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b.a-ba: Monobloc Makeover by Cyrille Candas

b.a-ba-orange-monobloc by Cyrille Candas
b.a-ba-blue-monobloc by Cyrille Candas
b.a-ba-green-monobloc by Cyrille Candas

b.a-ba-red-monobloc by Cyrille Candas
b.a-ba-grey-monobloc-by-Cyrille-Candas
I felt I needed two posts, Via’s Carte Blance for the Costes Chair and the connection between Joe Colombo and Vico Magistretti as an intro for this post…

Currently Via has an exposition until December 31, 2011, b.a-ba. It showcases a new way of giving the (in)famous Monobloc Plastic Chair a worthy second life. A Monobloc Rehab one could say. Emmaus is a huge French organization that annually takes in thousands and thousands chairs that cannot be resold. Among them plenty of Monoblocs. In addition it recycles tons and tons of textile unsuitable for reuse. French designer Cyrille Candas has brought the two together with paint. She has the textile ground into a short fiber called floc an mixes the floc with colorful paint. She also gave it a label (b.a-ba) and there is a new sustainable brand being born. Quite sustainable I would say. And we have an addition for our own colorful palettes of chair colors we are slowly, but gradually building into color portfolios here on the blog and via pinterest.

Monobloc Chair: Joe Colombo and Vico Magistretti

Stacking Chair Universale by Joe Colombo
Stacking Chair Universale by Joe Colombo
Photo by Midcentury Modern ZA


Selene Chair by Vico Magistretti (Photo Designboom)

What’s the world’s most famous chair?

The anonymous, cheap, light-weight, portable, waterproof, stackable, easy to clean, plastic patio chair, manufactured from one (ca. 2 kilogram) piece of polypropylene in a single process, or the Monobloc Plastic Chair, produced in millions

In a post Designboom describes the history of the (in)famous monobloc: After Joe Colombo designed the first all plastic chair, Stacking Chair Universale, a chair with two types of add on legs to make its hight adjustable, the Selene Chair by Vico Magistretti was the first all plastic chair in one piece.

Designboom should know, as its co founder Birgit Lohmann, worked for Vico as his personal design assistant for 15 years.

Poison, a “Fishy” barstool by Svilen Gamolov

barstool by Svilen Gamolov

barstool by Svilen Gamolov

Poison, a “Fishy” barstool by Svilen Gamolov. Fish is English for the French Poison.

Via Orgone Design.

Coach on a Red Couch

Coach on a Red Couch

Coach on a Red Couch

This marks the transition from WordPress version 3.2 to WordPress version 3.3

The WordPres “Press This” tool has been fixed with the update and finally works as it should work.

In addition there is now a Tumblr importer tool added to WordPress. I’ve tried it out and it is much better than the way I had done this before: Via importing Tumbl posts into Posterous and thereafer importing it here. With the new importer you get at least a Title and the correct date of the Tumbl post you import…

This is my last Tumbl post I’ve imported here.

Although I’ve started tumblring again recently, blogging is made simpler now. Not sure whether it is necessary to go on tumblring….. stay tuned. There is one reason to do so: We’ve built up a little community over at Tumblr which at present counts 102 followers. We shouldn’t leave them out in the cold….

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on December 13, 2011 at 2:37 PM

Zig Chair by Soo Ho Haam

Zig Chair by Soo Ho Haam

Zig Chair by Korean designer Soo Ho Haam.

Via In the Pipeline