Cul is Cool Tour

cul-is-cool-photo-Manel-UbedaPhoto Manel Ubeda

cul-is-cool-photo-Nienke-KlunderPhoto Nienke Klunder

cul-is-cool-photo-PorcuatroPhoto Porcuato

cul-is-cool-photo-Bill-DurginPhoto Bill Durgin

cul-is-cool-photo-Juan-GattiPhoto Juan Gatti

cul-is-cool-photo-CiveraPhoto Civera

I must have been under the rocks … Only this week Yatzer pointed me to the Cul is Cool Tour. It started last year at ICFF in NYC and arrived at Valencia Design Week this year.

So I came across “Furniture Publisher” (I would prefer furniture label) ABR again – see Cul Stool by ABR and Sitting Pretty in Berlin – and HAT Gallery a new Spanish Gallery.

It always amazes me how good photography can tell a very good story of a product, in this case a stool, the Cul Stool. It is also amazing that ABR itself doesn’t pimp up its own website a bit more with larger size photos….

Chairs by Tony Paul at Wright

Pair Of Tony Paul Chairs

These Mid Century chairs by Tony Paul have been in my back log for quite some time…

Lot 104

Tony Paul, chairs, pair

USA, c. 1954 iron, canvas, wicker

25 w x 24 d x 42 h inches

Estimate: $1500-$2000

via Wright.

Offset Stool by Giorgio Biscaro

Offset Stool by Giorgio Biscaro

The offset stool follows the Ikea principle: Sell it in a flat pack and leave the buyer to his own creativity with the paint brush.

The Offset stool is construed with plywood strips bent at the same angle. The manufacturer bends a long, single sheet of plywood and then cuts it into pieces. These pieces are drilled and paired to three pantograph cut legs through three couples of little iron bars to avoid gluing and to provide extra stiffness.

This construction method allows to minimize scraps, and quickens the production, since all strips are worked at the same time. Moreover, if the plywood seat has some flaws, you can throw it away without discarding a big piece of wood.

Via Polkadot.

Or do you fave a Pumpkin Chair for Halloween?


Like the Pumpkin Swing Chair? Via Best Home News

Happy Halloween! – A Propos.. Torture Chairs

For Halloween I thought to feature a couple of torture chairs…

1) Starting
With a photo I showed earlier in July, 2010.

Via Professor Mark Csele’s Projects Page – Halloween Scares!.

2) Then there is:
halloween chair by Hongtao Zhou

The Halloween Chair by Hongtao Zhou

3) And

“The Devil’s Chair”, in the actual well kept Mary Immaculate Cemetery of Kirksville, Missouri (above) is said to be haunted by the devil on Halloween night. From this chair it is said he appears to those present each year. Or so the urban legend goes.

There are thousands of actual Devil’s Chairs around the world and many have strange legends and tales that still defy explanation. Some are located in cemeteries in the United States as the one above from Kirkville. Usually they are associated with terrifying urban legends.

Via Haunted America Tours

4) And a Real Medieval Torture Chair

Torture Chair
Image source: Telegraph UK

Also known as the Judas Chair, the Chair of Torture was a terrible device of the Middle Ages. It was used until the late 1800’s in Europe.

There are many variants of the chair. They all have one thing in common: spikes cover the back, arm-rests, seat, leg-rests and foot-rests. The number of spikes in one of these chairs ranges from 500 to 1,500.

To avoid movement, the victim’s wrists were tied to the chair or, in one version, two bars pushed the arms against arm-rests for the spikes to penetrate the flesh even further. In some versions, there were holes under the chair’s bottom where the torturer placed coal to cause severe burns while the victim still remained conscious.

Via Medievality

More to follow…