The Eyore stool is an elegant fusion of tool and furniture that takes inspiration from the very device used to help carpenters create other forms of seating. The simplistic structure is identical to trestles used by carpenters to lift and support sofa cushions and couches. Suede accents and fabric in contrast with raw wood and metal rivets give it a refined industrial aesthetic suitable everywhere from the kitchen to the work studio.
Designer: Vered Venezia
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Italian design brand Arper is to relaunch a limited edition version of a bowl-shaped chair designed by late Modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi in 1951 (+ slideshow).
The Bowl Chair features a metal frame with four legs supporting a ring into which the upholstered seat is inserted. The seat can be swivelled in the frame to allow for more upright or reclined seating positions, with loose cushions enhancing the design’s flexibility. It will be produced in black leather and a range of coloured fabrics.
Bo Bardi, who was born in Italy in 1914 but moved to Brazil in 1946, designed the chair during a period when she was living in São Paulo and working predominantly on the design of products and interiors.
She subsequently established herself as a prominent publisher, curator and architect, responsible for important projects including the São Paulo Museum of Art and the SESC Pompeia cultural centre, also in São Paulo.
Luigi and Claudio Feltrin of Arper explained that their intention in relaunching the chair is to highlight Bo Bardi’s significant legacy: “In doing this, we wish to give the Bowl Chair and Lina’s way of thinking a future. The limited edition creates a link between the past and the future.”
Original Bowl Chairs at Casa de Vidro, the house Bo Bardi designed for herself in São Paulo
Working with the Instituto Lina Bo and P.M. Bardi, which owns the copyright to the architect’s designs, Arper developed the new chair based on Bo Bardi’s sketches and a pair of original chairs from 1951 – one produced in black leather with a metal frame and the other with a transparent plastic shell and bright red cushions.
Ball Chair drawing by Lina Bo Bardi
Research suggested that the production techniques specified by Bo Bardi would have relied on artisanal methods. With guidance from the Instituto, Arper identified ways to recreate the shape and comfort of the original design using modern manufacturing methods.
Concept sketches by Lina Bo Bardi
The chair’s bowl, which was originally made from heavy hand-forged iron, is now produced in plastic to make it lighter and flexible enough to fit the foam and fabric to the frame.
Exhibition at Arper’s Milan showroom
Arper attempted to standardise the processes used to manufacture the chair so it can be reproduced accurately in a limited edition, embodying its designer’s philosophy of combining industrialised production and individualised objects with improved interaction.
Exhibition at Arper’s Milan showroom
Bo Bardi’s sketches show the chair and cushions in different colours and finishes that could be configured in myriad combinations and Arper is developing a broad palette of colours that reflects the influences of Italy and Brazil on Bo Bardi’s oeuvre.
A single edition of the new Bowl Chair featured in the exhibition Lina Bo Bardi: Together, dedicated to the designer’s life and career that was presented at the British Council in London in autumn 2012. Arper also presented the design and details of the production process at its Milan showroom during this year’s Milan Furniture Fair.
An official launch event for the Lina Bo Bardi Bowl Chair will take place in London on 29 January 2014.
Since the exhibition in London there has been a resurgence in interest in Bo Bardi’s work and British design brand Izé recently announced it had begun producing door handles she designed for her home in São Paulo.
Here’s some more information about the relaunch of the Bowl Chair:
The Bardi’s Bowl Chair manifesto
In London, 2012, the exhibition “Lina Bo Bardi: Together” imagined by the creative troika of curator Noemi Blager, filmmaker Tapio Snellman and artist Madelon Vriesendorp and sponsored by Arper celebrated not only the products but the creative practice of the Italian-born architectural free-thinker.
Lina Bo Bardi
Why did Arper enter into partnership with the Instituto Lina Bo and P.M. Bardi to recreate and produce an edition of Lina Bo Bardi’s famously iconic but never industrialized Bardi’s Bowl chair? Quite simply because we share the same values and ideals: we believe in design to create meaningful dialogue.
Foam used to upholster the chair
Designed in 1951 in Bo Bardi’s adopted home of Brazil, the Bowl Chair is an icon of Lina Bo Bardi’s adaptive style. Balancing the worlds of industrialized fabrication and the individualized object, Bo Bardi envisioned the Bowl Chair as flexible in structure while universal and essential in form. But, as with all of Bo Bardi’s designs, the ultimate emphasis remains on the human interaction with the object.
Attaching the foam
These qualities are what we aim for in every Arper collection. We appreciate the optimism and expression of everyday objects that allow us to put them to work and express our opinions and ideas at the same time.
The chair can be upholstered in leather or coloured fabric
We believe in design as an agent in conversation and conviviality, a conversation starter between form and function, a corporation and its clients or our personal reality and our ideal selves. We believe in design as an essential language to connect the past to the present and remind us what matters.
Lina believed that to standardize – to create adaptive open systems that are simple, sensual and alive – was to create potential. And we do too. And so, we introduce the Lina Bo Bardi Bowl chair.
The EM (ElectroMagnetic) table explores lesser known aspects of energies and electromagnetic interactions. In short, the table produces a localized electromagnetic field that’s capable of lighting nearby fluorescent tubes without any physical contact. More of a light source than a table, users can now interact with invisible electric energy. Check out the vid to see it in action!
The second in a series of modern fireplaces by Davide Tonizzo, Murazzi brings warmth and coziness to any modern living space. Named after a riverside area in the Italian city of Turin, the dynamic lines and inverted geometric arch pay homage to the city’s automotive heritage. With just the flip of a switch users can enjoy the comfort and glow of its virtual flame.
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This range of flat-packed furniture by Benjamin Vermeulen does away with little bags of screws, fastenings or Allen keys and simply snaps together with super-strong magnets (+ movie).
His range of MAG (Magnetic Assisted Geometry) furniture is made of sheet steel and solid wood, with magnets in the wooden parts allowing each piece to be assembled in minutes with no tools.
“Shipping furniture unassembled is more economical and more environmentally friendly, but flat-packed furniture is often made from low-grade material and its assembly is far from straightforward,” said Vermeulen.
The furniture can be assembled and disassembled many times over without losing its initial structural integrity, meaning it’s fine to take it apart when moving house, storing it or selling it on.
Replacing parts is also easy since they come off and reattach with the same ease.
The chair has a two-part frame that slots together where the leg braces cross under the seat, before a sheet-steel seat and backrest are clipped into place.
Metal pegs at the corners of the folded steel table top slot into magnetic tubes inside the tops of the table legs.
The cabinet allows the user to select components based on the configuration they require. The basic cabinet is one layer high, but more layers of different heights can be added with or without doors.
His collection was influenced by his childhood memories of a trip to Japan: “I designed this [furniture] while remembering the sober atmosphere, the simplicity of the utensils and the rustic environment of the tea ceremony.”
Three tapered round legs support the irregular-shaped seat, which comes in maple wood finished with natural oil or stained darker colours.
Paris designer Inga Sempé has added an armchair to her Ruché collection of furniture with quilted covers for French design brand Ligne Roset (+ slideshow).
Like Inga Sempé‘s earlier sofa and bed in the range, the Ruché armchair comprises a simple wooden frame with a loose padded cover draped over the top for comfort.
The piece has an asymmetric design, with one armrest the same height as the backrest and the other sitting just proud of the seat so that the user can drape their legs over the side.
“My idea was to offer different ways of sitting: normal, sideways, straight or slouchy,” Sempé told Dezeen. “As all edges are upholstered, there are no hard parts to avoid.”
“An armchair is almost as expensive as a sofa so I believe that it should be as comfortable as the main piece of the living room,” she continued. “Sometimes the armchair is more like the poor and less comfortable member of a range that includes a sofa.”
The design is available with the higher armrest positioned on the left or the right, and it’s intended to be used with an existing ottoman in the range.
The frame comes in natural or varnished beech, blue-grey or red, while the upholstery can be made up in a choice of Ligne Roset fabrics including velour, wool, thick cloth, microfibres or leather.
“I have to say that I was not behind the choice of the sofa’s colours,” she confided. “It often happens that the company does not want to involve the designer on the colours, and so one discovers it at the fair. Sometimes one could cry; sometimes one can be lucky.”
Ligne Roset will showcase the new piece at Maison & Objet trade show in Paris from 24 to 28 January 2014, where Sempé has chosen to present it in red and taupe.
“I have chosen this colour to contrast with the red structure, and to be rather happy and enlightening as it has to be presented at this dark time of the year in Europe,” she explained.
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Esquilino will warm your dwelling both literally and figuratively! The design is foremost a fireplace, but also features built-in storage and surface area that makes it an ideal coffee or console table. Its woodless flame is made visible on all sides thanks to a cantilevered table top. Finally, even small spaces can enjoy the cozy vibe of a fire!
NTN’s premier product launch, called Collection 01, focuses on material likeness and a similar construction process to tie these otherwise unrelated objects together as a series. A thoughtful balance of aluminum, fabric and natural wood define each as a singular product, but a shared design language makes them shine as a group.
Hammock Table The Hammock Table is a low coffee table defined by a suspended fabric shelf. The shelf is kept in tension by rope connecting to aluminum leg mounts. The solid table top is of bleached Irish sycamore which is blended into the round legs.
W1 Watch The front and back body parts of the W1 watch are CNC machined from solid aluminum. The integrated aluminum dial is created in the same process. The floating increments are etched directly onto the crystal. The watch is finished with a vegetable tanned leather strap. Available in both natural and black anodized aluminum.
Dowel Chair The Dowel Chair is a modern take on the classic windsor chair. Constructed from solid bleached irish sycamore the seat back consists of sixteen spindles with a removable fabric cover. On the underside the legs are blended into the seat.
G1 Glasses The character of the G1 Glasses comes as much from the materials as the shape. Formed plywood frames and temples are connected by a CNC machined aluminum armature. This armature also incorporates the custom brass hinge. Available in teak and natural aluminum with brown lens or black stained ash and black anodized aluminum with black lens.
Waterford Lamp This pendant lamp consists of a thick, clear glass shade hand blown in Waterford, Ireland. A machined aluminum hanger suspends the shade from the grey braided cable. The lamp is finished with a hand stitched filament bulb.
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