Light Chair by Janez Suhadolc

Light-Chair-by-Janez-Suhadolc

A reader pointed me to a page of a site in a language I couldn’t read let it be understand: www2.arnes.si/~sgaler/. Take the url to the Google Translator Page and you get some English out of it, but then search on Janez Suhadolc and you get an English page on the same site.

It became note worthy: The Chair you see here is the Light Chair by Janez Suhadolc. You can lift it with one finger, but the chair is able to bear the full weight of a person to sit on.

Janez Suhadolc appears to be a chair aficionado who not only constructs chairs, but also depicts them or combines them with pictures or posters or paintings of chairs.

The site is about a Slovenian Gallery “The Gallery of Fine Arts Slovenj Gradec”

The page describes an exhibition there of 2006 where Suhadolc exhibited chairs in a certain perspective.

JANEZ SUHADOLC: CHAIRS

‘It makes me feel good to be able to take a rejected piece of material and create a masterpiece with it, and one that is worth something. To me it seems as if a phoenix would rise out of the ashes.’

Janez Suhadolc

Janez Suhadolc, architect and graphic designer, Full Professor of freehand drawing at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, was born in 1942 in Ljubljana. He was not the only one in the Suhadolc family to have inherited the creative zeal from their father Anton Suhadolc, construction engineer and Jože Ple?nik’s co-worker. Janez’ older brother Matija Suhadolc also devoted his life to architecture, while woodcraft is present in the art of both the youngest as well as the oldest brother Anton Suhadolc, a professor of mathematics and a proud owner of an extensive art collection of wooden balls made from different kinds of wood.

Another note worthy detail is that Janez Suhadolc is generally known as the “Carpenter of the Pope” because when Pope John Paul II visited Slovenia in 1996 and in 1999, he each time created a papal chair for the occasion.

Well, now I have discovered this chair designer, I will try to show you more chairs of him in the future.

Featured as a first ever on 3 Rings

Libretto Chair

Libretto is a chair that proves that contract furniture companies for the hospitality & leisure industry like Classic Furniture Newport Shropshire can provide stylish furniture if they want to.

Burnham Sofa by Edward Burnham Tuttle for Wittmann

Burnham Sofa by Edward Burnham Tuttle

Wittmann is an Austrian furniture manufacturer with both modern and classic design in it’s portfolio. At IMM 2009 they presented this Burnham Sofa by Edward Burnham Tuttle.

Edward B. Tuttle

Edward B. Tuttle, born 1945 in Seattle, USA, is an architect and interior designer. After his studies he worked for design studios in San Francisco and Hongkong. In 1977 he founded Design Realization in Paris, where he has been based ever since. He specialises in architecture and interior design for luxury resort hotels and private homes. Edward Tuttle now resides in Paris.

And here is a chaise from the Edward series from which the Burnham series is derived:

Chaise by Edward B. Tuttle

Cantilever Chair MR 20 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on Auction

MR 20 Cantilever Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Cantilever Chair MR 20 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

P R O D U C E R

Metallgewerbe Müller

P R I C E R A N G E

5000 and more EUR

D E S C R I P T I O N

Cantilever chair MR20, 1927, Metallgewerbe Müller, Berlin. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Design 1927). Steel pipe, basketwork.

78 x 52 x 87 cm

Estimate price: 5000 euros

The auction is on Monday, November 23 2009 at 16.00 in Cologne.

R E F E R E N C E

Lot 407

via Vintage furniture marketplace – Design Radar.

WordCampNL and the Stick Stool by Gerard de Hoop


Saturday I attended the first ever Wordcamp in the Netherlands.

I couldn’t leave without taking a photo of at least one chair: The Stick Stool by Gerard de Hoop I reported about on May 23, 2007:

WordCamp NL by @happyhotelier_MG_2047