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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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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1) What’s a Bear Chair?
When a Dutchman says “Bear Chair” he automatically thinks Adirondack Chair. I really don’t know why. Or, even worse, maybe it is just me. Google also comes up with the Adirondack Chair, but maybe that is because I search for Bear Chair in The Netherlands, Dutchman’s home country.
2) The Grizzly Bear as a chair
Then I saw this photo of the Grizzly Bear Chair on the Net. It inspired me to share a couple of unusual Bear Chairs here.
The Grizzly Bear Chair was presented to the then president of the USA by a famous trapper Seth Kinman. Somewhere in the 19nd century the Grizzly bear became extinct in California.
Via the Bancroft Collection.
3) Seth Kinman
Surfing a bit further I found this photo of Seth Kinman in the same or in a similar Bear Chair
4) A Baby Bear in a monobloc plastic chair
by The Retirement Chronicles: B.B. & B……Blogger Buddies and Bears!!!.
5) An antique Black Forrest Bear Armchair
Via Antiques & Interiors – Black Forest Bears.
5 A gummy Bear Chair
by A212: FURNITURE/LIGHT/ACCESSORIES : Boym Partners.
6) A Bear Bench
by Bear Chair pictures from scenery & nature photos on webshots.
7) A graphic Teddy Chair
wich actually is representing a concrete outdoors chair by Harmonious Palette, Bo Atkinson’s site.
8) Teddy Chair
And don’t forget the Teddy Chair Mido by Matti Klenell
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After – or even while – Rem D. Koolhaas had 3D scanned it and morphed it into United Nude’s Lo Res chair, Chris Bosse now has sliced up the 1967 Panton Chair as part of the Re-loved: designer stories exhibition at the Sydney Powerhouse Museum that runs from 31 July – 30 September 2010 during the Sidney Design Festival.
Bosse, director of architectural firm LAVA, is one of several designers commissioned by the Powerhouse to use a pre-loved chair to tell a story about a piece of furniture they love.
“We’ve chosen to represent this shape as slices, similar to an MRI scan in order to make visible its complex 3dimensional geometry. The chair is metaphorically and physically carved out of a sliced box, ” says Bosse.
via LAVA’s Blog.
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The wheelbarrow chair Throne Follower by Florian Borkenhagen reminded me to this Wheelbarrow Chair by Philippe Starck that I found somewhere on the internet (can’t remember where)
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Cepezed, a Dutch architecture firm, made an interpretation of the ONO Chair by Matthias Weber with a view on the charity involved. As the pictogram shows, you can use the chair at home, you can walk with the chair on your back. You can use it to transport products to sell on a market. You can sit on it during the marked. In addition Cepezed found a sponsor, a Dutch bank that likes to show off it’s involvement in the product to “look good”.
About The Charity Chair project
The slogan of Charity Chair is „Pimp up my chair“
Charity Chair is a cooperation of the German Architecture Magazine AIT and the Swiss furniture manufacturer Dietiker. They have invited European architects and interior designers to become part of the „Charity Chair“ project.
The brief was to redesign the wooden chair Ono. In 2010 the 120 (because Dietiker celebrates it’s 120ieth birthday) resulting chairs will tour several German and European cities, including London for the London Design week in September.
In November 2010 the 120 chairs will be auctioned in Berlin and the proceedings will go to a a children’s project in the South African township Langa near Cape Town. The South African outpost of the diocese of Augsburg will make sure that all money will arrive exactly where it is needed. It is the orphanage in Langa. who cares for children having lost their parents due to Aids, crime, lack of health care and terrible social conditions.
The architects and interior designers who have been working with the chair come from Scandinavia, Great Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. 100 chairs have been allocated directly to architects and interior designers, 15 are being worked on by universities and also children are involved via AIT children workshops.
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Oyes Charity Chair based on the Ono Chair by Dutch architects Hofman Dujardin. With this non chair they again give an example of the typical Dutch way of thinking outside the box. Although….why not take the table in stead of the chair in the neighborhood of the Table Mountain?
Urban Charity for Cape Town
The German magazine AIT invited 100 selected architecture and interior design offices across Europe to redesign the ‘ONO’ chair produced the Dietiker company. The newly designed chairs will be exhibited in the context of a road show in the AIT-Architektur Salons Hamburg, Munich, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Stuttgart. The auction of the chairs will talk place in autumn 2010. The revenues generated through this auction will support the Langa Township in Cape Town, South Africa.After we received the beautiful ONO chair designed by Matthias Weber we asked ourselves why would we transform a beautiful chair? Why would we start cutting, pasting, painting, sewing while the product is good the way it is? We decided to change the approach, in stead of transforming the chair we decided to transform the context. The chair stays the way it is, we only create a new surrounding stimulating the fantasy of the observer. After studying various options the final choice was to upscale the chair a 1000 times and place it in Cape Town, the final destination of the Charity project.
The chair becomes a model of a building with a height of 760m, an urban icon for Cape Town. The transformation lies within our own fantasy. The mental change due to the overwhelming scale, entirely compensates the absence of physical changement of the chair itself . While the ONO chair can be used by a maximum of two people, the OYES chair with a surface of 800.000m² can host about 50.000 people. An extremely generous chair!! Four slim feet of 25x30m will touch Cape Town in the business district and the harbor. These four new locations will be connected through identical towers with a height of 460m. Each foot will intervene in the existing urban fabric, connecting people from different areas.
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The story behind this Lo Res Chair by United Nude is quite interesting:
United Nude is a brand founded by Dutch architect and designer Rem D. Koolhaas (not the Rem Koolhaas of OMA who is Rem D.’s uncle) and British 7th generation of famous shoe makers Galahad Clark. (I’ve walked on several of their Desert Boots).
The first shoe of United Nude is the Möbius shoe which was inspired by a chair, the Barcelona Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Now United Nude has teamed up with Rapidform and formed Lo Res Project. They had used Rapidform already to design several shoes and took this one step further. They scanned an existing design, in this case the Panton Chair and morphed it into something else.
So the circle is round: The designer who initially was inspired by a chair to design a shoe was now inspired by the design process of his shoes to create a chair.
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The anonymous “Alice In Wonderland” style wicker Chair found on Craiglists
I was fooling around in Craiglists San Francisco Antique Sales today and found this exquisite, ”Alice In Wonderland” style, wicker chair. Not only is it ornately woven, what seams to be like metal also shows great details and extreme uniqueness. The reason why I call it the “Alice In Wonderland” style chair is because it reminds me of the Queen of Hearts(red queen) played by Helena Bonham Carter, with a similar large red head and relatively small body. Among my imagination, any identification of this chair will be highly appreciated!
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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.
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