Chairvertizing with Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s Fragile Chair

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

Fragile Chair by JC de Castelbajac

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac (1949) is a French artist, couturier (fashion designer) and designer. As couturier he is often referred to as JC de Castelbajac. He has some DaDa Background and is now venturing into chairs. If I see it correctly, this see through acrylic model could be well fitted for chairvertizing if only you could slide your own poster or photo into the sides, the seating and/or the back, but I’m not sure I see it correctly. The first chair shown is clearly influenced by patterns found at the Dutch De Stijl Group (Pieter Mondrian for instance).

I found it at Behind the Curtains who found it at Gallery Tom Tomas

Yay! Even on the Dutch Bloggies Shortlist!

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To my huge surprise Chair blog even made it into the shortlist in the category Art, Culture and Entertainment blogs of the Dutch Bloggies, but Mick! won this award. And deservedly so. Nice design! Congratulations Mick!

WoW..uhm Arghhh – Chairblog in the 2nd Round of the Dutch Bloggies

Despite my earlier skepticism I’ve made it into the second round of the Dutch Bloggies Awards.

I’ve been put on the long lists in the category
Art, Culture and Entertainment blogs
together with 9 other blogs originating from The Netherlands:

    1. Art Update
    2. Beats Nothing [site disappeared]
    3. Blocter
    4. Cultuur Podium Online
    5. Eeuwig weekend
    6. Het Roze Olifantje
    7. Mick!
    8. New Work, and
    9. Viceland

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Thank you, Jury!

Tomorrow Night will be Awards Night here in The Hague as my fine city sponsors the event …we will see.

Arghhh? Why

Timing couldn’t have been worse.
Last month KPN (Dutch Telecom) decided in its wisdom to stop web hosting for another site I operate. That induced me to look for another hosting company that I used already for quite some time for my two blogs.
I needed some reshuffling of my domains and then the problems started to hit the fan big time. It meant that all had to be transferred from one server to another server of my provider.
After having transferred this blog from one server to the other server I found out after the fact that I had lost many links to the photos.
I also had messed up urls and internal links of the blog and am now working my ass off to redress that in a cumbersome manual weeding out of the errors post by post (and there are over 1150 posts now….)
Although many have been repaired, there still remain errors….
At least the 2009 posts are more or less in order now, but still many to go…
In addition my new provider’s network crashed two times big time last week…
That’s why:-)

So if you are checking this out, please give me some leeway 🙂

Another Mystery Chair – Solved

Maxima Chair by WilliamSawaya

Another Mystery Chair – Solved

One of my blogging friends who has discontinued his site (appears in 2013) asked a question who could determine this chair.

One of my readers gave the answer within a day. Simone, who is connected with Austrian Designer Thomas Feichtner (about whom I have to publish much more) pointed us to the site of Sawaya and Moroni. The chair is the Maxima Armchair of a whole series of Maxima chairs, designed by William Sawaya.

Knowing the name I also discovered a blog dedicated to Hospitality Chairs: New Hospitality Chairs [ed. discontinued since]

Thirdly: I knew I had made a photo of this design myself in another setting and found it:
Maxima Stool by William Sawaya P1050193

Here is the Maxima Stool. A photo I took in Paris recently when visiting the La Suite Shop.

Chair Blog’s new Logo – Thank You Josiah!

@Josiah-IMG_9520

Some time ago @Josiah Mackenzie asked me whether he could help me with my logo design. He volunteered some ideas and one of those I combined with the part of my old Chair Blog Logo design that featured the .03 Chair of Maarten van Severen.

Old Chair Blog Logo

Maarten van Severen .03 chair

Josiah is a real Internet Jack of all Trades: He runs the Hotel Marketing Strategies blog and some more.

Long overdue, Josiah, but here it is finally: My big official Thank You Note for your help with Chair Blog’s new logo.