Via Holy Chic I came across an interesting interview with Joseph Kosuth of the One Two Three Chair installation while working on an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris.
The One Two Three Chair installation is in MOMA and was an inspiration for Eric Ku
Reindeer Foyer Chair by Baita Design
A simple multi functional chair idea. The Reindeer foyer chair by Brazilian Studio Baita Design, part hat and coat hanger and part chair.
via Designer Homes.
Easy Lounge from Wood Chips only by Passad
A green chair manufacturer is Philippines based Passad. They put together tiny chips of wood of the Gmelina tree which grows abundantly in the Philippines and hand craft them into sculptural furniture like this Easy Lounge chair
Via Christopher Adach .
LCP Lounge Chair by Maarten van Severen
I found this image of the LCP Lounge Chair by Maarten van Severen at Hive, an interesting Portland, USA, based chair distributor.
LCP – “Low Chair Plastic” – is a fitting name for this low lounge chair. Created with a single piece of molded transparent plastic which spirals around itself to form a radically innovative seat. Thanks to an exclusive technology, LCP is elastic, soft and resistant in spite of its light and transparent appearance.
This one is made by Kartell in Italy while most other chairs by Maarten van Severen, one of my favorite chair designers, are made by Vitra in Germany/Switzerland
About Hive
Hive was founded in 2002 with the idea that Good Design can and should be presented in an inspired, knowledgeable and friendly manner.
From humble beginnings fueled primarily on inspiration, hive has grown to inhabit its own free-standing building in the Pearl District, Portland’s most upscale urban neighborhood. We are proud to be an authorized retailer for Alessi, Artemide, Artifort, Carl Hansen, Cassina, Flos, Kartell, Knoll & Vitra to name just a few. hive has been noted in national magazines such as Dwell, Index, In Style, Lucky and Western Interiors magazines.
Lo Res Chair by United Nude
The story behind this Lo Res Chair by United Nude is quite interesting:
United Nude is a brand founded by Dutch architect and designer Rem D. Koolhaas (not the Rem Koolhaas of OMA who is Rem D.’s uncle) and British 7th generation of famous shoe makers Galahad Clark. (I’ve walked on several of their Desert Boots).
The first shoe of United Nude is the Möbius shoe which was inspired by a chair, the Barcelona Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Now United Nude has teamed up with Rapidform and formed Lo Res Project. They had used Rapidform already to design several shoes and took this one step further. They scanned an existing design, in this case the Panton Chair and morphed it into something else.
So the circle is round: The designer who initially was inspired by a chair to design a shoe was now inspired by the design process of his shoes to create a chair.