Bulgarian sculptor Konstantin Achkov (1973, Sofia) has been experimenting with tension in sculptures and now has brought the same ideas into chair design. Here his Tensegrity Chair. As a yachtsman I can appreciate the principles used. The next step, I presume, is the use of carbon composite pipes with kevlar ropes in stead of aluminum pipes with stainless steel cables. Konstantin claims the construction allows for automatic adjustment of the chair to the body or to unevennesses of the floor. The same principles that were applied in the Roorkhee Chair. I like it! I’ve uploaded the original size photos Konstantin has sent me to click through to in order to get more detail.
Tag: aluminum
aluminum or aluminium chairs
Royalton NYC Bar Stools by Phillippe Starck up for Auction
Royalton NYC Bar Stools by Phillippe Starck. Sold at Wright for $4,375
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Sensuous Modular Bench Liquirizia by Aziz Sariyer for AltreForme
Chair hunting on the world wide web is a real adventure. Recently I opened a Twitter Account @ChairBlog, off course. Yes please do follow me!
I saw a tweet from @Arctictrend (lol the name gives me the shivers) that pointed to this post: Eco Sustainable featuring this sensuous aluminum modular Bench Liquirizia.
But it was the Dutch More or Less blog that catched it earlier…and pointed me to the Italian, Calolziocorte based, manufacturer: Altreforme, which is a nice site for a blogger because it is a non Flash site that almost looks like a flash site. Kudos for the designer of the site!
Liquirizia is a multi-unit
chairbench [I would say].
Modular or endless depending on your greediness, as the most appetizing candy you would never give up savouring.
liquirizia will talk about you and the lines of your heart, following routes each time different, each time…About Aziz Sariyer
Born in Istanbul in 1950, Aziz Sariyer is the founder of Derin design studio. He designs objects, furniture, spaces and spends time working on technical aspects of furniture manufacturing process. Sariyer has taken part in a variety of International exhibitions with his designs for different projects. Sariyer’s designs are part of the most important manufacturers’ collections.
The Norman Foster 75th Birthday “Light” Emeco 20-06 Chair
Received these photos from Emeco.
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”!
MotoArt Grumman Albatross Float Tank Couch
It looks like a torpedo, but it is a couch is made of a ca 1950 Grumman Albatross float tank:
Donovan Fell III, here together with another Don from the MotoArt team, founded MotoArt as a hobby, now a 6 member team, to give airplane parts a new life.
Inhabitat pointed me to MotoArt, (@MotoArt Studios on Twitter)