Defocus Chair by Esri Tarazi

Defocus Chair by Esri Tarazi

Defocus Chair by Esri Tarazi

During art basel 2008 the peter c. neumann gallery in basel held an exhibition of work by the artist thomas schriefers and the designer ezri tarazi. The armchair ‘defocus’ is assembled by attaching two sofa contours shifted from one another and combined together. The shifted framework line creates, for the purpose of ergonomic, comfortable seating angle as well, a sensation of an object seen through a lens that disperses the visual focus. the seat and the back-rest surfaces are made of parts of road banners seen on the way to Jerusalem, symbolizing in their language the secondary focus of yerushalayim, jerusalem and al-quds.’

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Chairs and Buildings: The Beginning

And this was the beginning of Chairs and Building … It’s a chair designer’s blog!

This is the beginning of archiving a years worth of work and putting it out into the world. Currently, Caleb and I are getting ready for a show at the Gestarc Gallery in Brooklyn and these chairs will also be exhibited at the Design Within Reach Store on Columbus Ave. in Manhattan. The opening is April 24th, 2008. The Gestarc opening is on May 1st,2008. More chairs and buildings tomorrow.
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The Campana brothers are the “fathers” of the found material in high design. What I find really important about their work is how they evoke a sense of place in each object. Don’t these chairs all says Brazil!!!!! Their web site is very dense and complex-

Chairs and Buildings

RK Chaise by Ronald Krueck and Mark Sexton

RK Chaise by Ronald Krueck and Mark Sexton, ca. 1987

Mirror-polished stainless steel, brass, Spinneybeck Ducale velour leather. 36 1/2 x 69 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. (92.7 x 176.2 x 65.1 cm.) Manufactured by Tesko, USA.

ESTIMATE $30,000-40,000

PROVENANCE Residence, Untitled No. 2, Chicago

LITERATURE John Morris Dixon, “Elevated Urbanity,” Progressive Architecture, December 1987, pp. 74-75 and 77; Michael Walsh, “A Sensuous Space,” Inland Architect, May/June 1988, p. 46; Joseph Giovannini, “In Chicago, Design for Life in the Sky,” The New York Times, July 25, 1988, p. 19; “Untitled No. 2,” A+U, no. 284, May 1994, pp. 112 and 115; Ronald Krueck and Mark Sexton, Krueck & Sexton: Work in Progress, New York, 1997, pp. 82, 84 and 89.

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NANNA AND JØRGEN DITZEL, Pair of Ring armchairs


Pair of Ring armchairs, ca. 1958
Teak, fabric. Each: 25 1/4 in. (64.1 cm.) high Manufactured by Kold Saværk, Denmark and distributed by George Tanier, USA. Underside impressed with GEORGE TANIER SELECTION/Made in Denmark (2).
ESTIMATE $7,000-9,000

LITERATURE Noritsugu Oda, Danish Chairs, San Francisco, 1996, p. 167

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