Un formidable travail du designer Roeland Otten, basé à Rotterdam, qui a imaginé cette collection “ABC Chairs” déclinée sous la forme de l’alphabet. Près de 26 sièges ont été conçus de manière unique pour chaque lettre. Plus d’images et d’exemples dans la suite.
Il designer olandese Roeland Otten ha disegnato queste 26 sedie riprendendo tutte le lettere dell’alfabeto.
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British designer Thomas Heatherwick recently launched a chair shaped like a spinning top made of spun steel and copper. (more…)
Dans la continuité de l’installation Built to Wear, voici “The Table Cloth”, une œuvre composée de 268 tables et de pieds liés ensemble pour créer une vague d’acier disposée contre le mur de la cour de l’université de Californie. Plus de visuels dans la suite.
Milan 2010: Dutch designer Roel-jan Elsinga has created an angry little felt-covered chair called Fury! (more…)
It was just a question of time before someone came up with an iPad-ready chair, or we should say a “magical and revolutionary” chair. Vitra just introduced Chairless, a tool for sitting designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena. A simple and witty idea, the textile strap joined into a loop measures 85 centimeters in length and five centimeter in width and wraps around the back and knees to stabilize the body and relieve tension while seated. Presented at Salone this week, the design incorporates an iPad perfectly, allowing the device to balance on the knees for comfort and ease.
Technology meets elegance in Chairless. Aravena was inspired by a similar sitting strap commonly used by the Ayoreo Indians. The nomadic tribe living in the Gran Chaco region (border region between Paraguay and Bolivia) has employed such textile straps as a sitting aid for centuries. As a sign of gratitude to the original inventors, a portion of the proceeds from Chairless will go to the non-profit Foundation for Paraguayan Indian Communities, which directly supports the Ayoreo Indians.
While the first run of Chairless has already sold out, you can sign up for email alerts for when Vitra releases it again in June at the online store. The website also invites users to submit photos of the product in situ and become members of the Chairless community.
An exhibition of old and new projects reimagined as totally black icons, Kartell‘s “Welcome Black” exhibition at Fiera District in Milan stands out in contrast to their reputation for strong, shiny color palettes, but proves their mastery over every shade of the spectrum.
Among the new products, the Masters chair by Starck Design is an interesting exercise. The shape of the chair was created by mixing the profiles of three famous chairs from Jacobsen, Saarinen and Eames.
Starck also collaborated with Eugeni Quitllet on “The Magic Hole” (pictured above)—a seat built for the outdoors with a curious hole meant to hold newspapers or other objects.
Piero Lissoni‘s latest venture marks Kartell’s first metallic product. The Audrey is a chair with a wholly die-cast aluminum frame designed with several color and material options. The seat and back can be plastic, woven or upholstered, while the frame comes in aluminum with either a shiny, satin or colored (white or black) finish, and it’s available with or without arms.
Combining the silhouette of a 17th-century classic with modern composition, Context Furniture‘s layered William and Mary side chair takes the reinterpretation of historical lines to a new level. With legs molded after the traditional shapes of the William and Mary style, but produced with compressed ply, the clean lines update the look for today and add some conceptual interplay.
Layered sheets of Baltic birch with either maple or walnut veneer lends a striking variegated appearance, referencing the material’s origins by suggesting a tree’s rings.
Michigan-based husband-and-wife team Bryce and Kerry Moore started the design process with an outline of an object’s iconic form to capture the essence of the object.
Merging industrial with both natural and mass production, as well as hand-craftsmanship, the chair seamlessly marries Bryce’s background in sculpture and furniture design with Kerry’s focus on graphics.
The William and Mary chair ($1,078) along with Context Furniture’s entire collection sells online from DesignPublic.
Copenhagen industrial design trio KiBiSi have produced a moulded plywood chair for the Danish Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 this summer (more…)
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