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Last edited December 16, 2009
- About who?
Let’s talk about you first! Before I give you some background info, I would like to ask you to comment to this page with your own background information. Please feel free to promote yourself here and even to rant about what I write or wrote. I’m always curious who is reading what I’m curating here. - Why a Blog solely devoted to Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers, or more broadly about seating furniture?
This is a hobby solely. I have no commercial intentions with this Blog, although I did add Google adsense and might add other ads to cover some of the expenses that come with blogging.
Please note: I don’t manufacture seating furniture. I don’t sell seating furniture. I don’t buy seating furniture! - A little bit of background of Chair Blog:Chairs are important as the population of the western world spends at least 1/3 of its life time in a chair. It will be mainly a Photo blog.It started with my fascination for the Thonet story. Round 1900 they had a real multinational empire of chair factories and sales outlets.I have owned a couple of Thonet chairs myself.
Together with my wife I own and operate a small but very luxury design hotel in The Hague, The Netherlands (Haagsche Suites), hence my focus on architecture, design, interior design and, in addition, yacht design. A couple of years ago I was researching chairs on the Internet because we needed to buy some new chairs for the hotel. I found out there was no easy way in.
Thereupon I created a couple of Dutch Language link pages about chairs, chair design, chair designers and chair manufacturers:
- Stoelen Startpagina, “stoel” is Dutch for chair,
- Stoelen-Design Startpagina
- Stoelen-Fabrikanten Startpagina (a “fabrikant” is a manufacturer).
A Photoblog is a nice addition to mere text links pages.
Now I am heading off to show you some more.
- About the author:
You can find a lot more about the author on his significant other Blog: Happy Hotelier. - Copyright
This blog is about sharing information. I surf the Internet and share what I find with my readers. I may use photo’s or pictures that belong to other people or organizations. I always try to link back to the source. If for one or another reason you feel I have infringed on your rights, please do contact me. My usual reaction is to delete the respective material from the blog following a reasonable request. - More about Chair Blog
About the development of the blog you can read more on the Chair Blog | Tumblr page. - Contact
Please use the contact page if you want to contact me.
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Hello fellow chair lovers,
I restore chairs of all types. The one thing they share in common is that they’re all handwoven, or have a woven element incorporated in the design.
For photos, visit: http://www.eoyseat.com
(“eoyseat” stands for: Edge Of Your Seat.)
~ Love this educational & entertaining blog!
Cheers everybody!
Looks like an interesting blog – one that I will spend much time on in due course. Would like to have found this when I was studying furniture design, but all is not lost! I’m currently rediscovering my photographic muse, but still have an interest in good furrniture.
Hi, smart and interesting blog. Never knew that you can write this much about chairs.
I hope you wouldn’t mind my comment coz it is not about chairs.
I found your blog when I was searching the net for high quality european furniture. I need to furnish my new house which will be ready in a few months.
I should mention here that I live in Kuwait where there are very limited options for high quality modern/contemporary furniture. And what’s available is ridiculously over-priced. It would be much cheaper for me to buy the furniture directly from the manufacturer and ship it to Kuwait. Therefore, I’m thinking of furnishing the house by one manufacturer to take advantage of a good discount and at the same time make my life easier. So I’m looking for a manufacturer that has complete solution for the house. I mean a company that has livingrooms, diningrooms, bedrooms, studyrooms, etc. Such as Hulsta which I really like very much but they have a dealer in Kuwait so I’m worried if I approach the manufacturer in Germany, they will refer me back to the dealer.
I’ve been searching for a long time but with no luck! Do you know other companies like Hulsta? I would really appreciate it if you could provide me with some names to check them out.
Sorry for writing such a long comment, and I look forward to hearing from you.
P.S.: my email is dec13th@hotmail.com if you don’t want to reply through your chair blog.
I found your blog today while searching for unusal chairs. You certainly have information on quite a few. I wonder if I can send a picture of the one I recently came upon. Perhaps some of your readers will recognize it. If acceptable, please provide me with an email address so that I can send a picture. Thanks.
@ 5billj2001
See my e-mail address in the post and replace the [at sign] by @.
Added December 16, 2009: There is a contact page now!
@ Anwar
I have been breaking my head thinking what I could advise you else than contacting an interior decorator who undoubtedly will earn back his fee if you make the correct fee deal with him by passing to you the rebates he can offer you through going directly to the manufacturers….
I have come to possess a chair that I think was made by an artist named Rico Macho. The chair base is made out of fiberglass and is shaped and dimpled like a golf ball. There is a space for the actual seat of the chair to be placed into the golf ball frame. The chair is red vinyl. The only information I could find (on the chair itself) is the signature (of the presumed artist – Rico Macho) and the date of August 1, 1989. There is another, smaller piece of paper noting “booth 4″. I wanted to be able to post it so that maybe someone might recognize the chair somehow, but cannot find a place on this site to post pics. Does anyone have any idea about this chair or artist? If you give me your email address, I will send pics. Thank you – Laura
Laura: You can email me photos at gje[at]hetnet.nl (replace [at] with @) and I will post the request.
Hi all! What a great blog this is! Thought I would share my little piece of the blogsphere with you all. I create themed chairs out of papier mache and I also re-upholster old hard rubbish chairs with my hand made felted fabric. (among many other things!) Come and have a look at my little world of colour….
visit me at: http://www.adelle.com.au
@ Adelle
Saved your comment from my askimet pile :-)
Thanks for the great collection of amazing chairs. I am a new designer and passionate about chairs in particular. I wanted to add one of my own, my very first piece – called Chez Banc d’Amore. Check it out at: http://www.chezbanc.com
It has just been selected for inclusion at the ‘youngdesignersfair’ at Interieur 08 in Kortrijk, Belgium. I am extremely honoured to be the first Australian designer invited to attend the youngdesignersfair.
I look forward to watching this space in future.
Best regards
Russell Grigg
Check out some of my chairs on my site!
You have a really nice blog here, and I find your passion for chairs absolutely fascinating. I am helping b-uncut doing some social media work for them. One of our artists makes chair-based sculptures… would love to discuss coverage opportunities on your blog!
PS: I also tweeted you!
PS2: On a different note, I’d love to talk to you about doing an interview for my personal blog… will tweet you about it ;)
Hi Mr GJE
would it be possible to send you the picture of one of my chairs to post it on your blog?
Your blog is fantastic and I often retweet your posts.
Best regards