Tag: multifunctional chair

Foldable Baby Car Seat: Tot-Pod by Aldo Barreto for Samsonite

Tot Pod by Samsonite

Tot-Pod by Aldo Barreto for Samsonite

Something to outdo Nestt Kid Car Seat? Probably yes, if not in style than in functionality.

Samsonite is a luggage brand so it’s no wonder their chair had to be multifunctional: it’s foldable and it has a carry handle, making it an ideal baby chair to travel with, and it has wheels if you want to use it as a stroller.

Looking like a clam shell when not in use, this ultra-modern, foldable baby car seat has been designed by Canadian designer Aldo Barreto for a competition for luggage company Samsonite. It has an integrated child restraint system, carrying handle and a multi-purpose storage compartment in the back. The Tot-Pod baby car seat can also be converted to a stroller.

Via busyboo.com

Puppo Chair by Mladen Milosevic & Vuk Dragovic

Puppo Chair by Mladen Milosevic & Vuk Dragovic black
Puppo Chair by Mladen Milosevic & Vuk Dragovic 2
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The Puppo Chair by Mladen Milosevic and Vuk Dragovic

The PUPPO chair is intended for interiors with a smaller surface area. Target customers are young people who wish to save on the space in their living areas. Students, for example, would be able to save a lot of space in their dorms, while still having several pieces of furniture all in one, depending on their needs. In just a couple of steps, the PUPPO chair transforms from a chair into a small table or footrest, or even a box that can be used for storage or making life easier when moving into another dorm.

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Seater Cabinet by Kiki van Eijk

The Seater Cabinet by Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk

can be used as storage, but also as a seater; inspired on historical pieces with a multiple function. This piece of furniture with a ceramic bucket and blanket symbolizes to the habit of peeling potatoes and shrimps at home and repairing fishing nets outdoors. The still life on the ceramic piece of cloth shows a women peeling potatoes with a bucket. With it’s soft colored tulip wood combined with white soft ceramic drawers topped with matte gold glaze this really shows a soft and very romantic side of the history of the Dutch Zuiderzee That currently is known as the sweet-water lake IJsselmeer.

Kiki van Eijk :: Zuiderzee Settings.

Social Media and the MVS Chaise by Maarten Van Severen

At least for me this is a good example how social media work:

  • I’m browsing the site of chair manufacturer Vitra.
  • There I find the photo that a fan, De Pauw from Florida, has send to Vitra upon a request from Vitra.
  • I recognized it to be a Van Severen chair.
  • I’m already a huge fan of Maarten Van Severen.
  • I check the site for more details about the chair (maybe I can publish about it here).
  • Find a nice photo of the chaise itself:

But then I also see this photo:

And you know what? It’s multi functional: As a recliner and as a daybed and for use indoors and outdoors!

So I’m sold. On the basis of these three photos I believe I have to have this multi-functional chaise for my terrace…

My next Work In Progress is trying to copy and paste the photo in a photo of my terrace and then find an opportunity to look at the chair in real life.

I have put it on my Vitra Wish List……even while I don’t know the price yet…

Multi Functional 23 X 11=72 Table and Chair: Brazilian Designers Revive Dutch Group De Stijl

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And then all of a sudden an e-mail from a country far far away, lands in my in-box asking whether I could feature this multi functional 23 X 11=72 Table / Chair? With pleasure!
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To my view not very exact they claim:

Exploring the functionalism of the Bauhaus time altogether with the neoplasticism by Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, the furniture 23×11=72 was developed by the designers Adriana Trentin and Bruno Oro of the Brazilian studio, design o’clock….

Agreed Bauhaus and De Stijl originated in almost the same time frame and there were cross contacts, but more precisely Mondrian (Mondiaan in Dutch) was a member of the Dutch Group De Stijl (Dutch for The Style) at the same time of his contemporary famous chair designer and architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld of whom I have featured a couple of chairs. So if I were them I would emphasize that a bit more.
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In addition it is funny to realize the Chair function resembles more or less that of the Beach Chair en vogue here at the same time frame, but that’s for another post.

See Design O’Clock

Added note: Hm strange in both designers’portfolios they call the chair the YSL chair…