Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Hoffmann, Josef (1870-1956)
Sale Title MODERN DESIGN Location London, South Kensington Sale Date Mar 04, 2008 Lot Number 0189 Sale Number 5337
Creator SIDE CHAIR Lot Title JOSEF HOFFMANN
Estimate 800 – 1,200 British pounds
designed 1905 for J. & J. Kohn, painted bent and stained wood with leather upholstery 91cm. high
Capitello by Heller doesn’t look as a seat, but is one is a piece of furniture that I really like. When you look at this chair from distance you might not realize that is a chair, that’s why I like it because his roman colum shape is quite intruguing. Capitello can be used for seating or as a stand alone sculpture, indoors our outdoors ! This cult classic from 1971 adds a witty accent to any indoor and outdoor space: lounge, terrace, cafe, waiting room. You can get the Capitello chair for $980.00 from here. (via Roman Chair Sculpture – Capitello)
Sitscape by Hackenbroich.
The „Sitscape“ is a seating zone with a length of six meters. The form transforms the usual use of a couch. The design is based on specific seating positions and smooth transformations between them. Based on the preferred relaxing positions of the client we generated six basic positions and formed a perfect fit for them in the “Sitscapeâ€. Consequently, the “Sitscape†provides familiar possibilities for relaxing. The transitional areas between these positions are undetermined in their use.
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The Tivoli chair can be experienced at the SE-exhibition until November 11th 2007 in Copenhagen and in January 2008 in Silkeborg. The Chair is the result of a collaborating experiment between PP Mobler and Swedish designer Frederik Mattson. The chair is made of ash wood, one of PP Mobler’s preferred materials. For the production itself they have used compressed wood, taking it to the extreme here by shaping four glued pieces of compressed wood that with the use of form-bending are able to rotate as a closed curve around a fixed axis. The shape of the curve is thus fixated, while the size grows bigger and bigger in a geometrical progression, thus the spiral shape makes up the chair’s seat, back, and sides. The shaping of the chair demands precision craftsmanship and specific treatment of the material. From the foot of the chair, made of red painted ash wood, there are six steel wires that at the end each have a glove shaped holder that both provides a strong grip and stabilizes the flexible spiral.
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The Dharma Lounge is designed by Alberta, Canada, based design studio Palette Industries, and is an interesting approach for a chair. The use of laser cutters in furniture design is starting to make these typographic efforts relatively easy to produce. The Lounge chair is cut to display the following saying:
Stand
Forget
Breathe
Acknowledge &
Observe.
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