Harry Allen Design designed the Pipeline seating system of four elements that can be connected to various combinations for Dune
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Oyes Charity Chair based on the Ono Chair by Dutch architects Hofman Dujardin. With this non chair they again give an example of the typical Dutch way of thinking outside the box. Although….why not take the table in stead of the chair in the neighborhood of the Table Mountain?
Urban Charity for Cape Town
The German magazine AIT invited 100 selected architecture and interior design offices across Europe to redesign the ‘ONO’ chair produced the Dietiker company. The newly designed chairs will be exhibited in the context of a road show in the AIT-Architektur Salons Hamburg, Munich, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Stuttgart. The main auction of the chairs will talk place in spring 2010. The revenues generated through this auction will support the Langa Township in Cape Town, South Africa.After we received the beautiful ONO chair designed by Matthias Weber we asked ourselves why would we transform a beautiful chair? Why would we start cutting, pasting, painting, sewing while the product is good the way it is? We decided to change the approach, in stead of transforming the chair we decided to transform the context. The chair stays the way it is, we only create a new surrounding stimulating the fantasy of the observer. After studying various options the final choice was to upscale the chair a 1000 times and place it in Cape Town, the final destination of the Charity project.
The chair becomes a model of a building with a height of 760m, an urban icon for Cape Town. The transformation lies within our own fantasy. The mental change due to the overwhelming scale, entirely compensates the absence of physical changement of the chair itself . While the ONO chair can be used by a maximum of two people, the OYES chair with a surface of 800.000m² can host about 50.000 people. An extremely generous chair!! Four slim feet of 25x30m will touch Cape Town in the business district and the harbor. These four new locations will be connected through identical towers with a height of 460m. Each foot will intervene in the existing urban fabric, connecting people from different areas.
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Leather have always been one of my favorite materials. When I came across Tortie Hoare‘s final major project on Dezeen while studying in Bucks New University in the UK, it’s structural yet sophisticate form caught my eye.
Leather Chair by Tortie Hoare
Images by Paul Wilkinson
Tortie experimented several different ways to structure the leather the way she wanted and came up with a boiled leather technique which achieved her goal. This project also won the UK graduate exhibition New Designers Part 2 awards. You’ll find more of her sharings through Dezeen, where they featured her thoughts while exploring her path towards crafting more beautiful leather furnitures.
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Ono Chair by Matthias Weber for Swiss chair manufacturer Dietiker.
Plain and nevertheless independent: the solid wood chair Ono has more to offer than dynamic, timeless design. Thanks to the low weight and its stackability – which one does not see at first glance – it is suitable for object seating as well as for the private realm. The Ono is even more unmistakable but just as practical as an armrest chair. Both versions are optionally available in beech, oak and American walnut as well as optionally with seat cushions for even more comfort.
About Matthias Weber
Matthias Weber, born 1973 in Zurich, completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic before he studied industrial design at the Zurich University of Arts (ZHdK). After his education he worked as an industrial designer with Haeberli Marchand Product Development (Zurich), with Gebrüder Thonet GmbH (Frankenberg) and with Christophe Marchand Product Development (Zurich). In 2004, he switched to the agency from Hannes Wettstein in order to take care of the furniture design projects there. Together with the star designer he developed furniture for national and international clients such as Accademia, Fiam Italia and Eric Jorgensen. Many of the team’s works have been awarded a price. Among other things, Weber created the Ono solid wood chair for Dietiker. Since Wettstein’s death in July 2008 Matthias Weber heads the furniture and product department at Studio Hannes Wettstein as chief of design.
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Retrovirus Sofa by proliferate designer Onur Müştak Çobanlı of OMC Design Studio in Como, Italy.
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You can find this sustainable driftwood Chair at Drivved.no (found it via Wallpaper*s FB)
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Disco Chair by Kiwi and Pom.
Commissioned by Wallpaper* Magazine, the Disco Chair is a bespoke illuminated furniture concept. Constructed from 200 linear metres of Electroluminescent wire, the chair transforms into a neon rainbow when powered. A pulse setting enables the chair to flash on and off creating an instant disco installation.
About Kiwi and Pom
A London based design consultancy who have been creating human experiences since 2008. From products to furniture and interior architecture, we believe that the value of design is the human experience it provokes.
Design has the power to transform cold materials into emotional meaning, but to do so successfully requires more than just elegant forms. It also needs inspired strategic thinking, a holistic approach to execution and a fanatical attention to detail.
That’s why we use whatever technique or process is correct for the task at hand, why we will always challenge our clients’ thinking if we think they are missing a trick, and why we think of ourselves as ‘creators’ rather than builders.
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Isn’t it romantic? Chair installation by Vedovamazzei SOLD AT £10,000
2004-2006
Chair, Crystal. 50 × 81 × 42 cm (19 3/4 × 31 7/8 × 16 1/2 in).
ESTIMATE £8,000-12,000 ♠
SOLD AT £10,000
PROVENANCE Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Naples
EXHIBITED VOLTA09, Basel 2009
via Phillips de Pury & Company.
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Photos: Maria Sahlander, Model Hanna Stelling
RE: cover (a Chair) or Dress a chair well by Fredrik Farg
RE:cover – costume making dresses for old chairs.
The project looks to the beauty of those shapes that not always have to change. Fredrik is inspired by classic menswear, such as suits and dinner jackets that never go out of style. -This is a lasting fashion; he says and refers to today's trend wear which is often discarded before being worn out.
I found this on Fredrik’s Picasa photo set Stockholm Furniture Fair 2009.
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I’m glad I came across another Chair Blogger, Chair Chick. Unfortunately she doesn’t publish very frequently, but she has an eye for extraordinary chairs. Here she describes an encounter with Harush Shlomo who was born in Jerusalem in 1961 and lives and works in New York city and Milan.
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