Emeco goes Foster

Emeco www.emeco.net All-aluminum stacking chairs, armchairs, stools, bar tables, and standard tables available Constructed with 80 percent recycled content Multiple back and seat options Designed by Foster + Partners (via On the Catwalk)

Feichtner Design: Axiome Chair

The Axiome Chair, 2006, aluminum, powder coated.

About Buchegger, Denoth and Feichter Design

The Austrian designers Bernhard Buchegger, Michael Denoth and Thomas Feichtner, based in Linz, Austria, understand “Axiome” as a counter strategy to an economically motivated concept of design. Instead of creating objects according to economic criteria, they search for a strategy apart of globalization and mass production. Their work is dominated by cultural and artistic aspects of design, by formal development as well as a break with the concept of design as a function of purpose. According to them the future lies with products having a regional and cultural reference, fabricated by way of small-scale manufacture.

Buchegger, Denoth, Feichtner declare the definition of “industrial design” as being obsolete and predict a movement back to “manufactories”.

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More of them him to follow.

Update November 17, 2009:

Somebody informed me that there was a mistake here: BD and F are an advertising agency and Thomas Feichtner has his own site

Last edited by gje on November 17, 2009 at 11:32 pm

Philippe Starck WW Stool

Philippe Starck WW Stool

In 1991 Philippe Starck designed a fantasy office environment for German film director Wim Wenders (look here for Wim Wenders’ official site). One element of this environment, the WW Stool, is now in production in small series by Vitra. The filigrain design is more a sculpture that it can be used as a stool. It may serve as support for users who prefer to stand rather than an item of furniture intended to be purely functional.

Material: varnished sand-cast aluminum.