AJ Double by MAKEMEI
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AJ Double by MAKEMEI.
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New Chairs from Seung-Yong Song: Object-A, Object-B & Object-E
New chairs by Korean artist and designer Seung-Yong Song are part furniture, part art objects, part art installations:
Object-A: “I am looking in every nook and cranny of the room to find hidden spaces. Under the table, beneath the bed, above the wardrobe… All the space in the room is completely full of odds and ends. There’s no other choice. And I start building my object like the city’s tallest building seen from the window in the room.”
Object-B: “I climb on a chair. I put books on a ladder. If things are freed from their own unique functions, we might agonize over how to use this objects.”
Object-E: “The unique name of things limit the range of product’s shape and function, but above all, the fact that there exists stereotyped function in accordance with each unique name suppresses my imagination. I am not willing to deny or destroy the identity based on the stereotype, but I only reinterpret the uses I need in my own design language.”
Via design-milk.com
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.
Rocking Chair for Two: Sway by Markus Krauss
Sway by Markus Krauss is a rocking lounge chair with a padded seat and a steel rack. Special ‘telescope’ mechanism enables it to become a regular ‘sturdy’ steady chair, and the seat’s shape is made to comfortably fit two users.
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman
This Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman designed for Knoll Associates was sold at Christie’s, but the lot details have disappeared since at Christie’s site.
Last edited by gje on November 29, 2009 at 10:22 PM