An oversized lampshade made of traditional Korean paper creates a private space over the Objet-O chair by designer Song Seung-Yong
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The Nordic Nomad Chair
strange chairfellows
Eclectic bench by Tel Aviv collective Junktion (pr. post here)
Love Seat by London based artist James Hopkins (pr. seen here)
Romantic Crisis bench made for a beauty salon in Athens Greece, by designer Werner Maritsas:}
1+1=1
Push & pull chair + table set by Italian designer Flavio Scalzo. Found here. Link to video.
Remember that you will die
How many times were you visually tortured by the spectacle of a white plastic patio chair?
Enough times? Many times? Innumerable times, as the emblematic patio chair has taken over the world. But do not despair! Here comes the solution that will end up the aesthetic suffering, a combination of garden furniture with a memento mori. Souviens toi que tu vas mourir (Remember that you will die), designed by French studio Pool is here to save the garden!
Souviens toi que tu vas mourir is on show as part of the Nouvelle Vague exhibition in Milan this week. Via dezeen
9 degrees to comfortable sitting
Tip Ton stands for the object’s actual characteristics: a 9 degree angle that is created by the shape of the chair’s floor skids permits the user to shift and tilt from a resting to a forward position.
Designed by London-based studio barberosgerby (Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby) for the Swiss furniture manufacturer vitra (on show at Milan design week 2011).
wireframe
Found here.
Remember that you will die
Skull chair by “Pool”, presented at the “Nouvelle vague, the new French domestic landscape” show in Milan. Found here.
dead
“Body” installation by British designer Karen Ryan: Broken chair parts are arranged to look like skeletons of dead human bodies. Found here.
ghost of a chair
The Ghost of a Chair is a sculptural free-form furniture, handmade out of a single 4mm transparent polyester sheet, by designer Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers. Found here.
the Right to Design is a fundamental human Right
frankenchair
“Copy & paste” chair by Sigurdur Gustafsson, made of oak (red, black, white and natural) with poly carbonate plates. Found here.
toy blocks
Brick Chair by Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop, inspired by James Gulliver Hancock‘s illustration, below. Found here.
Re-loved
Re-loved is a sliced up version of the 1967 Panton chair, created by Chris Bosse, director of innovative architectural firm LAVA. Found here.
take a seat
Take a Seat (literally) was Jelte Van Geest‘s graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2007: a robotic chair that follows the user into a library. Via.
x is for χάρης
Rotterdam designer Roeland Otten has designed a collection of 26 chairs, each spelling out one letter of the alphabet.
