Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
While featuring the Molecular Chair by Antonio Pio Saracino, I had to think of the Nano Chair Dutch designer Lucas Maassen designed some time ago.
This chair is not visible with your naked eye, only with a SEM microscope. The Chair is build with a Focused Ion Beam and is 5 micron, and made from platinum.
Philippe Starck designed these armchairs for the Paramount Hotel.
Found at Soho Treasures, Located in Soho- the heart & soul of Manhattan, NYC. It has over 7500 sq. ft. Mid Century to Contemporary furnishings & decor.
And here a prototype found at Icollector:
Philippe Starck prototype Miss Paramount chair for the Paramount hotel
France, 1987
upholstery, thread, painted wood
14.5 w x 21 d x 41 h inches
Provenance: Collection of Ian Schrager, New York
Industry Gallery is a Washington, DC based Gallery that exhibits “21st century international design by artists whose works are redefining the relationship between art and design.”
Recently it featured designer and architect Antonio Pio Saracino whose Molecular chair drew my attention.
Via Mocoloco.
I rediscovered the designer who is responsible for the various Pixel Chair and Sofa Upholsteries, the Spanish designer Christian Zuzunaga, also know as Mr Pixel. Here on the Moel Lounge Chair by Inga Sempe for Ligne Roset
Via Blog Esprit Design
Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on November 30, 2011 at 4:49 PM
Lathe Chair I (2008)
Lathe Chair II (2008)
Lathe Chair III 2008
Lathe Chair IV
Lathe Chair V
Lathe Chair VI
Lathe Chair VII
Lathe Chair VIII
Lathe Chair IX
Lathe Chair X
Sebastian Brajkovic was born in Amsterdam in 1975 to a Dutch-Indonesian mother and a Croatian-Italian father, Brajkovic studied cabinet-making before enrolling at Design Academy Eindhoven. He started his Lathe Series as a graduation project for the Eindhoven Academy and has since continued working on the series. I know of 10 thus far, two of them I’ve featured already here. I like to bring them together in one post to show the development of the series.
He shares with his audience an understanding and respect for what has passed, but he does not merely reproduce traditional styles in a bid to replicate history. Rather, Brajkovic transforms and mutates archetypal shapes into new forms, using contemporary technologies. These hybrids exist entirely in their own present, but are built on our recognition of the past within them.
He’s represented by London based 