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aluminum or aluminium chairs

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”!

MotoArt Grumman Albatross Float Tank Couch

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It looks like a torpedo, but it is a couch is made of a ca 1950 Grumman Albatross float tank:
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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.
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Inhabitat pointed me to MotoArt, (@MotoArt Studios on Twitter)

Shigeru Ban: Carbon Fiber Chair for Tokyo fiber 09 Sensware

Carbon Chair by Shigeru Ban

Carbon Fiber composite chair by shigeru ban image © designboom

shigeru ban conceived a light-weight chair that uses carbon fiber TENAX® for lightness and tensile strength. rather than using carbon fiber on its own, he created a tough structure by sandwiching aluminum between thin layers of carbon fiber. The use of aluminum in the combination enables successful pinpointing of the characteristics of carbon fiber.

Via Design Boom

Aluminum Lounge Chair concept by Erick Sakal

Aluminum Lounge Chair by Erick Sakal

Concept for a aluminum lounge by Erick Sakal (Mexico)

Via Modern & Contemporary Design Magazine / Another Long Chair/ Products / DESIGNSPOTTER.COM

Carbon Fibre Ch.airs by Laisr

Carbon Fibre Chair by Laisr

Laisr is a design studio based in Basel, Switzerland. They specialize in producing furniture using a very non-traditional material, carbon fibre. This super strong and ultra light material is mainly used for engineering purposes, but Laisr has applied it to three chairs in their product line. the reason they use the material is because of its super strength. While most don’t like to think of carbon fibre as a green material, Laisr believes that because its durability makes it last so long, the required energy to manufacture it is justified. They also took the design of the chairs into consideration, creating sleek and, what they believe, to be timeless form.

Via Design Boom