Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
As I started this blog with a puzzle chair, I’ll always be on the lookout for more of those. Here is an outdoor puzzle chail by Paris based Ego, three brothers, Jean, Yvan and Nicolas Sommereux, who design and create mainly outdoor furniture.
Via Furniture Fashion.
In an attempt to revive the Classic Scheveningen High Back Beach Chair I blogged about it here and on my significant other blog.
Despite the fact that Google apparently has ousted Chairblog from their indexes after the recent change of hosting company, the photos of the two blog posts still appear on page 1 of a Google photo search. There I discovered Wohn- & Geschäftshaus Bartelmann seit 1903 im Ostseebad Kühlungsborn They also appear as Bartelmann . Com. It appears that Bartelmann has a shop, a B&B and also is one of the oldest producers still in operation of the typical High Back Beach Chairs for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The Baltic high back beach chair is more rounded and the North Sea one more angular. If you like the models like I do, I suggest you search Google images for Strandkorf or Strandkorb, which gives results that come near what I meant.
Back to Bartelmann
Wilhelm Bartelmann opened shop as a basket maker October 7, 1870. In 1882 lady Efriede von Maltzahn had asked him to create a beach chair that could protect against too much sun and too much wind. Sun bathing was “not done” in those days in higher circles.
Wilhelm created the first beach chair from willow and cane, mockingly called by some “Upright Laundry Basket”. From there on the business started to thrive. Mind you, after he had created chairs for a Ducal Palace he was allowed to call himself Basket Maker by Appointment.
Here you can see Wilhelm, his wife and 5 children in one of his cane and willow high back beach chairs.
Found this ec-O Bench concept on Steven Ma’s hard to read (too small white font on a black background) Blog Xuberance. The bench is multi functional as it has built in sun energy and water collection to keep the plants growing.
Steven Ma is teaching architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, die Angewandte. He is the assistant professor for the Urban Strategies, Postgraduate program “Excessiveâ€. He has worked as a project designer for Xefirotarch in Los Angeles. He is currently working as a junior design architect for Coop-himmelb(L)au in Vienna.
Thanks to to my recent visit to Out door in Paris I can show you my own photo of the Club Outdoor Armchair by Prospero Rasulo for Zanotta. It seems that Prospero is one of those designers who doesn’t like a web presence. I can’t find a site of his Studio Oxidio.
In a post of my significant other blog I started a plea to revive the very snug cane High Back Beach Chair of Scheveningen. Up to the seventies there was almost no Dutch Beach without this type of chair. Northern Gemany Beaches still do frequently use another type of High Back Beach chair. It’s main features are protection against the wind and more privacy on the beach.
Just thought to enhance the reach of that plea by posting additional photo’s of the historic Dutch High Back Beach chair here.
Although I like this variation best as its curvy appearance is much more elegant.
Or am I wrong and is it already out there?