Tag: wood

Inuit Armor Chair by Lund & Paarmann for Lopfurniture

Inuit Armor Chair by Lund & Paarmann is one of the designers’ new pieces for Lopfurniture and are extension of their current collection.

Inuit Armor Chair is a dining chair in solid walnut, painted steel and Inuit sealskin from the Phoca groenlandicus (Greenland seal). Interestingly, even with sealskin being an extraordinary material, it is one that is legal to buy and sell.

The reason why the designers chose to use Intuit skins is because the Greenland Inuit hunters have great difficulties in selling their sealskin as the EU has made a rule against importing all other sealskins than the sustainable skins from Greenland.

Gunnar Chair by Felicia Hung

Gunnar-Chair-by-Felicia-Hung

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Felicia Hung, featured on notcot.org today

(Source: http://www.notcot.org/post/47254/)

Story Time Rocking Chair by Hal Taylor

Story Time Rocking Chair by Hal Taylor

Nice to meet

Georges Lacombe on Pinterest

I have spent almost all my life in Rio de Janeiro, now I live in São Paulo. I like arts and design and try to make my life better being surrounded them.

George is an avid Chair Blog Pinner and I’m glad we can inspire him, like he inspires us.

This time he found us this Story Time Rocking Chair by Hal Taylor. As a recent Grampa I can relate very much to this chair.

Yoda Sofa Set by Kenneth Cobonpue

Yoda Sofa by Kenneth Cobonpue is a design consisting of short and long sofa section put together. Rattan vines here are woven on a frame of mild steel and the natural material tension is used. Available in bronze or natural colors for the indoor use and in brown color for the great outdoors.

How to grow a Stool Cover: Cellulose-Fibre Xylinum stool by Jannis Hülsen:

How to grow a Stool Cover

It always amazes me how many extra ordinary chair stories there are out there. The Xylinum stool by German designer Jannis Hülsen is grown, at least the cover of the stool.
Naked Xylinum stool by Jannis Hülsen
First Jannis takes a reasonably normal stool: The Naked Xylinum.
Then he applies the bacterial cellulose mixture:

Xylinum is a research project that poses the question: what could future materials and production processes be like? The title Xylinum is the name of the bacterium which produces an artificial cellulose material. This bacterium consumes sugar and builds a cellulose fiber structure around any given form. Since the process takes place in a nutrition liquid, the wet material can be dried later on, resulting in a durable and 100 % biodegradable material. The properties of this material can be adjusted by changing the genetic code of the organisms. In collaboration with the company Jenpolymers, a technique was developed to create a »skin« around a wooden stool frame, forming the coating and seating surface.

And here a photo sequence of the drying process of the bacterial cellulose which takes 2 days::

Trocknungsprozeß from jannis on Vimeo.

Via Disignboom.