Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
The Miss Less Chair is the latest creation from Philippe Starck‘s collaboration with Eugeni Quitllet to have been presented during the Salone del Mobile in Milan this year. Sleek, minimalistic, glossy, plastic. Watch the designer, who says he’s “still with Kartell because he’s still with his wife”, speak on it:
Photos via furniturestudiodesign.com
One of our FaceBook fans suggested after the previous post:
and why not try to influence some female designers to photograph their prototypes with lightly-dressed sexy men on them ?
Here is an answer. A female designer from South Korea, who graduated from the Dutch Design Academy in Eindhoven has worked it out for us all with her Mr. Chair: It simply doesn’t need a model having a six pack from itself:-). However with model it does catch eyes as well:
However, one has to see the front of the chair first before understanding this photo….
Designer : Soojin Hyun (Design Mong Studio), Sangho Park(VIN & Co.)
Photographer : Mina Hwang
Model : Misun Lee
During our research of chairs, we found that armchairs and men have a lot in common, Men have arms, skin, and muscles and comparatively, armchairs have arms, leather and cushion. Mr. Chair shows the commonalities with a dignified wit.
** we have a plan to show different colors of Mr. Chair, such as human skin has different colors.
Size : 884 x 872 x 1077mm
Material : Cowhide, Metal
via Design Mong Studio.
With a male model it certainly works better:
Via Vin and Mong‘s Facebook series from Milan 2011.
Now I’m daring the (male) Facebook fan to come up with a classy photo of himself on his own chair:-)
On display at Ventura Lambrata’s “Poetry Happens” this Hemp chair by Berlin, Germany, and Singapore based Werner Aisslinger:
A monobloc chair made of natural fibers, a project supported by the German chemical company BASF.
The Hemp Chair has been designed for a lightweight manufacturing process stemming from the car industry: the renewable raw materials hemp and kenaf are compressed with a water-based thermoset binder to form an eco-friendly, lightweight and yet strong composite.
Via Designboom
Loops, the Ultimate Knitted Chair by Eindhoven Design Academy student Sophie de Vocht who is based in Utrecht, The Netherlands, was presented by Casamania at the Salone 2011. Actually it is based on the tufting technique to create carpets.
SoftEdge by en&is was presented ad sattelite 2011. en&is is a collaboration between Enrico Bosa and Isabella Lovero. They are based in Milan.
Via en&is.