Nina Saunders "Smoothl" Puzzle Chair

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I was still pondering whether I would like to be identified with “chair porn”, because I am really tempted: “Sex Sells”!

I did a couple of “Image Googles” with terms in the neighborhood of Chair Porn. Then I came across the Wrong Distance blog that pointed me to Nina Saunders. Wrong distance had coined this chair Chair Porn, but I prefer Puzzle Chair, because I started this blog with a puzzle chair.

Final decision: I’ll not use the term “porn char” as part of a series.

Do stay tuned for more work of Nina Saunders who’s been around chairs for quite a while already!

Nina Saunders was born in Odense, Denmark in 1958 and trained at Central St Martin’s, London. Currently she works in London
More links: Sculpture UK. She’s exhibiting in the 2009 Venice Biennial as part of the Danish Pavillion. Also featured at Andrehn Schipjenko.

The Norman Foster 75th Birthday “Light” Emeco 20-06 Chair

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Received these photos from Emeco.

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The Norman Foster 75th Birthday “Light” Emeco 20-06 Chair

We made one 20-06 chair for Norman Foster’s 75th birthday hand polished. It took about 26 hours! The profiles are so slim, that the slightest wrong movement and the entire chair has to be done again. We never offer the chair in polished, just brushed anodized, but you can see its magnificent! If we had charged for it, it would have been $10,000.-

Its still in the Foster Office, I think. No one sits in it 😉

Thanks Emeco for this “Chair in the Air”!

Swallowtail Chair by Brian Fireman

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Brian Fireman, a designer and furniture craftsman with formal education in Geology and Architecture and a globetrotting past is now based in Tyron, North Carolina, US. He concentrates on wooden furniture.

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He asked me to feature this beautiful and comfy Swallowtail Chair inspired by mid 20th century Danish masters: Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl, and Sigurd Ressell, plus a little Sam Maloof thrown in.

With pleasure Brian! And thank you for pointing me to Sam Maloof who sadly passed away in 2009.

M-Chair by Strala

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The M-Chair by Swiss based Strala should have been named Mashed Up Chair imho.

Cap Chair by Dutch designer Sander van Heukelom

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And now, via a tweet of @The Drop NYC, introducing you to a Dutch graphical designer Sander van Heukelom who designed the Cap Chair. A What Chair? A Cap Chair! Yes you see it right. An aerosol cap as a chair. Nice idea.
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And here is a second, more elegant design, that of the New York FatCap Chair.
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Can you possibly sit on it? Yes you can! Actually by this photo it is even an over-sized Cap Chair.

You know what? Sander just is located around the corner…In a couple of weeks I can possibly take some photos myself at a coming exhibition.

Now I thought that TheDropNYC was registered by Sander, but it isn’t, That is registered in the name of Brian Tomlinson…. but Capchaired is registered by Sander. Again an example of a designer who is probably shooting himself in the foot SEO wise because this is such a bad example of duplicate content that probably they will be punished by Google for it.

On another tack I wonder why the young man is not using Google to search the name, there are more Cap Chairs…..