Tag: hotel bar restaurant or nightclub seating

Many famous chairs were specifically designed for use in a hotel, a restaurant, a bar or a nightclub. I’m just trying to connect the dots…

Biltmore Hotel Armchairs by K.E.M. Weber

KEM Weber

Biltmore Hotel Armchairs by K.E.M. Weber

Are sought after objects.

The one from the photo was sold at Sotheby’s for $ 6,250 on March 6, 2014

“Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona,” The Architectural Record, July 1929, p. 37 (showing the chair model in one of the hotel’s five-room suites)

screenshot-www sothebys com 2015-04-07 11-03-49

Earlier, in 2009 Sotheby’s tried to auction a red one to no avail. On 1stdibs there is a red one for sale.

KEM Weber Biltmore Chair White

Modernism Gallery calls the white high back a streamline chair, but that seems wrong.

KEM Weber Biltmore Settee
The Treadway Toomey auction partnership had a settee on sale in 2013 where it was sold for $5,937.50.

Beer Barrel Bar Stools

Beer Barrel Bar Stools

Beer Barrel Bar Stools

I presume they have to keep some moist or sand in the barrels to prevent them from falling over. I certainly hope it is not ment for beer “cooling”…

Share Chairs by Thomas Bernstrand

Share Chairs by Thomas Bernstrand
Share Chairs by Thomas Bernstrand
Share Chairs by Thomas Bernstrand 2

Share Chairs by Thomas Bernstrand

Thomas Bernstrand is a Swedish designer who has designed a clever terrace chair, the Share Chair.

And as Easter is nearing and yellow is the Easter color, I thought of sharing the yellow version of it with you. Happy Easter!

Via David Report.

Lavatory Seats at Modern Toilet Restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan

All seats at Modern Toilet Restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan are made of toilet bowls and all the tables are nothing else but sinks and bath tubs. You are served your food in toilet seat shaped bowls and plates in the shape of toilet seat covers… Oh, bon appetit, chair lovers!

Big thanks to Koryn Iledan for the photos.

Pré Lou Read by Philippe Starck, Eugeni Quitllet and Domeau & Pérès for the Royal Monceau Hotel

Lou Read is an exquisite handcrafted armchair designer by Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet and fabricated by Domeau&Pérès for the Royal Monceau Hotel in Paris.

Update November 30, 2011

I’ve altered the title of this post as a representative of Domeau & Pérès has informed me that the Royal Monceau Hotel chairs are not the same as the Lou Read chairs. Domeau & Pérès have been working closely together with Philippe Starck Studio to develop this chair for the Royal Monceau Hotel.

Thereafter the further development of the chair has been licensed to Driade who have coined the chair Lou Read. Interesting! Especially since one of the most influential blogs Designboom doesn’t seem to make the distinction between the two editions. Furthermore it is interesting the Driade website doesn’t seem to mention this particular chair although I have seen it in their Milan showroom in September 2011 and could only take this photo through the window:
Lou-Read-by-Philippe-Starck

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on November 30, 2011 at 1:58 PM