Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Yesterday I noticed Dutch designer Richard Hutten has a presence on Facebook and asked him to “befriend” me. Today he did. So I found out he has an exihibition at the Zuiderzee Museum by the name of Chairisma (nice new word) which is in a little city Enkhuizen, 1/2 hour driving north of Amsterdam.
The exhibition runs from 2 April up to 9 September 2011.
Stoelen is Dutch for Chairs. The Chair you see is called Layers.
Tennis Balls Chair by Remy and Veenhuizen, Photo © Pattrick Paassen of arttriq, but see also his photos at Flickr.
Blogging about chairs is hard work and sometimes very frustrating.
Do a search for “é” here and you will see several posts misfitted. Behind the screens I’m trying to repair the errors. The reason is that recently we lost all posts and we had to restore a backup. The problem that occurred is that the “é” (e emphasis Egue) came back as “é” thanks to the stupid computers. So we lost for instance links to photos that have an é in their name here …..one of those was the photo of Remy and Veenhuizen’s Ontmoetingsplekhek or TheFenceWithaBench. The correct spelling of Rene is René…. While searching for the photo that off course had disappeared from the computer I was working from, I came across the above photo of their Tennis Ball Chair.
Many things came together at once: I had an incentive to repair the posts dedicated to Remy and Veenhuizen first. They are Dutch Designers. Chairblog is a blog founded by a Dutchman (me). The talented young photographer is a Dutchman as well. Moreover by bringing together a nice looking Dutch Girl with a nice looking chair (or bench if you wish) with a traditional and very typical landscape of the 19 mills near Kinderdijk…actually the location is on the Unesco heritage list under the name of…Kinderdijk/Elshout (and what is my name?) …so I had to share this with you all, because it made my day and my frustration has ebbed away…
It also made me change my name from GJE into my full name.
‘Outline Chairs’ by Chilean-born New York-based designer Sebastian Errazuriz return seating design to its simplistic form and fundamental roots, “rescuing the linear drawing of the basic iconic chair” by replacing the back and seat with tempered glass. The series is on exhibition at Cristina Grajales Gallery in New York through October 21st, 2011.
Via designboom.com
Kateryna (or Ekateryna) Sokolova from Kiev gives Gerrit Rietveld’s Zig Zag a new twist on her Behance portfolio.
Another wooden gem from Vivian Chiu is the Pixel Chair made from wooden cubes that are laminated together in a brick-layed formation.
Vivian Chiu is a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in the Furniture Design department. Much of her work is a mixture of sculptural and functional, and shows her interest in the materiality of wood. Her work aims to satisfy her passion for repetitive woodworking and visual flow.