Vouwwow or Wow it Folds! wins Mart Stam | Thonet award

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Joost van Noort and Maartje NuyJoost van Noort and Maartje Nuy

The first Mart Stam | Thonet award for best chair design was awarded to Dutch designers Joost van Noort and Maartje Nuy with their design for a cardboard chair with the name Vouwwow  – to pronounce as Vow Wow and which I would translate as Wow it Folds!

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Rare Dining Chair by Charles Rohlfs

Rare Dining Chair by Charles Rohlfs

According to the Weekly Wright-Up blog by the curator of the Martin House Restoration Corporation – a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright- this is a very rare Charles Rohlfs chair.

S Curved Plywood three legged Mystery Chair

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One of my readers would like some help from other reader with determining the provenance of this interesting S Curved Plywood Tripod Chair.

Browsing the web I could only come up with the following more or less similar chair designs:

Bellevue chair by Andre BlocThe Bellevue Chair by French architect painter and sculptor Andre Bloc and

sergio-fahrer-commo_eaBrasilean Sergio Faher’s Commo Chair

However both lack the characteristic rib reinforcing the back. Any ideas?