Art Keukenhof is a lesser known part of the famous Dutch Spring Flower Show Keukenhof. I visited it last Friday and found this Mr Van Der Meer Kangaroo Chair sculpture. I even offers a comfy seat. I had to wait my turn in a queue before I could take my own photo of it. Details of the sculptor were not available, but the Keukenhof site advises to mail them.

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Meet Claudie Bastide, a French Chair Sculptor. She has nothing with design and doesn’t care whether a chair she sculpted sits well. She uses the chair as a metaphor to tell us something…. and she has been bugging me to feature her for months so she has patience (which is the same word with the same meaning in French as in English).

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Throne Follower by Florian Borkenhagen. Another wheelbarrow chair.
Currently exhibited at Gallery Amman in Cologne, Germany.

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Via Ashley Simko‘s Tumblr blog: – Apt discovery during Vancouver 2010 – Tiny little Chairs: A series of mid century design chairs as pendants in gold, silver or bronze for sale at Montreal based Bruxe Design. The photo shows the (Barcelona) Pavilion Chair.

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Enzo Iorio, one of the participants, asked me to have a look at Ri-Parliamone.it

Enzo came together with a group of creative friends on occasion of their participation in the Cartasia 2010 Biennial of Contemporary Art which will be held in Lucca, Italia from June 19 – July 18, 2010.

It gave them the opportunity to rethink the use of old books that are about to end in a trash bin. They decided to give the old books a second life as chairs. The installation by Ri-Parliamone was showcased during a preview of the 2010 Biennial in Lucca from September 5 – October 3, 2009.

The books are soaked in a solution of water and vinyl glue to give them the necessary rigidity and resistance. Once dry they are given a coat of water-based paint. Subsequently they are assembled on a pallet, glued together and connected internally by a small metallic structure which guarantees its stability.
Being exposed to all weather conditions for a month, a transparent coat of water resistant paint is given for further safety.

apart from reading books, we can sit comfortably on a “mountain” of books

Thank you, Enzio! Great Idea!

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