neo Design

Chemistry Sofa by Neo Design

Chemistry Sofa by Neo Design

Chemistry Sofa by Neo Design.
Neo Design is was represented by Art Syndicate.

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on December 1, 2011 at 1:18 AM

De Stijl Magazine – J.J.P. Oud Bench vs Berlage Bench

J.J.P. Oud bench in magazine De Stijl
For me learning about De Stijl, a group of artists, designers and architects, but also the name of a Dutch magazine by the same name, is part of uncovering the history of chair design. Therefore I’m sharing this find of the scans of the first 3 volumes of the magazine “De Stijl” by … the University Library of the University of Iowa.
De Stijl magazine was edited by Theo van Doesburg. Leiden, 1917-1932. In total 8 volumes with 90 numbers were published.

The print is from the hall of a Dutch holiday home designed by J.J.P. Oud with benches integrated in the structure of the hall.

Berlage Bench Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

Although Hendrik Petrus Berlage was not part of De Stijl as he was from a slightly older generation of architects, he must have influenced the members of De Stijl. He integrated a bench in a similar way in the The Hague City Museum of Modern Art (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag). Unfortunately The angle of my lens was not wide enough to capture both benches at once:-)

Update 2023: later I found out that Oud knew Berlage and worked with him and thus is most likely influenced by him as well.

Chair Sighting: Up in the Mountains

An interesting chair sight caught on camera: this random chairs and a table settlement was discovered by a friend of mine vacationing in Ukrain this summer. The spot pictured is one of the stops towards the higher peak called Ai-Petri which is in the Crimean Mountains.

Photo © Andrey Bogdanov

Outline Chair by Michael Samoriz

Outline Chair by Michael Samoriz
Outline Chair by Michael Samoriz Filled in

Intrigued by Julia’s post Outline Chair by Sebastian Errazuriz, I became even more intrigued when I found a second Outline Chair and want to share it with you before I share the Inline Chair I promised to find you.

I think this is an elegant chair and I prefer it without the fill in side panels.

Michael Samoriz is an Ukraine based designer.

Via Behance