Tag: wood

Articulated Skeleton on a Thonet Bentwood Chair

Portrait of an articulated skeleton on a Thonet bentwood chair
I was just searching the Commons on Flickr and saw this chair photo of ca 1900 from the collection of the Powerhouse Museum. Couldn’t wait till Halloween to share it with you:-)

Via Portrait of an articulated skeleton on a bentwood chair.

The Powerhouse Museum, located in Sidney says:

This collection of glass plate negatives was acquired by the Museum in the 1980s and appears to have been made by a Sydney based photographic studio from around 1880 through to 1920. The images are on both whole and half plate negatives and many of the larger images are of a high quality.

Mr. Smith the Second by Anthony Hartley

This multi-colored Mr. Smith the Second chair by UK furniture designer Anthony Hartley totally looks like a piece of some twisted candy, don’t you think? It’s not really made of candy though, Mr. Smith the Second is colored beech wood with a high-gloss lacquer finish!

WIKL by Gerlinde Gruber: a Stool to Walk and Live With

WIKL is a lovely portable stool by Gerlinde Gruber, but with five and a half meters of luscious satin fabric wrapped around its dark wooden trestle and knotted in circle handles, it looks like it could be some avant-garde fashion designer’s idea of a women’s handbag. In reality, the stool is meant to be carried if needed!

In addition to its attractive looks, WIKL is stackable and is easy to clean and reclothe.

Nub by Patricia Urquiola for Andreu World America

This happened to me with the Harpah chair before, and now this happened to Jaime of Design Milk with the Nub Collection by Patricia Urquiola for Andreu World America – we discovered these gems via advertisements on the very websites we write for, respectively, oh irony!..

The NubĀ collection is the result of a sophisticated cabinet-making process, updated with great care in a contemporary manner. The project’s essential element is not so much the cylindrical bars, but rather the pleasant widening of the bars in the backrest at the height of the lumbar region, an alternating rhythm that grants recognition to the project, offering materiality and a three-dimensional quality to the chair.

Fadeout by Nendo

Fadeout by Nendo

Fadeout by Nendo

Another of Nendo‘s finest and not yet covered on the blog is the Fadeout chair with legs that appear to be fading away.

Such effect is made possible with the use of two types of material and the help of clever painting technique: while the chair’s back and seat are wooden, the legs are clear acrylic and specially painted by craftsmen so that the wood grain appears to gradually fade away until it’s gone completely.

From the designers:

Usually, our perception of furniture is strongly affected by the space around it. The fade-out chair turns this relationship on its head: we can change the look and feel of a space simply by placing the chair in it.

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