Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Amsterdam based Laurens van Wieringen has this pretty piled-up kid’s chair to present in Milan this week.
Material: Foam, soft coating, lacquered wood & steel
Size: 92,5 x 74,5 x 85,5The Stacking Throne was a private commission and especially designed for 1 year old girl, Bodile. She can now use it throughout her life. 4 of 5 foam parts can be taken out and used as her imagination suits her. Some girls just get lucky!
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.
Designer Karim Rashid has created this rotational-moulded chair for Italian furniture brand B-Line. Called Woopy, the hollow plastic chair is moulded in one piece, and can be used indoors and outdoors. An accompanying footstool, called Snoop, has two pockets reaching into its legs and can be stacked to form a bookshelf.
As usual, lots of color and eye-pleasing shapes! What’s interesting is that Karim’s website calls Snoop a table, but I guess if it’s good enough to be stacked and thus turned into a shelf, one might as well use it as a stool, as Dezeen suggests. Woopy, on the other hand, exists both as a chair and as a tall stool.
Via dezeen.com
Casamania’s Josh Owen on the inspiration and idea behind his SOS stool. The video explains and shows how to use the stool’s “hook” to its best advantage and also reveals one little design “secret”.
Received an e-mail from a Chair Blog fan:
Your blog is wonderful.
Thank you for doing such a thorough job and for sharing your information and observations with the rest of us.I too am a chair fan and I have an original vintage Hans Wegner Valet chair that is unusable because the hinges were not on it when I purchased it. I wonder if in your journeys across the web you may have found a source for rare chair parts or another Hans Wegner collector that has valet chair hinges. From one chair lover to another I greatly appreciate any input you may be able to offer.
It would be great to actually be able to sit on this special piece.
As the hinges photo shows they are really special. Decided to post the question here to help our fan. Glad to oblige. Anybody an idea?
Found the Valet Chair photo in an excellent post about Hans Wegner furniture at the Chinese language blog I Design and the hinge photo at Live Auctioneers