Hasta La Ideas

We posted on Jörg Gätjens’ hanger chair back in 2005. (see picture B after the jump). Two years later we found another chair made along the same basic idea, this time from Pottinger Cole (picture C after the jump). At the time we suspected that PC had looked a little too much at Gätjens’ chair/nightstand before they made theirs. But, lo and behold, this weekend we found a third variation (picture A after the jump) along this idea, and it looks like the oldest by far. So maybe Jörg Gätjens too found his inspiration outside of his own studio… Today’s find is called Jakkens Hvile or Valet chair JH-540 and it was designed in the early fifties (probably 1953) by well known Danish designer Hans Wegner (1914 – 2007) for furniture maker Johannes Hansen. The Valet chair is still in production, now by PP Møbler, and it’s available new for about DKK 50,000:- (about USD 9,600:-). A vintage Valet chair will be a lot more expensive, you’ll probably have to pay somewhere around USD 10,000:- to 15,000:- to lay your hands on one. Here’s one for sale for SEK 95,000:- (about USD 13,000:-).br

A sad day, indeed. We had somehow hoped there would be a way to save Saab.br

Industrial design student Pili Wu of Taiwan has combined a traditional chair back with an anonymous plastic stool. (more…)

Marvel marked the 35th anniversary of Wolverine in April with 14 variant covers in which the hirsute mutant was depicted in the styles of artists ranging from Alphonse Mucha to Andy Warhol to an anonymous cave painter. Here, Skottie Young, who’s been on a roll with his cover work this year, interprets Wolverine in the manner of Edward Gorey.

-> From a series of the best 50 comic/graphic novel covers of the year