Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
New fashion-forward cushions for your trusted old sofa, anyone? These Alexander McQueen for The Rug Company tapestry cushions with McQueen’s signature skull motif are handmade using traditional needlepoint technique and come in cream & gold and black & cream color combinations.
Photos via net-a-porter.com
Catifa 46 chair designed by Lievore Altherr Molina for Arper is one of the many great seating furniture pieces used by Swedish firm PS Arkitektur in their designing of the new Skype offices in Stockholm.
Do visit both dezeen.com and psarkitektur.com for more photos of the chairs used!
The work of Aldo Bakker, (Amersfoort 1971) is the work of a designer. With that, Aldo distances himself from the current belief that a strong ‘concept’ will naturally lead to interesting forms. He believes that the mastery and control of aesthetics are essential competencies. Indeed, they constitute a separate discipline. These are remarkable principles for the son of Gijs Bakker, founder of Droog Design and the figurehead of conceptual design. There are possibly stronger similarities between the work of Aldo Bakker and that of his mother, designer of modern jewellery Emmy van Leersum (1930-1984)
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Aldo seeks to surprise and trigger discussion among his public. He allows his public to pose questions about the context and relations of his work. ‘My objects should be able to create a space around themselves, to define their context on their own. I question their meaning and, hence, their use. In the ideal case an object acquires a status that legitimises itself, independently of the surroundings.’
via SuperStories by Aldo Bakker
Found this elegant chair on a blog that has been discontinued in the meantime. The chair was part of an exposition by Swedish designers in Japan in 2007. Not much more heard or seen about it afterward. The name refers to a good glass of Burgundy wine, but it could also have been coined Petal or Tulip chair…Anybody?
And another nice new chair design at the Global:Local booth at 2011 IMM Cologne: The Venus Chair by Marc-Jens Biegel, basically a jewelry designer.
