Geraldine Husson has a particular view on chairs and seatings. Dress yourself in one of her dresses and you are dressed to sit.
Via Elit Alice and Yatzer
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Bretz Kautsch 2010 by Carolin Fieber
Check out these amazing retro sofas that won the Reddot Design Award in 2010 by Carolin Fieber. I’ve always loved Bretz’s boldness and modernness yet staying perfectly comfortable.
Bretz Kautsch 2010 by Carolin Fieber
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Rice Straw Designs by Gina Hsu, Nagaaki Shaw and Jenju Villagers
The Jenju Village Community in Taiwan, also known as ‘Jane’s Pearl’, is the ancestral site of the Pingpu Kamalan Tribe. The Dongshan river runs directly through the community, making it ideal for residents to preserve the area’s rice paddy-based industry, which accounts for up to 136 hectares of the area in and around the village. Following each rice harvest, a huge amount of rice straw is left behind. historically for farmers, this was an essential building and material supply. However, with our changing times, this excess supply is no longer needed for building and is not being utilized.
Taiwan is currently facing many agricultural changes, as certain types of materials and products are being removed from their areas. Jenju Village communities are promoting the symbiotic concept of peaceful coexistence with nature, encouraging us to return what we have expelled, so that nature can begin to produce and provide us with essentials once again. For the preservation of the village’s rural culture and ideas concerning the environment, Taiwanese designers Gina Hsu(Hsu Ching Ting 徐景亭) and Nagaaki Shaw(Hsiao Yung Ming 蕭永明) have developed ‘Rice Straw Design’ – a series of objects – in which the straw received from the fields is used by the community to promote the material itself, becoming a point of departure for use in arts and crafts. As part of the development and usage of this rice straw, a museum, as well as a DIY shop has been established so that visitors can experience the art and craft of working with the natural material.
Rice Straw Stool by Gina Hsu and Nagaaki Shaw
Rice or grain products have advantages and disadvantages concerning its usages as a design material. One of the advantages of rice straw, rice bran or rice itself is that it is rich in texture. however, the major disadvantage of these materials is that they do not possess enough long-term durability. Gina Hsu and Nagaaki Shaw have combined epoxy resin with the straw and rice to improve their resilience and durability so that the materials may serve a broader purpose and be transformed into items used in the home on a daily basis.
The projects will be on show at the Lanyang Museum, Taiwan until september 26th, 2010.
Via Designboom
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A couple of days ago Sander van Heukelom drew my attention by linking to the above video on Chair Blog’s FB Page.
Then Design Milk drew my attention announcing the Cap Chair by Studio DFTS ( DFTS stands for Don’t Feed The Swedes) is now available at DFTS Factory…
Now I ask you: Whose Cap Chair was the first?
Sander’s?
or DFTS Factory’s?
I asked Sander and he claims on FB:
My first prototypes of the Fat Cap Chairs are from 2007. I had my first solo show with the Fat Cap Chairs at Outland Modern Art Gallery in Amsterdam with the title “The artistry of the cap” in 2008.
DFTS claims their first model was from… 2005…..
I found Sander’s a year ago…
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Plum Stool by Alvaro Uribe
an “exploration into carbon fiber and its possible implementations into residential furniture.” It is stackable.
Via Design Milk.
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In surfing the internet for material for Chair Blog it helps me that I have a very associative mind. I was Googling pictures for “Burnt Rietveld”, because I noticed that I had no photos yet from Maarten Baas’s (in my view in)famous burned chair series which Maarten produced or maybe even created (I would avoid the term designed in this case) long before I started to blog here about chairs.
Nowadays I see several young designers piggy back on an illustrious predecessor’s name and produce a hack or an interpretation to create fame for themselves. I would say piggy back fame or media hype. I know I am a bit traditional in this sense and not so out of the box thinking as the honorable teachers of especially the Dutch Design Academy in Eindhoven tend to teach their students. On the other hand I do admit that it works. When I think burnt chair I immediately associate it with Maarten Baas. In that sense the piggy backing helps, because he dared to burn famous chairs.
Then I found the above photo of a Gerrit Rietveld‘s burnt Zig Zag Chair (another example here) by Maarten Baas at the Flickr account of….Che Eyzenbach and guess what? Che is a 2009 alumni from the Eindhoven Design Academy and designs chairs himself. His graduation project is a set of 7 beautifully designed cardboard seating elements by the name of Flow.
I know, by introducing Che in this way to you, this humble amateur chair aficionado now makes connections between Che Eyzenbach and famous predecessors and might suggest he was piggy backing. He was not! Certainly not in his designs, even not on Frank Gehry‘s Nested Cardboard Chair nor his Easy Edges Chair nor his Contour Chair, because Flow is an entirely different concept…
I may even do him injustice, because if I look into his portfolio, I have a feeling we will see his star rise to maybe equal or higher levels….
Have a look for yourself at Che’s Portfolio and let me know your view in the comments.
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In the Core77 gallery of Berlin Design Week 2010 I found this chair of Studio Hausen.
It always amazes me when designers exhibit, but don’t show their own work immediately on their own website….
or, as in this case, don’t tell you what why and how they designed what they designed..
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Champ by Tobias Fraenzel for Campeneggi
A Boxing Sofa, found on Geekologie. Rather then just sitting on it you can actively engage with it.
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I came across the website of the US Furniture Society It has an annual conference with exhibitions. It has blogs, but Showing is maintained best. Although it has no public member list, it is possible to learn something about who is who in the furniture craft in the US, also from its FaceBook Page.
Between their photos I found this beautiful Bench Siblings by Libby Schrum. It was on exhibition at the 2010 Conference at MIT. Unfortunately I haven’t discovered Libby’s own site, because I’m curious about other work she may have made.
I also noticed that I have featured some prominent members of this esteemed association here on Chair Blog already. There will be more in the future.
To give you an impression what they do, I give you here a couple of posts about the 2010 conference:
- Woodworkers Magazine: Furniture Society Day 1
- Idem: Furniture Society Day 2
- Idem: Photos from Furniture SocietyPhotos from Furniture Society
- A post by their esteemed member Vladimir Kagan: The Furniture Society’s Annual Meeting at MIT
Update
Ah, thanks to Brian Fireman‘s comment here below, I looked again and found Libby’s Website
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Beautifully executed and jolly good combining the copper and the plywood veneer.
stackable chair
material : plywood, copper, veneer
dimensions : 48 (w) x 79 (h) x 46 (d) cm
weight : 8 kg
photography by kris de waele
Via Tobias Labarque
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