Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
I missed it, but the Peacock Chair was obviously presented at ICFF 09.
It is designed by Israel born and NYC based Dror Beshetrit of Studio Dror and produced by Italian manufacturer Capellini
Here you can see how the chair is dressed up. So simple and so beautifully done. I’m sure this icon will become a famous chair. So I’m tagging it as such.
Sunday, strolling over the The Hague open air antique fair, I noticed this dark red Barcelona Chair with ottoman.. If only Ludwig knew…
Currently it is so hot that the trees are losing their leaves due to heat stress as if it is autumn.
To me the back looks as if it is an original one, but I’m not sure.
Does the little Persian rug detonate or not? I believe it does and you?
Danish designer Anders Huus asked me to share his Living Chair 1 with my readers. With pleasure!
Preliminary observation
Anders refers to it as LC1, but I believe that is a bit unfair toward the Real LC1 from Le Corbusier.
About the Living Chair 1
It is a chair you can’t sit in! It is created by Danish industrial designer Anders Huus and is an experiment to combining furniture design with robotics. It is brought to life by a few simple means: It reacts to light, time and life around itself. The chair rotates quite slowly around its own axis in 24 hours. Simultaneously it opens itself more as light around it becomes brighter and just like a flower it closes itself when the day is at its end. When a person approaches the chair it stops rotating, unfolds itself and greets the person by wagging its entire body. So it is Anders’aim to bring life into furniture, which certainly is not a bad thought.
About Anders Huus
Born in 1976. Worked several years with marketing and product development in the furniture industry before the studies at Designskolen Kolding. Master of Arts in Industrial Design June, 2008. Established his own design studio in September 2008.
Post Alia
On a next level I would love to have an iChair that comes with my slippers and my daily paper when I tweet and hawks: “happy to cu boss!” 🙂
Anders, I believe we need a video here! Do you have it?
If you are into chairs and design like me, you will love to hear this not so new but still valid explanation by designer Philippe Starck on his collaboration with Emeco.
Emeco itself has another video, Citizen, where you can see him at work with Gregg Buchbinder, the current owner of Emeco. Note how Philippe pronounces Buchbinder 🙂
Chair designers do understand the trend for 2009 – the only one I happened to notice:-):
The future is back to knitting.
The Knitted or sewn together chair or bench is on the up. Here is another example: The Catamaran by Emiliano Godoy for Pirwi.
About The Catamaran
It is part of the knitted furniture family. The name derives from the double hull construction of catamarans, which is mimicked here. The piece is very stable, but also flexible enough to adapt to irregularities in the floor. The birch plywood pieces are sewn together using a 100% cotton rope, with no additional hardware of joints. The cushioning is made from post-industrial cotton waste, upholstered with fabrics designed by Liza Niles, made from cotton and water based puff inks.The Catamaran
About Emiliano Godoy
Emiliano Godoy (Mexico City, 1974) is an industrial designer from Pratt Institute’s graduate program, with a BA degree in industrial design from Universidad Iberoamericana and furniture design studies from the Danish Design School. Named among the 50 most important eco-champions of today by 02 magazine, Godoy runs the design firm Godoylab and is part of the design collective NEL.
He is a staff editor of the quarterly architecture and design magazine Arquine, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of the UNESCO/Felissimo Social Design Network. He has curated design exhibitions such as Transit cases: chairs from Mexico for the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs or Criteria for the A+D Gallery in Chicago, both curated with Jimena Acosta. Godoy also teaches industrial design at Centro de Diseno, Cine y Televisia in Mexico City.
Emiliano Godoy is Pirwi’s director of new product development.
About Pirwi
Pirwi is a brand of furniture for the home committed to high quality, green manufacturing and good design.
The company was founded by two industrial designers, Emiliano Godoy and Alejandro Castro, and launched an initial product line in March 2007. Today, the collection includes over 60 objects by 12 designers, and features award-winning pieces as well as designs now considered classics of contemporary Mexican design.
Since its inception, Pirwi was thought as a manufacturing platform with a high care for the environment, reducing impacts on in-house manufacturing processes as well as materials sourcing and disposal. Furthermore, several design and manufacturing strategies have been implemented in order to better control our products’ environmental impact throughout their complete life cycle. We like to collaborate with designers, suppliers and clients that share our concern for the preservation of our planet.
Pirwi is based in Mexico City.