Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Dutch designer Lucas Maassen has 3 sons, Thijme (9), Julian (7) and Maris (7). For the Christmas Holidays he has employed all three of them. They are hired to paint the furniture which is build in dad’s factory. They get paid 1 Euro for every piece of furniture they paint. All as agreed by the contract they signed. But… dad shows the labor contract on his site: it is null and void, as an under age cannot sign for himself, his legal representative should sign. It is tongue in cheek chair art.
This Brain Wave Sofa by Lucas Maassen and Dries Verbruggen is inspired by a brain scan.
Via Design Milk
While featuring the Molecular Chair by Antonio Pio Saracino, I had to think of the Nano Chair Dutch designer Lucas Maassen designed some time ago.
This chair is not visible with your naked eye, only with a SEM microscope. The Chair is build with a Focused Ion Beam and is 5 micron, and made from platinum.
Sitting Chairs by Lucas Maassen at design and the elastic mind.
Via Designboom
Sitting Chairs by Lucas Maassen is part of the Design and the Elastic Mind Exhibition at MoMA that explores the huge changes in technology, science and social mores and the design world’s ability to adapt and use these changes within new designs. Maassen’s “tableau vivant†of chairs that interact with each other and their setting stands as an example of how designers are choosing to work on groups of objects rather than stand alone pieces. The exhibition runs through May 12, but there is also a detailed on-line exhibition of a wide variety of designs as well. + moma.org
via MoCo Loco