In April 2007, at a Sotheby’s Los Angeles auction this stunning miniature Fabergé Chair was sold at US $ 2,28 mio.
If you are interested in Fabergé, check out: Mieks Fabergé Eggs of fellow Dutch woman Annemieke Wintraecken.
Junkyard Clubhouse wrote:
It’s the work of Fabergé workmaster Michael Perchin, and is based on furniture designed in 1839 by Leo von Klenze for Tsar Nicholas I for the new Hermitage in St. Petersburg. It’s crafted out of gold and enamel, with the surfaces ground to resemble the grain in mahogany. The front is a removable drawer. Miniature furniture by Fabergé is very rare; other similar pieces, including a miniature table and desk, are in the collection of Queen Elisabeth II.
Photo © Studio Libeskind
As every architect with some self esteem Daniel Libeskind designed a chair. I coined this chair The Diamond Chair, but its official name is Spirit House Chair. It was especially designed for the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Libeskind designed a new extension to the museum with the name The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. I really believed they missed an ad possibility “The Diamond Chair in The Chrystal”, nést pas?
Here is the chair in The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal
Procuction is by Nienkamper… Oops they call the chair the ….. Michael Lee-Chin Crystal.
What do you think?
The Lupita
Thanks to a fellow Trend Hunter, Ben Preiss, I found this funny peeled sofa, the Lupita.
This unique seating arrangement is constructed from a single piece of red oak, cushioned with pleather-covered, high-density foam. The possibilities are great for modular combinations: side-by-side and end-to-end offer some interesting options, but I’m sure you could transform your living room into a veritable jungle gym of loopitas, limited only by your imagination (and funds, perhaps).
Inventor Spot said:
The latest concepts in on-floor seating have quite literally taken a turn. The Loope Lupita, designed by twenty-one year old Victor Aleman, reminds me of a cross between some kind of fruit peel remnant and a mini racetrack my brother used to have (a Scalextric, I believe it’s called?).
The Lupita is a design of Victor Aleman. Here is Victor’s portfolio at Coroflot
