Ploum Sofa by The Bourroullecs found at the IMM Cologne 2011 booth of Ligne Roset.
Month: March 2011
Jellyfish Ripple Stool by Znug Design
Blog Esprit Design pointed me to this Jellyfish Ripple Stool by Znug Design: Wiggle and Ripple!
Hinges for a Hans Wegner Valet Chair – Anybody?
Received an e-mail from a Chair Blog fan:
Your blog is wonderful.
Thank you for doing such a thorough job and for sharing your information and observations with the rest of us.I too am a chair fan and I have an original vintage Hans Wegner Valet chair that is unusable because the hinges were not on it when I purchased it. I wonder if in your journeys across the web you may have found a source for rare chair parts or another Hans Wegner collector that has valet chair hinges. From one chair lover to another I greatly appreciate any input you may be able to offer.
It would be great to actually be able to sit on this special piece.
As the hinges photo shows they are really special. Decided to post the question here to help our fan. Glad to oblige. Anybody an idea?
Found the Valet Chair photo in an excellent post about Hans Wegner furniture at the Chinese language blog I Design and the hinge photo at Live Auctioneers
The Shrunken Cray-1 by Daryl Brach
Remember my last year’s April Fool’s Day prank?
I posted a photo of one of the original iconic Cray-1 computers. For me it was like a mid century sofa. I took the photo in the Paris Computer Museum at the Big Arch. In that museum they also have a collection of sandows chairs by Rene Herbst.
It was Eloise Moorehead who busted me immediately. Coincidentally Eloise had posted a photo of another Cray-1 not long before. She also had mistaken it for a sofa, maybe an ideal sofa for in a Hotel lobby. She imagined even a cosy telephone boot inside:-)
Recently I discovered case modder Daryl Brach had taken the Cray-1 as an example to rebuild on a scale of 1/3 with two PC’s in it for use at home. Probably this one has more computing power than the original Cary-1. It made me think back to my first encounter in Paris.
Via Honey, Daryl Brach shrunk the Cray-1 supercomputer and The Register
Popular on Chair Blog in February 2011
So sorry. Again pressed the publish button too early erroneously…
Like Popular in January 2011, I like to brag about Chair Blog’s successes in February 2011. Despite two major outages on February 26 and February 28, 2011, we succeeded to attract over 100,000 page views with over 43,000 visitors in February, 2011.
Most attractive were the following 10 posts:
- Bram Stoker’s Chair series by Sam Taylor-Wood of August 2008 (2143 views).
- Luxury Airplane seats of February 2008 (968 Views).
- Thonet no 18 of April 2007 (425 Views)
- Cave Book Case Seating by Sakura Adachi of February 2008 (424 views).
- Sensory Deprivation Skull Chair by Atelier van Lieshout of March 2008 (421 views).
- Rietveld by Cassina, by Rietveld and by Jenner of May 2007 (399 views).
- Philippe Starck Toy Chair 1999 of June, 2007 ( 240 Views)
- Ready To Wear Chair High Heels? of October, 2009 (231 Views).
- Marc Newson Embryo Chair for sale at Christie’s of September, 2007 (231 views).
- Reading Chair by Remi van Oers of February 2011 (190 views) which is the best newcomber post of February 2011….