Cepezed Charity Chair based on the ONO Chair

Cepezed, a Dutch architecture firm, made an interpretation of the ONO Chair by Matthias Weber with a view on the charity involved. As the pictogram shows, you can use the chair at home, you can walk with the chair on your back. You can use it to transport products to sell on a market. You can sit on it during the marked. In addition Cepezed found a sponsor, a Dutch bank that likes to show off it’s involvement in the product to “look good”.

About The Charity Chair project
The slogan of Charity Chair is „Pimp up my chair“
Charity Chair is a cooperation of the German Architecture Magazine AIT and the Swiss furniture manufacturer Dietiker. They have invited European architects and interior designers to become part of the „Charity Chair“ project.

The brief was to redesign the wooden chair Ono. In 2010 the 120 (because Dietiker celebrates it’s 120ieth birthday) resulting chairs will tour several German and European cities, including London for the London Design week in September.

In November 2010 the 120 chairs will be auctioned in Berlin and the proceedings will go to a a children’s project in the South African township Langa near Cape Town. The South African outpost of the diocese of Augsburg will make sure that all money will arrive exactly where it is needed. It is the orphanage in Langa. who cares for children having lost their parents due to Aids, crime, lack of health care and terrible social conditions.

The architects and interior designers who have been working with the chair come from Scandinavia, Great Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. 100 chairs have been allocated directly to architects and interior designers, 15 are being worked on by universities and also children are involved via AIT children workshops.

Mr Lounge Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


I found this Mr Lounge Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on Christie’s site where it was sold 5 years ago for $1,146.

Chair Lady Punk

And another wire chair, the Lady Punk

Price $1,530

Size 170 x 45 x 45 cm or in inches 66.9″ x 17.7″ x 17.7″

Material steel

Found at End Side.

Pipeline Seating System by Harry Allen Design


Harry Allen Design designed the Pipeline seating system of four elements that can be connected to various combinations for Dune

Oh No? Oh Yes! – the Oyes Charity Chair based on the Ono Chair





Oyes Charity Chair based on the Ono Chair by Dutch architects Hofman Dujardin. With this non chair they again give an example of the typical Dutch way of thinking outside the box. Although….why not take the table in stead of the chair in the neighborhood of the Table Mountain?

Urban Charity for Cape Town
The German magazine AIT invited 100 selected architecture and interior design offices across Europe to redesign the ‘ONO’ chair produced the Dietiker company. The newly designed chairs will be exhibited in the context of a road show in the AIT-Architektur Salons Hamburg, Munich, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Stuttgart. The auction of the chairs will talk place in autumn 2010. The revenues generated through this auction will support the Langa Township in Cape Town, South Africa.

After we received the beautiful ONO chair designed by Matthias Weber we asked ourselves why would we transform a beautiful chair? Why would we start cutting, pasting, painting, sewing while the product is good the way it is? We decided to change the approach, in stead of transforming the chair we decided to transform the context. The chair stays the way it is, we only create a new surrounding stimulating the fantasy of the observer. After studying various options the final choice was to upscale the chair a 1000 times and place it in Cape Town, the final destination of the Charity project.

The chair becomes a model of a building with a height of 760m, an urban icon for Cape Town. The transformation lies within our own fantasy. The mental change due to the overwhelming scale, entirely compensates the absence of physical changement of the chair itself . While the ONO chair can be used by a maximum of two people, the OYES chair with a surface of 800.000m² can host about 50.000 people. An extremely generous chair!! Four slim feet of 25x30m will touch Cape Town in the business district and the harbor. These four new locations will be connected through identical towers with a height of 460m. Each foot will intervene in the existing urban fabric, connecting people from different areas.