EcoArmchair by Essent’ial.
Scraps of cloth used to clean printing presses used as upholstery for Essent’ials Eco Armchair Sofa and Pouf series.
via Mocoloco.
Gone for the Season Chair and Table Sculpture by James Sagui
James Sagui allowed me to feature his wonderful Until Next Year, Gone for the Season Project….Actually it is a set, a sculpted chair with a sculpted table. It deserves a place in our Chair Art category.
Currently he has his studio in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
Chairs by Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1)
Chairs by Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1)
Time to share some chairs by Hendrik Pieter Berlage. First photos of the main inspiration for Berlage’s chair designs: An Egyptian Chair.
About Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934) is an important Dutch Architect who strongly believed in total concepts and therefor was involved in interior decoration and furniture design as well.
Currently there is a Berlage exposition at the The Hague City Museum of Modern Art (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag) with an overview of Berlage’s work, because of the celebration of the opening of the museum – which was a design of Berlage – 75 years ago. Luckily for the chair aficionados there are many chairs from him on display until February 27, 2011. Berlage studied in Zurich and also traveled in the USA in 1911. Therefore it is not strange that he was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Striped Chair by The Bourroullec Brothers
Some time ago I’ve visited Paris and took photos of these chairs without knowing what they were. The location was the Musée du Quai Branly (next to the Eiffel Tower). Only recently I discovered these were Striped Chairs by The Bourroullecs for Magis.
We were very interested in designing a coherent collection made of different object typologies: A normal chair, an armchair, a high stool and a long chair. We wanted to create an easily identifiable collection, making coherent an association of heteroclites elements.
Then we were willing to work in plastic, which as you know requires strong investments in moulding. Thus we decided to make a collection with very few elements. In fact, 2 main elements or typologies: stripes of plastic (changing only in length) and small pieces to fix the stripes on the metallic structure (same ones for all). Doing this, we obtained a coherent graphic unity. Then, the name came, of course, by itself.
Dali Bench
Dali Bench near the Dali Museum (The Dali) at St Petersburg in Florida, USA.