Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
I’ve been browsing IMM Cologne irl (In Real Life) for chairs yesterday, January 23, 2011. I’ll post about it as a series at 2011 IMM Cologne (1) etc.
The first chair that asked my attention is this Speedster by long time Dutch designer Gerard van den Berg. Just before I decided to pay IMM a visit, I was wondering why I hadn’t published anything from his hand, because some of his chairs are very comfy. Nowadays Gerard produces some of his designs himself under the name Label.nl.
Another DESIGN AND DESIGN 2011 winning design by Vadim Kibardin, who seems to have a good chance of becoming one of the chair designers whose careers I enjoy following. The Infinity Chair pictured above is nothing like Vadim’s Angel Chair from a few posts back but is just as unique. The plywood chair’s shape and form pay homage to the infinity symbol yet interpret it in a whole new way. Makes me think of infinity in 3D.
Liquid Bench by Ross Lovegrove
Lovegrove describes the process of designing the Liquid Bench as being similar to animation — he envisioned slowly pulling a block of liquid aluminum apart, and then snapped a freeze-frame picture to capture the final form. The bench is actually milled from a solid block of aluminum and finished with a mirror polish.
Photo credit: Jack Coble
via Wired.
Found this Military Chair by Gerrit Rietveld at Wright where it fetched $21,600 in 2008.
Update: Same or similar chair fetched $21,250 in 2012
Think Black Lines by Nendo, a solo exhibition at Phillips de Pury & Company in September 2010.