Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Tube chair is a sweet and easy on the eye design by Andrew Kopp, who is an Iowa State University graduate with a BFA in Integrated Studio Arts and a double major in Business Management. Kopp has also recently received his MFA in Furniture Design at Rhode Island School of Design.
Found via design-milk.com
As of last year the Central Museum of Utrecht has put its Rietveld Collection online. There I found this Tubular Crosslegged Zig Zag Chair.
And in order to show that we also cover Chair News (sometimes):
From:Photoblog MSN:
A rebel fighter poses for a photo as he sits on a two seater couch with golden mermaid with the face of Aisha Gadhafi, the daughter of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi in her house in Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011
Affinity Chair by Ben Alun-Jones.
Born out of an attempt at the impossible, the Affinity chair explores our relationship with light and space. When alone, the chair merges into the background becoming almost invisible as it cloaks itself in its environment. However when approached, the chair wakes, becoming transparent, revealing hidden depths and creating an almost infinite space beneath. As the sitter comes closer to the chair, the chair’s heart rate increases reminding us that even though it wants to escape, it is firmly and almost painfully stuck in front of us.
Photography by Luke Bennett
Photo by Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal
And thanks to this online gallery of the Guardian Theo van Doesburg comes to Tate Modern I can add a fourth chair known to be designed by Theo van Doesburg, shortly before his untimely death in 1931. The old photo of this chair thanks to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, which mentions the chair was for his studio in Meudon.