Hinges for a Hans Wegner Valet Chair – Anybody?

Hans Wegner Valet Chair Hinges

Hans-Wegner-Valet-Chair

Received an e-mail from a Chair Blog fan:

Your blog is wonderful.
Thank you for doing such a thorough job and for sharing your information and observations with the rest of us.

I too am a chair fan and I have an original vintage Hans Wegner Valet chair that is unusable because the hinges were not on it when I purchased it. I wonder if in your journeys across the web you may have found a source for rare chair parts or another Hans Wegner collector that has valet chair hinges. From one chair lover to another I greatly appreciate any input you may be able to offer.

It would be great to actually be able to sit on this special piece.

As the hinges photo shows they are really special. Decided to post the question here to help our fan. Glad to oblige. Anybody an idea?

Found the Valet Chair photo in an excellent post about Hans Wegner furniture at the Chinese language blog I Design and the hinge photo at Live Auctioneers

The Shrunken Cray-1 by Daryl Brach

I thought the Cray 1

Remember my last year’s April Fool’s Day prank?

I posted a photo of one of the original iconic Cray-1 computers. For me it was like a mid century sofa. I took the photo in the Paris Computer Museum at the Big Arch. In that museum they also have a collection of sandows chairs by Rene Herbst.

It was Eloise Moorehead who busted me immediately. Coincidentally Eloise had posted a photo of another Cray-1 not long before. She also had mistaken it for a sofa, maybe an ideal sofa for in a Hotel lobby. She imagined even a cosy telephone boot inside:-)

Cray-1-Scale-model-by-Daryl-Brach
Recently I discovered case modder Daryl Brach had taken the Cray-1 as an example to rebuild on a scale of 1/3 with two PC’s in it for use at home. Probably this one has more computing power than the original Cary-1. It made me think back to my first encounter in Paris.

Via Honey, Daryl Brach shrunk the Cray-1 supercomputer and The Register

Popular on Chair Blog in February 2011

So sorry. Again pressed the publish button too early erroneously…

Like Popular in January 2011, I like to brag about Chair Blog’s successes in February 2011. Despite two major outages on February 26 and February 28, 2011, we succeeded to attract over 100,000 page views with over 43,000 visitors in February, 2011.

Most attractive were the following 10 posts:

  1. Bram Stoker’s Chair series by Sam Taylor-Wood of August 2008 (2143 views).
  2. Luxury Airplane seats of February 2008 (968 Views).
  3. Thonet no 18 of April 2007 (425 Views)
  4. Cave Book Case Seating by Sakura Adachi of February 2008 (424 views).
  5. Sensory Deprivation Skull Chair by Atelier van Lieshout of March 2008 (421 views).
  6. Rietveld by Cassina, by Rietveld and by Jenner of May 2007 (399 views).
  7. Philippe Starck Toy Chair 1999 of June, 2007 ( 240 Views)
  8. Ready To Wear Chair High Heels? of October, 2009 (231 Views).
  9. Marc Newson Embryo Chair for sale at Christie’s of September, 2007 (231 views).
  10. Reading Chair by Remi van Oers of February 2011 (190 views) which is the best newcomber post of February 2011….

Twist Chair by Stefan Heiliger at 2011 IMM Cologne (16)

Twist Chair by Stefan Heiliger Photo by Chair Blog
Twist Chair by Stefan Heiliger Photo by Chairblog
Twist Chair by Berlin based Stefan Heiliger for Tonon Italia. From aside I would say “Rietveld Zig Zag”, but then completely different. My camera found it somewhere at IMM Cologne 2011. Glad it did, because Stefan has so many more chairs that deserve our attention.

Skull Chair by Pool Reminds You That You Will Die – Milan 2011 (01)

Skull Chair by Pool
‘Souviens Toi Que Tu Vas Mourir’ (French for “remember that you will die”) chair by Pool is definitely one of the most interesting reminders of the mortality of all living things I’ve seen so far! I appreciate a chair with a purpose too, and would have gladly put it in my backyard (if I had one) or even by the house’s front door to add some meaning to the surrounding landscapes.

The chair is on show April 12th through April 17th at ‘Nouvelle Vague, the New French Domestic Landscape’ exhibition during the Milan Design Week 2011.

Via designboom.com