Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Time to share this austere bench by Berlage with you. Recently on display at a Berlage overview exhibition at The Hague City Museum of Modern Art (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag). Again, although you can barely see it, the back reclines a bit and the load is not on the legs but on the seating, which is typical for Berlage’s chair design.
Facebook becomes handier and handier when you’re looking for chairs. Found on Cassina’s Facebook Page:
Luisa Chair by Franco Albini
Luisa Chair
Franco Albini (1949/55)
It took almost fifteen years to develop a final version able to meet all the Master’s demands. The purity of the composition is highlighted by an increased thickness at the joints and by flush-fitting and aligning, which illustrate the expressiveness of a new language. These are the elements that make the Luisa chair a piece of timeless historic value, and the winner of La Rinascente-Compasso d’Oro prize in 1955.The backrest and seat have a steel frame and polyurethane foam padding. Wood frame available in walnut stained mahogany, natural ashwood or ashwood stained slate color.
I would say this is good design: The back reclines AND the seating is angled backward AND visually the back and the top of the back and the legs are in one line, so it is not likely you hit the backlegs with your toe when you walk past it.
The Union Panorama is another variant of the Union Bench Collection by Sweden based Jangir Maddadi.
via Design Milk.
Sold for Euro 2,600.- at Quittenbaum
Update
As one of our commenters suggested: Like the Erasmus Bridge of Rotterdam:
Last edited by gje on April 15, 2011 at 5:20 PM
Johanna Mattsson, a recent graduate of the Danish Design School in Copenhagen, has created the Ashes to Ashes chair as her graduation project.
via Contemporist.