Chair With a Wedding Dress by Florence Doléac

Paris based Florence Doléac has dressed a chair with a poetic felt wedding dress made entirely by hand. She was inspired by an old tradition in Kyrchyzstan: The mother gives her daughter at her wedding a carpet of felt. Each stitch represents a day of happiness for the new couple. Florence’s dress has an infinite number of points that intertwine like long hair. The title for this object is “La Chaise Mise en Nu”. I would translate it as “The Chair Exhibited in its Bare Existence (or Meaning)”.

Date: 2002

Materials: felt wool rope leash

Design: Doléac Florence – Paris, France

Slow Design: Limited edition of 30 copies, parts made locally, recycled materials (felt) and natural (wool), heat, poetry, softness, and praised the couple’s daily happiness.

Unusual Chair by Allen Jones

Unusual Chair by Alan Jones
Some time ago Oddee posted about 20 of the World’s Strangest Chairs. Most of those mentioned we’ve featured already in our category unusual (currently with 115 posts). However I had not seen yet this chair that Allen Jones designed in 1969 and which is part of the Tate collection.

D62 Swivel Chair by El Lissitzky at 2011 IMM Cologne (5)

D62 Swivel Chair by El Lissitzky - photo by chairblog
D62 Swivel Chair by El Lissitzky - photo by chairblog

It is very well possible that Jean-Paul Gaultier knew of this chair when he designed his “Ben Hur” Chair.

Anyway, the Tecta rep at the 2011 IMM Cologne booth was not aware of the existence of the Ben Hur Chair. He was just swiveling the chair that I wanted to take a photo of and kept standing in the way. Then all of a sudden there came two other photographers who claimed space to take photo’s. The life of a reporter is not always easy. But I solved it by taking a photo of one of the two guys in a D62.

El Lissitzky designed this D62 chair in 1928.

Another term for this type of armchair is Barrel Chair.

Cantilever Armchair D42 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at 2011 IMM Cologne (4)


D42 By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
And again at the Tecta Booth at IMM Cologne 2011: Armchair D42 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Asymmetric Chair by Stefan Wewerka at 2011 IMM Cologne (3)

Asymmetric Chair by Stefan Wewerka

Asymmetric Chair by Stefan Wewerka at 2011 IMM Cologne (3)

At the IMM 2011 Tecta booth I found an Asymetric Chair by Stefan Wewerka, a design from 1979.
Asymmetric Chair with Stefan Wewerka himself

And here Stefan Himself in his Asymmetric Chair. Photo thanks to Tecta.