Ben Wilson has designed the Chairfix, a chair you can customize any way. The chair is cut from a flat plywood sheet, and the 2d parts are assembled into a chair. The new Chairfix Junior is now available for children at Buisjes En Beugels.
David Report blog – A take on the adirondack chair
Jeffrey Gerlach is an Industrial and Interaction Design student at Syracuse University in the USA. Together with fellow design student Andrew Stanley, they have been designing around themes of urban life, DIY, and sustainability. The images show their DPW ADK furniture.
David Report blog » A take on the adirondack chair
maarten baas at contrasts gallery in design miami / basel 2008
Monobloc Plastic chair in wood’ by Maarten Baas, 2008 – carved camphor wood with varnish
Via maarten baas at contrasts gallery in design miami / basel 2008
monobloc porcelain chairs by sam durant at art basel 2008
‘mono-block porcelain chair’ by sam durant, built by jiao zhi studio, xiamen, china (2006) image © designboom
the koyanagi gallery, tokyo, japan is showing artist sam durant’s porcelain mono-block chairs at art basel 2008.
‘sam durant’s series of sculptures replicates mass-produced plastic lawn chairs in fine chinese porcelain,
inviting the viewer to consider the aesthetic value of one of the world’s most democratic objects.
by remaking cheap garden furniture, often mass-produced in china, into one-off, handmade, high-end goods,
durant’s sculptures form an ironic comment on the condition of globalisation. they pose many questions about the
nature of mass consumption, the stereotyped saturation of the markets with cheap chinese goods, and the impact
of emergent industries on native and foreign cultures’.
text from sadie coles
website
mono-block porcelain chairs by sam durant at art basel 2008
new work by animal farm, south africa
‘silent partner’ chair sculpture’…sits at animal farm’s boardroom table representing their silent/financial backers. it just reminds us they are there and we’ll have to answer to them at some stage. it’s made from an old chair, polystyrene and silver tape’.