Dutch Atelier Van Lieshout has their Sensory Deprivation Skull on display at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, a new Gallery in Mayfair, London, designated to furniture.
A chair you can sit in with the doors closed and without any disturbance from the outside world.
Even with a cosy sheepskin!
Joep van Lieshout, founder of Atelier Van Lieshout, would maintain it is an object of art, not a chair.
I would not agree and would like to quote the Italian critic and curator Angelo Capasso at Design NL who recently visited The Netherlands in preparation of a Dutch art and fashion exhibition in Rome:
A week of meetings in the Netherlands gave me the opportunity to gain an insight into the art and design scene there. Art and design are the most fruitful couple in the visual world. They give a different interpretation of the visual: as I said in my essay Design and Ready Made, a very simple difference between the two, is that ‘in art, objects pretend to be useless, in design, objects pretend to be useful. The word pretend is very important, in this context, because it underlines a possibility (a wish, a project) that is not necessary fulfilled. Today objects coming from the two different ideas (or projects) seem to be moulded in the same oven but subsequently served to a different table and therefore with a different destiny. In the Netherlands, as I have seen, the two share an interesting debate that makes it difficult to show reasons for their different identity: if generally it is art’s task is to pose questions while design’s goal is that of giving solutions, Dutch ideas show that a switching of these positions is possible. Therefore my short journey through the Netherlands was really a journey through the possibility of finding one main element of distinction between the two, or the elements that combines the two on a different face on the same coin.
About AVL – Atelier Van Lieshout
Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL), located in a warehouse in the Rotterdam harbour, was founded by artist Joep van Lieshout (1963) in 1995. It is a multidisciplinary art practice encompassing installation, design, furniture and architecture. The name Atelier Van Lieshout emphasises the fact that the works of art do not stem solely from the creative brain of Joep van Lieshout, but are produced by a creative team of artists, designers and architects.
The works of art are practical, uncomplicated and substantial. The work varies from sculptures and furniture, bathrooms and mobile home units to large installations and complete architectural refurbishments. One of the many applications and techniques used by AVL are the large polyester constructions in striking, bright colours. These polyester constructions, of which the large mobile home units are the best known, form the AVL trademark. Recurring themes in the work of AVL are autarky, power, politics and sex.
Works of AVL can be found in private collections and several museums.
Via Icon Eye.
Seen from coast to coast and in a variety of styles, from folding to deck chair, this recycled mutt is one of the great undervalued Canadian design pieces. We would like to build up a collection of photographs of these types of pieces
via Canadian Design Resource – Hockey Stick Chair
Paul Cardew Royal Albert Wicker Chair Teapot
Paul Cardew Portmierion Chair Teapot
I didn’t know china chair teapots existed, but they do.
About Paul Cardew, Master Teapot Maker
Over the last fifteen years Paul Cardew has established himself as the world’s preeminent designer and producer of collectible teapots.
His talents have also been widely recognized by museums art galleries and the British Tea Council for whom he designed a special range of teapots in the late 80′s.
His obsession with producing ever more imaginative and intricate designs has remarkably not sent him “potty”. His youthfulness and energy bear witness to the naturally reviving qualities of tea.
You can find more about Paul Cardew and more of his chair teapots at the site Cardew Club
Via
The photo’s of this post are borrowed from Trojan Horse Antiques & Collectibles
The Very Round Chair of Louise Campbell will go to MoMa according to a Zanotta Newsletter
About Louise Campbell
Louise Campbell was born in Copenhagen in 1970. She has a Danish father and an English mother. She grew up in both countries. After graduating from the London College of Furniture in 1992, she returned to Denmark and continued her studies in Industrial Design at Denmark’s Design School, graduating 1995. She set up her own studio in 1996, from where she has worked independently since. Focus is on furniture and lighting design, but the studio is increasingly involved in product design and interior design projects as well. The client list is long and varied, including companies such as Louis Poulsen, Zanotta, HAY, Royal Copenhagen, Holmegaard, Stelton, Muuto, Interstop and The Danish Ministry of Culture. Louise Campbell’s work is playful and experimental, and is increasingly gaining a reputation for gently twisting not only every day objects and situations, but also materials and manufacturing processes in new directions.
In the Sonic Chair you are seated in the speaker.
Off course they are available in many colors.
I am not sure I could withstand sitting in them for a long time….
With this picture of a chair like Cathedral designed by Gio Ponti, really it’s like a Royal Chair, I would like to wish all Chair Blog readers Happy Holidays! The cathedral is in Taranto.
Chair 777 is a very clever design. With a twist of your arm you can use it to sit, relax or lounge.
It’s made from recyclable cardboard by the German artists/designer collective Die Fabrik which means The Factory. Its members are probably located in Würzburg [in a prior version I had mentioned Berlin, apparently erroneously].
Via Design Spotter
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Sitting on the 1,600 pencils-with-erasers of this Pencil Bench probably gives a similar sensation as sitting on the Shotgun Shell Chair but beware the indigo of your jeans is erased rather than shot off.
The extra in it is that you can use each pencil, sharpen it and place it back. Eventually the seat will be very comfortably tailor sharpened.
Via Neatorama
A product of Boex in Cornwall, UK, and awarded at the 2007 Cornwall Design Week.
In April 2007, at a Sotheby’s Los Angeles auction this stunning miniature Fabergé Chair was sold at US $ 2,28 mio.
If you are interested in Fabergé, check out: Mieks Fabergé Eggs of fellow Dutch woman Annemieke Wintraecken.
Junkyard Clubhouse wrote:
It’s the work of Fabergé workmaster Michael Perchin, and is based on furniture designed in 1839 by Leo von Klenze for Tsar Nicholas I for the new Hermitage in St. Petersburg. It’s crafted out of gold and enamel, with the surfaces ground to resemble the grain in mahogany. The front is a removable drawer. Miniature furniture by Fabergé is very rare; other similar pieces, including a miniature table and desk, are in the collection of Queen Elisabeth II.
The Lupita
Thanks to a fellow Trend Hunter, Ben Preiss, I found this funny peeled sofa, the Lupita.
This unique seating arrangement is constructed from a single piece of red oak, cushioned with pleather-covered, high-density foam. The possibilities are great for modular combinations: side-by-side and end-to-end offer some interesting options, but I’m sure you could transform your living room into a veritable jungle gym of loopitas, limited only by your imagination (and funds, perhaps).
Inventor Spot said:
The latest concepts in on-floor seating have quite literally taken a turn. The Loope Lupita, designed by twenty-one year old Victor Aleman, reminds me of a cross between some kind of fruit peel remnant and a mini racetrack my brother used to have (a Scalextric, I believe it’s called?).
The Lupita is a design of Victor Aleman. Here is Victor’s portfolio at Coroflot
