Orange Tolix H Stool by Xavier Pauchard
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Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
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Like explained in an earlier post, Chantal Andriot is the former CFO of Tolix who, together with some employees, bought the company and revived it.
To assist in the artistic direction, Chantal Andriot has chosen the designers Jean-François Dingjian et Eloi Chafaï alias Normal Studio. Their design questions industrial workmanship, freeing it from the past in order to valorise the workshop’s legendary know-how.
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is a Dutch (office) furniture manufacturer for over 100 years.
In the fifties they became famous with Friso Kramer‘s Revolt Chair and now Ineke Hans designed a sequel, the 380 Chair.
Estimated at Euro 6,000 – 8,000 while on auction at Venduehuis The Hague, October 10, 2012.
Update: Oops I wrongly thought this was a Tom Dixon Chair….
Engineering Temporality, a mini collection of a cabinet and a chair, by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Tuomas Markunpoika Tolvanen is a tribute to human fragility. The project evolved from Tolvanen’s personal experience with his grandmother’s declining health due to Alzheimer’s:
“Her Alzheimer’s disease is unraveling the fabric of her life, knot by knot, and vaporizing the very core of her personality and life, her memories, and turning her into a shell of a human being.”
Tolvanen used tubular steel as the main ingredient of his creations, he then cut the tubes into small rings and joined them back together to form a semi-covering layer over existing objects. Then, he burnt them:
“My pursuit was to give an object a memory, create tension and stage a play between the perfect, anonymous mass produced structural material and the imperfect of human being. The shell that is left caresses the vanished object, the memory of it, referring to the past.”
Via designboom.com