Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Dutch furniture brand Artifort will present the Shark Chair by Dutch designer René Holten at Il Salone del Mobile 2011 in Milan.
René Holten’s (1961) first design for Artifort was the DoDo in 1997. This brings me to a new item, because various furniture brands seem to feature a Dodo Chair.
Artifort started 120 years ago as an upholstery company in Maastricht. Designers such as Kho Liang Ie, Pierre Paulin and Geoffrey Harcourt were instrumental in today’s success of Artifort.
The Jill chair is another product to be introduced in Milan tomorrow and is the first collaborative work by Vitra and Zürich based Alfredo Häberli. Inspired by the early days of plywood moulding, the designer explores the modern boundaries of this technique and creates a flexible shell where, in a patented process, Jill’s veneers are curved until they meet in the middle of the seat. The bases for the chair are made of tubular steel, wire, aluminium and wood, and their coloring is matched to complement the optional leather and fabric covers.
Matreshka Light Chair by Bulgaria based Georgi Slokoski is a modern take on a traditional Russian doll. Its fibroglass curvatiosness comes in two colors (black and white), the base promises endless rotation both ways and the built-in LED RGB lighting allows for a unique experience of sitting inside a lamp. The chair is to be presented tomorrow in Milan during the design week.
From the designer:
The chair invites and embraces you, it enhances and dominates your emotions. Touching the chair is a discovery – you subside into a harmony of immaculately chosen materials, skillfully amplified by comfort and functionality. You sink into your own harmonic ambience of colour and a sense of softness. Matreshka Light Chair is an interior solution which inspires and seduces you, turning into an essential accent in your personal space.
Italian fashion house Trussardi celebrates its 100th birthday. To mark this occasion it will relaunch its Trussardi Design brand with a special collection of products called the ‘1oo Collection – Trussardi My Design’, inspired by its extensive archives. The designer is British, but Hong Kong based, Michael Young.
Designer People – Michael Young from Michael Young Ltd on Vimeo.
Via Wallpaper*
A collection of oak furniture by Lausanne-based studio Big-Game will be presented by Japanese design brand Karimoku New Standard in Milan next week, from 12-17 of April. The collection, called Castor, includes a stool and a bench (there’s also a shelf, but here at Chair Blog this interest us just a tiny bit less) – all made from small sections of Japanese oak. The stool is stackable and the bench makes reference to traditional Japanese furniture typology.
Via dezeen.com