Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
While we’re at the subject of gold, let me also share this little beauty – a mini version of a timeless classic, Panton chair, in, you guessed it, gold! Limited to only 500 pieces, the chair was made to celebrate the opening of the Panton Chair exhibition at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2009. The chair comes in a 1/6th scale to the original.
Via highsnobiety.com
Upcoming: A colorful Verner Panton Conversation Chair no. S 420
‘Conversation’ chair, model series no. S 420, c. 1967
Fabric, tubular chrome-plated metal. 62 x 145 x 76 cm. (24 3/8 x 57 1/8 x 29 7/8 in.) Manufactured by Gebrüder Thonet GmbH, Germany and fabric woven by Unika Vaev, Denmark.
ESTIMATE £3,000-5,000
Happy Valentine’s day!
Off course the Heart Cone Chair by Verner Panton is also an option for Valentine’s day…
Via EDC London
Stripe Chair by Joachim King, a Glasgow, Scotland, based furniture designer/builder.
It seems a reinterpretation in wood of the the classic Panton Chair.
via Contemporist.
Taking on a village church in Eastern Bohemia was something of a departure for the ultra modernist design studio Qubus.
Designers Jakub Berdych and Maxim Velcovsky eschewed the glossy finishes of previous projects, choosing to embrace the original stone of St Bartholomew’s church in Chodovice.
Pews have been replaced by rows of Verner Panton chairs, each with a newly-carved cross in the back. The alterations cost the artists their warranties on the Vitra furniture but it was a small price to pay. The chairs sit in militaristic formation on Persian rugs, somewhat secularizing the building’s purpose.
Still, the new interior manages to inspire awe and exude artistic merit in equal measure- in spite of it now looking a tad more luxury hotel than place of worship.
Designer: Qubus Design Studio [ Via: SwissMiss ]
via Yanko Design.
And: Yes it appears I featured it once already, but then I forgot to add the Panton attribution.