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Milan 2011: Amsterdam designer Laurens van Wieringen presents this piled-up child’s chair at Ventura Lambrate this week.

Called stacking throne, the seat can be lowered as the child grows by removing up to four of the foam components, which can then be used as toys or reconfigured into shelving.

The exhibition continues until 17 April. See all our stories about Milan 2011 »

Here’s a tiny bit of text from Laurens van Wieringen:

‘Stacking Throne’

The Stacking Throne was a private commission and especially designed for 1 year old girl, Bodile.

She can now use it throughout her life. 4 of 5 foam parts can be taken out and used as her imagination suits her.

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Milan 2011: Japanese designers Nendo present this tubular steel chair made with techniques traditionally used for bamboo furniture in Milan this week.

Cuts in the tubes allow corners to be bent for the backrest, junctions are formed by wrapping one tube round another and the seat is woven from thin strips of the material.

Called Bamboo-steel chair, the piece was made as part of a project entitled Yii to develop Taiwan’s traditional crafts, art-directed by Droog co-founder Gijs Bakker and commissioned by the National Taiwan Craft Research Institute.

The chair will be on show at the La Triennale di Milano from 12-17 April as part of an exhibition designed by Nendo to showcase the Yii project. See all our stories about Milan 2011 »

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Photographs are by Masayuki Hayashi.

The text below is from Nendo:

New chair “bamboo-steel chair” for Yii will be exhibited at La Triennale di Milano

Nendo also designs the exhibition space

The National Taiwan Craft Research Institute is concerned with the revitalization and development of Taiwan’s traditional crafts skills and industries. We designed this chair as part of the Institute’s Yii series, a new project with art direction by Gijs Bakker, co-founder of Droog Design.

Our task was to discover sources for new designs through research into Taiwan’s traditional bamboo handicrafts and furniture. We were fascinated by bamboo-working techniques, and decided to draw our inspiration from these, rather than to work with the material itself. We applied bamboo-working techniques to tubular steel pipes, which can be easily mass-produced with standard levels of quality.

Borrowing bamboo handicraft techniques like weaving together thinly sliced sections and joining parts by wrapping them around each other allowed us to give the hard metal a sense of pliancy. The bamboo artisans visited the metal workshop regularly, and we had many conversations about the project and its capacities. The bamboo-steel chair is the fruit of these conversations: a symbol of new futures for traditional crafts through the cross-fertilization of different techniques and materials.

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Place: La Triennale di Milano
Address: Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6 Milano 20121 Italy
Open: April 12th – 17th 10:30-22:00

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Milan 2011: Dutch architects UNStudio will present this angular white plastic chair at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week.

Called New Amsterdam Chair, the design was originally created for the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion in New York by UNStudio (see our earlier story) and has now been developed for production with American German firm Wilde + Spieth.

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Photographs are by Inga Powilleit.

The information that follows is from UNStudio:

New Amsterdam Chair – for Wilde+Spieth

Originally conceived in connection to the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion in New York, the New Amsterdam Chair has since been further developed into a multi-purpose chair for use in a wide variety of different settings, both indoors and out.

It can be placed at the dining table, in offices or in conference rooms, in the garden or on cafe terraces. The design of the stackable New Amsterdam Chair is based on a continuous, single line which expands into an uninterrupted surface, forming a shell-like cast for the human body.

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“The human touch is expressed in the organisation of the chair. The New Amsterdam Chair plays with the relationship between the stationary object and the more animate human form.” Ben van Berkel

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UNStudio: Ben van Berkel,Caroline Bos with Hannes Pfau, Kirsten Hollmann and Hans-Peter Nuenning, Filippo Lodi, Martijn Prins, William de Boer

Wilde & Spieth: Thomas Gerber

Advisors: MCI, Bollinger +Grohmann

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