Capo by Doshi Levien for Cappellini – Milan 2011 (18)

One more design for the Milan Design Week 2011 is the first collaboration between London based studio Doshi Levien and Italian design brand Cappellini.The shape of the chair called Capo came from the image of a dapper gentleman in a well-cut suit and a felted hat.

With its tabular base, tall back, upturned lapel and cantilevered flexible arms the Capo armchair might remind you of another design week product – Pod Chair by Benjamin Hubert we posted about earlier. Just like Pod is said to be a private chair, Capo is said to provide shelter and “envelope” the sitter, “trasforming them into a boss”. Notice how both chairs come in felt, what seems to be a hot trend with seating furniture right now!

Image via dezeen.com

Scarabike Bicycle Saddle Bench

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An oldie, I know, but since I’m living in a country with one of the highest bicycle densities of the world I have to share this Scarabike, a bicycle saddle bench that, according to Design Boom, was presented at Tokyo Designers Week 2007 by the bicycle prodution company Scarabike. There is also a stool.

Strip by Fabio Novembre for Casamania – Milan 2011 (17)

Strip by Fabio Novembre for Italian furniture manufacturer Casamania is the asymmetric seat born from a surface that “gently folds into itself, flowing outwards almost like that of a woman’s skirt with a slit running up its profile on one side”.

Produced in polyethylene with rotational moulding, like most of Novembre’s chair designs Strip is suitable for outdoor use and is available in different colors, both in matte and lacquered versions.

Via designboom.com

Isis Folding Chair by Jake Phipps

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Jake Phipps set up his London based design studio five years ago. His Isis – reportedly the thinnest – folding chair is now being manufactured by Gebruder Thonet of Vienna. Currently a Poltrona Frau subsidiary.

via Modenus blog.

New Amsterdam Chair by UNStudio for Wilde + Spieth – Milan 2011 (16)

Dutch architects UNStudio are presenting this white plastic a bit spider-ish chair at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week.

Called New Amsterdam Chair, it was originally conceived in connection to the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion in New York, but has since been further developed as a multi-purpose chair for use in a wide variety of different settings (both indoors and outdoors) for production with German firm Wilde + Spieth.

Via dezeen.com