Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
An amazing find, not only this concrete chair by Omer Arbel of Vancouver-based design studio Omer Arbel Office (OAO), but also the blog Minimalissimo that has Dutch origins just like Chair Blog.
The 8.0 chair is made of an ultra strong concrete using a mould.
Via Minimalissimo.
This elegant mahogony prototype chair that Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud (1890-1963) designed for a meeting room of Royal Dutch Shell in 1947 was manufacured by the former Mutters factory here in The Hague. It was recently on display in the Gemeente Mueum of The Hague and got me inspired to look out for more of Oud’s work.
Dutch furniture brand Artifort will present the Shark Chair by Dutch designer René Holten at Il Salone del Mobile 2011 in Milan.
René Holten’s (1961) first design for Artifort was the DoDo in 1997. This brings me to a new item, because various furniture brands seem to feature a Dodo Chair.
Artifort started 120 years ago as an upholstery company in Maastricht. Designers such as Kho Liang Ie, Pierre Paulin and Geoffrey Harcourt were instrumental in today’s success of Artifort.
This extraordinary adjustable Lounge Chair mounted on skis was reportedly designed for the Maharaja of Indore by Emile-Jacques Ruhlman (1879-1933) in 1929.
Estimate: €2,000,000 – €3,000,000 ($2,814,685 – $4,222,028)
Price Realized: €2,865,000 ($4,067,997)Sale 1000, Les Collections du Chateau de Gourdon. 29 – 31 March 2011, Paris, France
The note says: While the Maharaja of Indore did in fact commission a desk and a chair and storage units to the exhibited design, he did not order a version of this chaise longue.
via Christie’s.
