Seamless Chair by Bertjan Pot

seamless chair by Bertjan Pot
seamless chai by Bertjan Pot 2
The seamless chair:

was made for a project organized by “Stichting Sofa” and “De Ploeg”. Sofa and De Ploeg asked a few designers to come up with new ideas for upholstered furniture. One of the fantasies I had about upholstering was, what if it could be done seamlessly. After a small quest I came to felt. I have seen several art projects were things were covered seamlessly in felt and since most felt is 100% wool and most upholstery as well…….
In normal furniture upholstered with wool, after a few years the fabric starts to peel and turns in to felt. My hope is that it will also happen with this chair and therefore will only get nicer. Another small advantage is that this chair will not ruin your wooden floor because it doesn’t need those stick-on felt gliders. The proto-type was upholstered by the Amsterdam company Van Vilt.

According to Bertjan Pot

Curule Chair by Pierre Paulin

Curule Chair by Pierre Paulin
Lot 321: Curule chair by Pierre Paulin, France, 1980

Estimate: $3,000 @ €5,000, Result: $10,625

Via Wright.

Glass Chair by René Coulon for Saint Gobain

Glass Chair by Rene Coulon for Saint Gobain
A tempered glass lounge chair, upholstered in brown hide, by René Coulon (1908-1997), for the Saint-Gobain glassworks, circa 1937

Price Realized: €37,000 ($52,536) at Christie’s in Paris, end of March 2011.

Trussardi Centennial Chair by Michael Young – Milan 2011 (08)

trussadi-centennial-chair-by-Michael-Young
Italian fashion house Trussardi celebrates its 100th birthday. To mark this occasion it will relaunch its Trussardi Design brand with a special collection of products called the ‘1oo Collection – Trussardi My Design’, inspired by its extensive archives. The designer is British, but Hong Kong based, Michael Young.

Designer People – Michael Young from Michael Young Ltd on Vimeo.

Via Wallpaper*

Gnutheru Chair by Ross Annels

Gnutheru Chair by Ross Annels
Gnutheru Chair by Ross Annels

Making up an ommission: Featuring Ross Annels. I had photos of one of his chairs on my backburner, but lost or forgot about them.

For an Aussie he is very poetic as you can see from this Gnutheru Chair.

Gnutheru, a Gubbi Gubbi word for shadow or ghost, speaks to the loss of the rich indigenous understanding of place that occurred with the colonial imposition of our rationalist world view, and expresses hope that by drawing inspiration from the shadowy remnants of knowledge we can rebuild an enlivened relationship to place.
Gnutheru is built in steam bent, laminated and handshaped silky oak, with embroidered and embossed macrosuede upholstery. The embossed text is Gubbi Gubbi language as recorded by colonial europeans.