Top view of the Ribbon Stool by Asshoff & Brogård
Close view of the Ribbon Stool by Asshoff & Brogård
Display of the Ribbon Stool by Asshoff & Brogård
The Ribbon Stool by Asshoff & Brogård of Asshoff & Brogård Design Studio.
This elegant piece of art was upholstered by ribbons and inspired by haute couture, hats and accessories.
Asshoff & Brogård Design Studio is a Sweden based design studio led by Johanna Asshoff and Hanna Brogård. Find more of their functional products that has a touch of poetic and dramatic effect in them through Asshoff & Brogård Design Studio.
The Ro Ro Rocking Chair by Tomoko Azumi of T.N.A. Design Studio for Zilio Aldo & Cy
T.N.A. Design Studio is based in East London and led by Tomoko Azumi.
Tomoko on the Ro Ro Chair and the cooperation with Zilio Aldo & Cy:
It is a rocking chair made from steam bent beech. The front legs and rocking runners share the same curve, and the arm & backrest is formed from a single piece of solid timber.
Zilio Aloo & Cy is located near Udine, centre of Italian chair industry for years, has been supplying good quality wooden parts for Italian big players for more than 70 years. Since the recent shift of manufacturing to Eastern Europe and the far East, this local network of factories has been struggling to survive. I met a young successor of a factory, who is now trying to set up an own brand, then started a project to rescue their fine tradition of wood bending, which is brought to their area when it was a part of Austria.
Via T.N.A. Design Studio.
The Designers: PearsonLloyd
Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd founded their award-winning design studio in London in 1997. Both have Masters. Luke Pearson studied industrial design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and furniture design at the Royal College of Art in London. Tom Lloyd studied furniture design in Nottingham and industrial design at the Royal College of Art. Today they are both tutors at the Royal College of Art in London. They also regularly lecture at international conventions such as Design Indaba South Africa and D&AD London.
The studio covers such varied spheres as furniture, product, lightning design as well as transport and public design. The studio has an international reputation and collaborates with a broad range of clients. Recent projects include a new lighting system for Westminster in the City of London with Artemide, showering enclosures for Ideal-Standard, the multi-award-winning Upper Class Suite for Virgin Atlantic and most recently the completion of their two economy classes.
Regular readers know I’m a huge fan of Maarten van Severen who passed away much to early in 2005.
Oops! I’ve had to change some posts here, because I had misspelled Maarten van Severen’s name. My first mistake was that I believed that his name was Van Seventer, then I thought it was Van Sevener….all wrong. I believe the reason was the wrong connotation it has with the Dutch word Zeveren, which means so much as nag or moan. Sorry Maarten. Anyway I pinched this photo from the Vitra site which is getting better and better nowadays while they use less and less flash…
French designer Claudio Colucci‘s Mutant Attack chair playfully remixed original Thonet chairs, but this time the chair become shorter and fatter. Designed for Clear Gallery Tokyo, the Mutant Chair present a sense of humor which most chair lack. The chair is made of recycled materials and available in different variation
Via Design Year Book.
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).
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.
I had to show this to you as it was on exposition at the Stroom Gallery here in The Hague, my hometown, while I wasn’t aware of it…
England’s Dreaming is an antique chaise that is enveloped at one end by a miniature landscape juxtaposing scales and visual references. Lie back and think of England.
Via FAT which stands for Fashion Architecture Taste.
