From the category archives:
Yesss!!!
Finally I succeeded to import 920 old posts from June 2008 and earlier from my Posterous blog in one go here after updating to WordPress 3.0.
Now off to refine those 920 posts all titled “untitled”…. I’ll keep you posted when that will be finished…might take a couple of months. Read the whole story at the Chairblog | Tumblr page.
Oh Yes, and before I forget to mention I’m back to the 10 posts per page schedule.
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On June 3, 2010, this Seaser Chair by Lonc will be launched…in The Hague, where Lonc resides.
This is an ancient style postcard that Lonc creatively uses to promote it’s Seaser Chair. It inspired me for the first part of the title: Chairchez La Femme.
Chairchez is approximately how the French pronounce cherchez which means as much as “look for” or “search”. La Femme is French for The Lady. I mean: If the lady catches your attention, maybe the chair does as well. Lonc very creatively uses the ancient style postcard as a means of creating various persona who could identify themselves with the Seaser. The Lady is one of them. On another forum I’ll go deeper into this marketing technique and the other persona Lonc uses.
Here I use this post to introduce another category for this blog, that researches the relation between chair marketing and a beautiful lady, sometimes scantly dressed…much better than other possible names…I’ll go back into the archives and tag a couple of old posts so that the category gets a meaning.
About Lonc
Lonc or Lonc, Living Products is a new furniture design label that also will be launched on June 3, 2010 by two Dutch dutch industrial designers Rogier Waaijer and Bartel Hulst. I’m sure you will see more of them in the future.
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Exactly 3 years ago I started this blog with a Cut Out Chair.
I posted about two more famous chairs the same day:
Thonet No 18 Chair, still a classic and
Thonet No 14 Chair, a million seller.
I’d not believed I could bring you so much stuff about (designers of) seating furniture on beforehand. But I did. Thank you all readers and commenters and e-mailers and linkers to Chair Blog! A special thank you to new contributor Polley. You all keep me inspired. Hope to see you the next three years!
I’ve taken the opportunity to decrease the number of posts to 5 In order to speed up loading time.
In addition you won’t find archives anymore in the sidebar. There is now a separate and proper Archives Page
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Today I’ve folded back the categories of this blog in a little drop down menu in the sidebar.
For me a good blog is about maximum navigability and search-ability, therefore I maintain so many categories here as faithful as I can.
However I got annoyed with the lengthy scrolling down to get at the bottom of the pages. Especially pregnant if you are looking to a single post. You probably were annoyed to the same extent.
In any case this measure quickens the load time of a page or a post tremendously.
Later, when WordPress Version 3.0 and the new Thesis WordPress theme will be out and stable, I’ll review this and see if I can come up with a niftier way of presenting what the blog has to offer.
Ideally It will be something like the iconic London Tube Map.
Maybe some graphic designer out there can pick up this idea and map the history of the chair in similar way, or map the inspiration for chair design in the same way, because there are so many similarities….Just a thought.
Update
Wallpaper* presents a preview of the coming Milan Furniture Show based on a similar idea and a Google map.
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Shortly after I installed Chair Blog’s Face Book Fanpage, a young lady asked my attention by posting various interesting new chairs on the face book fan page wall. That was Polly Wong.
I asked her whether she would like to publish here on Chair Blog. Polley answered to my request: “With Pleasure” and so the Lox Barstool is her first post here on Chair Blog. I’m looking forward to a long and fruitful cooperation an am happy to have Polley on board.
About Polley
Polley is a blogger herself at Polleys Mumblings (already from 2006) and at Pawl’s Coding.
Born in New York, and currently living and working in Taiwan. She studied Computer Science and graduated at the Ming Chuan University, Taiwan, Taoyuan. She works as a technology manager in the Taiwan Branch of a firm that drives the movement of open or partially open source software license, the Creative Commons. She has her share of designing and developing quite a number of websites and I believe her Nickname is PHP olley:-)
During the day she is the tech nerd girl. Next to her professional life, she secretly studies how to obtain “the eye of an artist,” by reading hundreds of art blog articles everyday. Interior Design has always been her passion. She’s considering to apply for a position at a Graduate school in the US or Europe to study Interior Design, while working for tuition. Her Dream is, sometime in the future, to be able to design for free for the poor and elderly people in need. Her background in design or art is meager. She claims her skill in writing is weak, not to mention her poor English. However from what i have seen, she has a keen eye for design and in addition is probably fluent in other languages that I’m not fluent in. Moreover, as she is currently based in Taiwan, Chairblog can now say that the sun never sets in it’s realm:-)
A warm welcome to Polley!
Update
And because Polley undoubtedly will get her own fans who will be fluent in other than the English language I’ve now brought back the auto translation plugin.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959, USA)
Peacock chair for the Imperial Hotel,Tokyo, c,1921-1922
Oak frame with seat and back upholstered in oil cloth
Via 64 C H A I R S.
As the number of posts grow and grow, it is more and more necessary to be able to find a specific piece of information back.
The author of 64 Chairs is one of my very early chair inspirators on this blog. There are many more inspirational gems hidden in my blog. Therefor I’ve created the chair inspiration category.
This Peacock chair was especially designed for a famous hotel that has disappeared since. Your’s truly is a hotelier himself. Many more chairs have specifically been designed for use in the hospitality industry. In addition there are those in the hospitality industry who don’t care a lot about design….I believe they should be made aware there is so much more fun when you apply furniture that represents some thought given by a designer. Therefore I’m introducing also a new category which is coined Hotel Bar Restaurant or Nightclub Seating. From those I’m sure I have mentioned examples already here in the blog, even without being aware of the fact.
You’ll see both these categories grow from time to time.
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Some Background
Rather than copying and pasting other peoples finds in this blog and making it an online scrapbook only, I like to produce my own content. However, as a busy hotelier in Haagsche Suites and busy blogger at Happy Hotelier I don’t have enough time to do this as much as I would like. In addition I’m easily distracted by new finds, repairing wrong posts (finally most work is done with now) and merging my Tumblr log into this Blog. So I took a look in my 100 drafts for posts.
In September 2008 I was able to roam London Design week during 1.5 day and was able to visit Phillips the Pury’s Gallery, Tent London and 100% Design. I’ve published some posts in my category London Design Festival. I’ve many more posts in my sleeve yet.
This is also a caveat for some people who have send me material and are wondering: “Why the hell isn’t he publishing what I’ve sent him?” Have some patience with me.
Meet Rupert McKelvie
who I shortly met at 100% Design London in 2008. He was kind enough to demonstrate his extraordinary folding chair for me and my camera. And you know what? He intrigues me, because he is also a boat builder Like Matthias Pliesnig….. I have said once: “If I ever retire, I want to become a Venetian retro speedboat water taxi driver”. Yes, I keep on dreaming. Moreover there is another coincidence: I started this blog with a post about a folding/puzzle chair.
About Ruppert McKelvie
Rupert trained as a classical boat builder in Dorset for two years gaining a wealth of knowledge and discovering a true affinity with the making world. He then went on to build two 1950’s wooden Venetian speed boats currently moored in Devon. Following this, he continued his passion for design at University College Falmouth, completing a BA (hons) in 3D Design and Sustainability.
The marriage of these two disciplines is evident in his work, as elements of the maker and designer combine to produce furniture that is appealing, yet always practical.
About the In.Fold Chair
Take a flexible material and glue pieces of multiplex board against it in a clever way. Color the two sides with a different color and you can put the chair away without it taking much storage room, but also you have two chairs in one. A blue or a white one.
Clever piece of work Rupert and sorry it took me so long to publish this.
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Hi all,
After having anounced the newsletter as a weekly newsletter last week, I’ve found out that last Monday’s newsletter missed a considerable number of last week’s posts.
It appears the automated program I use indeed picks the 5 latest posts from the blog only.
Therefore I’ve enhanced the frequency of sending this automated newsletter to daily in stead of weekly.
It means that whenever 5 posts are published an e-mail lands in your in box. That is not necessarily every day, as I have an habit of sometimes publishing bursts of a couple of posts on one day and sometimes publishing no posts on other days. In this way I hope the e-mail subscribers get at least an overview of all posts…
I hope I’ve not disturbed you too much, but in case you want to unsubscribe: Here is the unsubscribe link.
In case you haven’t subscribed and would like to subscribe nevertheless, here is the subscription link.
Chairs!
Update March 17, 2010
Again I was wrong. If I set the program to a daily newsletter, you’ll get the newsletter delivered in your mail box even if I’ve posted only one post. I think that is too much…so I’ve put it back on a weekly schedule with a note in it that it only contains my last 5 posts…always obliged to learn something.
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Chair Blog’s second weekly e-mail newsletter has landed in several e-mail boxes this morning.
Two weeks ago I’ve started the weekly e-mail newsletter a bit silently by installing a widget to subscribe to the newsletter in the sidebar.
As of today there is also a link to Chair Blog’s Newsletter Archive in that widget.
If you like it you can subscribe using the widget or simply use this subscription link.
It is my intention to keep this weekly newsletter as unobtrusive as possible. It is only meant as an extra service for my busy readership only and in addition to the more common news reader subscription. The Newsletter will have no photos. If you like to have a quick overview of my postings, a newsreader subsciption will remain necessary. The e-mail newsletter will be just be a wrap up of posts from the past week.
Please note I’m still experimenting a bit. I noticed for instance that not all posts from the past week were included in the second newsletter. Maybe there is a limit to the number of posts that the program can handle. Then it might be necessary to send the newsletter more frequently (after I have posted a certain number of posts).
If the weekly newsletter would be annoying for you, you can always unsubscribe:-)
A big thank you to the early subscribers! They know who they are.
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