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The Ultimate Nest Chair: Giant “Bird’s” Nest for Breeding Ideas by O*GE
This human-sized and giant by bird standards nest by O*GE is a prototype of a new kind of a socializing space, a “morph of furniture and playground.” The soft and spacious product was created so that the users could get in for an informal meeting, play, think, get inspired, get creative and come up with new ideas.
With 3 sizes being available to be made on demand, the biggest version is 4.50 m in diameter and can host up to 16 people at once! Who’s in?
O*GE Creative Group was founded by an award winning architect duo Gaston Zahr and Merav Eitan who currently live in Haifa, Israel. They founded O*GE Interactive Gallery, a cross-over experience on art / architecture / design / ecological issues & social responsibility with its connected practice, O*GE Architects, in 2007.
bOne Chair by Björn Ischi and Julietta Di Filippo Roy
The Swiss architecture, interior architecture and design firm JDF Raum und Kunst has been awarded a Good Design Award, an annual award by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design for its bOne Chair.
Photos © Guy Perrenoud Biel/Bienne
b.a-ba: Monobloc Makeover by Cyrille Candas
I felt I needed two posts, Via’s Carte Blance for the Costes Chair and the connection between Joe Colombo and Vico Magistretti as an intro for this post…
Currently Via has an exposition until December 31, 2011, b.a-ba. It showcases a new way of giving the (in)famous Monobloc Plastic Chair a worthy second life. A Monobloc Rehab one could say. Emmaus is a huge French organization that annually takes in thousands and thousands chairs that cannot be resold. Among them plenty of Monoblocs. In addition it recycles tons and tons of textile unsuitable for reuse. French designer Cyrille Candas has brought the two together with paint. She has the textile ground into a short fiber called floc an mixes the floc with colorful paint. She also gave it a label (b.a-ba) and there is a new sustainable brand being born. Quite sustainable I would say. And we have an addition for our own colorful palettes of chair colors we are slowly, but gradually building into color portfolios here on the blog and via pinterest.
Monobloc Chair: Joe Colombo and Vico Magistretti
Stacking Chair Universale by Joe Colombo
Photo by Midcentury Modern ZA
Selene Chair by Vico Magistretti (Photo Designboom)
What’s the world’s most famous chair?
The anonymous, cheap, light-weight, portable, waterproof, stackable, easy to clean, plastic patio chair, manufactured from one (ca. 2 kilogram) piece of polypropylene in a single process, or the Monobloc Plastic Chair, produced in millions
In a post Designboom describes the history of the (in)famous monobloc: After Joe Colombo designed the first all plastic chair, Stacking Chair Universale, a chair with two types of add on legs to make its hight adjustable, the Selene Chair by Vico Magistretti was the first all plastic chair in one piece.
Designboom should know, as its co founder Birgit Lohmann, worked for Vico as his personal design assistant for 15 years.