Meet our new Contributor Polley Wong


Shortly after I installed Chair Blog’s Face Book Fanpage, a young lady asked my attention by posting various interesting new chairs on the face book fan page wall. That was Polly Wong.

I asked her whether she would like to publish here on Chair Blog. Polley answered to my request: “With Pleasure” and so the Lox Barstool is her first post here on Chair Blog. I’m looking forward to a long and fruitful cooperation an am happy to have Polley on board.

About Polley
Polley is a blogger herself at Polleys Mumblings (already from 2006) and at Pawl’s Coding.

Born in New York, and currently living and working in Taiwan. She studied Computer Science and graduated at the Ming Chuan University, Taiwan, Taoyuan. She works as a technology manager in the Taiwan Branch of a firm that drives the movement of open or partially open source software license, the Creative Commons. She has her share of designing and developing quite a number of websites and I believe her Nickname is PHP olley:-)

During the day she is the tech nerd girl. Next to her professional life, she secretly studies how to obtain “the eye of an artist,” by reading hundreds of art blog articles everyday. Interior Design has always been her passion. She’s considering to apply for a position at a Graduate school in the US or Europe to study Interior Design, while working for tuition. Her Dream is, sometime in the future, to be able to design for free for the poor and elderly people in need. Her background in design or art is meager. She claims her skill in writing is weak, not to mention her poor English. However from what i have seen, she has a keen eye for design and in addition is probably fluent in other languages that I’m not fluent in. Moreover, as she is currently based in Taiwan, Chairblog can now say that the sun never sets in it’s realm:-)

A warm welcome to Polley!

Update

And because Polley undoubtedly will get her own fans who will be fluent in other than the English language I’ve now brought back the auto translation plugin.

Lox Barstool by Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd for Walter Knoll

Lox Barstool

Lox Barstool

Lox Barstool
photos via Walter Knoll / find dimensions Here

PearsonLloyd Portrait
photo via Walter Knoll

The Designers: PearsonLloyd
Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd founded their award-winning design studio in London in 1997. Both have Masters. Luke Pearson studied industrial design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and furniture design at the Royal College of Art in London. Tom Lloyd studied furniture design in Nottingham and industrial design at the Royal College of Art. Today they are both tutors at the Royal College of Art in London. They also regularly lecture at international conventions such as Design Indaba South Africa and London.

The studio covers such varied spheres as furniture, product, lightning design as well as transport and public design. The studio has an international reputation and collaborates with a broad range of clients. Recent projects include a new lighting system for Westminster in the City of London with Artemide, showering enclosures for Ideal-Standard, the multi-award-winning Upper Class Suite for Virgin Atlantic and most recently the completion of their two economy classes.

How would you like your Happy Easter Egg?

Cool multi colored Egg chairs by Arne Jacobsen designed for the then named SAS Royal Hotel and now the Radisson Blu Royal Copenhagen hotel in Copenhagen which celebrates it’s 50ieth anniversary on July 1, 2010 (thanks Paul)

via Spotted by Normann Copenhagen.

.06 Easy Chair by Maarten van Severen

Regular readers know I’m a huge fan of Maarten van Severen who passed away much to early in 2005.

Oops! I’ve had to change some posts here, because I had misspelled Maarten van Severen’s name. My first mistake was that I believed that his name was Van Seventer, then I thought it was Van Sevener….all wrong. I believe the reason was the wrong connotation it has with the Dutch word Zeveren, which means so much as nag or moan. Sorry Maarten. Anyway I pinched this photo from the Vitra site which is getting better and better nowadays while they use less and less flash…