Chair Art – Patricia Piccinini
Via Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Sydney, Australia I found Sydney based artist Patricia Piccinini. She is not a chair artist as such, but uses chairs to drive home her point, as part of her installations.
Rietveld Medina Crate Chair Variation by David van der Veldt
The Medina Variation of Rietveld’s Crate Chair by Dutch designer David van der Veldt, or, as Van der Veldt says: “The Medina Rietveld Fauteuil”.
In August, 2010 David van der Veldt was invited to particiate in a project called “ICI Casa ville inventieve†in Casablanca, Morocco.
Through engaging in the daily life of Casablanca the designers would gain insight into Moroccan culture and perception.
Van der Veldt was impressed by decorations engraved on wooden benches and the typical in layed Moroccan boxes. In the Medina he found a small community consisting of furniture makers. Van der Veldt worked with an engraver, Mohssine El Lyounssi, and a carpenter, Abdellah Lebchina, remaking a crate fauteuil designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1934 while applying the traditional Moroccan geometrical inlaypatterns using copper threat and sheep bone.
At the end of the project the results were exhibited in the Sacre Coeur church
About David van der Veldt
David is a Dutch designer who studied furniture making in Amsterdam, followed by studies at the Gerrit Rietveld academy, where he graduated from in 2009. He started his own design studio DVDV Design.
Pictures by Hicham Zemmar and Jamal Abdenasser
Wooden Hammock by Adam Cornish at Workshopped 10
Adam Cornish showed this beautifully detailed Wooden Hammock at Workshopped 2010
The human spine, and its unique range of motion largely influenced the simple, flexible structure of this design.
Designed as an innovative stylish alternative to the common cloth hammock, the wooden segments allow the hammock to flex and mould to form a wooden cocoon, which cradles the body of the individual user.
Wooden Hammock is designed to be manufactured from a standard sheet of plantation grown plywood, maximizing economy of material whilst minimizing the environmental footprint.
Clipped Wing Stool by Simon Ancher at Workshopped 10
Clipped Wing Bar Stool by Simon Ancher at Workshopped 10.
Clipped Wing – Bar stool
This bar stool represents the final piece in the ‘Clipped Wing’ range.
All objects within the range feature the cantilevered top plane with severe chamfers that hide the structural elements.
The stool is fully demountable.
Dimensions: 400mm x 360mm x 720mm
Materials: Powder coated mild steel frame, painted solid timber seat.
Baled Up Chair by Matthew Conway at Workshopped 10
At Workshopped 2010 Matthew Conway showed his Bale Chair.
In the great Australian tradition of practical design and invention Bale Chair is inspired by shearing, the woolshed and all that it embodies.