Animal Chair Collection by Maximo Riera
The Animal Chair collection by Spanish designer Maximo Riera is a series of seating from mammals to reptiles, and even including insects. . Rhino Chair is part of his outstanding Animal Chair Collection. This sculptural ‘throne’ is built in a superior scale to generate an authoritative force respecting qualities present in the animal itself. This collection is homage to these animals and the whole animal kingdom which inhabits our planet, as an attempt to reflect and capture the beauty of nature in each living thing. Read More…
Florinda Chairs by Monica Förster for De Padova
Stockholm-based contemporary Swedish designer Monica Förster has created a series of coloured chairs called ‘Florinda’ for the Italian manufacturer De Padova. The juxtaposition of antithetical materials like wood and plastic, in the name of aesthetics and practicality of use, gives rise to the new Florinda chair. Read More…
Batoidea Chair by Peter Donders
Aptly named by Belgian designerPeter Donders for the genus of fish which includes the elegant stingray, Batoidea is an example of design and technology. Fluid and airy the chair defies practical conventions. Read More…
Mikado Chair by Johannes Foersom & Peter Hiort-Lorenzen
Mikado Chair created by Johannes Foersom & Peter Hiort-Lorenzen is a modern expressive interpretation of the 18th-century Windsor chair. The chair is constructed using the same principle as the Windsor chair.
The chairs are based on a construction principle that uses the seat as the element that joins everything together. Mikado comes in solid beech or beech/walnut, lacquered or leached, with solid walnut back spindles and legs. The chair also comes with a standard cushion, which is finished in flax or leather. Read More…
Lounge Module Project by Edgar Navarro
“Module Lounge” is a project realized by the designer Mexican Edgar Navarro. It is an adjustable table that forms a single block, while when the time for dinner comes, the table releases four chairs and a lamp from the center of the table.
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Music Box Chair by Jeroen Wesselink
Jeroen Wesselink recently came up with music box chair that actually has 11 music boxes built in to the chair, one of which appears to play the melody of ‘What a Wonderful World.’ Read More…
Typographic Furnitures by Tabisso
Tabisso’s typographic lounge furniture comes in letters A-Z and numbers 0-9 and the coordinating floor lamps cover more than 20 punctuation marks.
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Wishbone Y Chair by Carl Hansen & Søn
For the Wishbone Y Chair’s 60th anniversary, the Danish furniture designer Hans J. Wegner, Carl Hansen & Son has released 12 new colors.
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Dedon Showroom
German company Dedon furniture has sent us pictures of their showroom in the International Furniture Fair in Milan 2011 designed by Nicola Rapetti, creative director of the firm. Read More…
Icons Chairs by Jan Plechac
The ‘Icons’ is a series of iconic chairs made of wire frame unveiled at the Milan Furniture Fair last month. Jan Plecháč revisited the Louis chair, the Red and Blue chair by Gerrit Rietveld, the Kubus by Josef Hoffmann, and last but not least, the Fatboy Beanbag. Read More…
“Cheap Ass Elites,” Seating Collection by Saran Yen
‘Cheap Ass Elites’ is new series of furniture by new designer from Thailand, Saran Yen Panya. Using recycled plastic baskets and cast off chair legs, the installation “Cheap Ass Elites” combines the mass-produced with the glitzy.
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Loops Chair by Sophie de Vocht
Inspired by the technique of tufting which is typically used to make rugs, Sophie de Vocht creates the Loop Chair with metal frame over which the designer placed textile loops that keep growing bigger as they distance themselves from the top side of the chair. As the chaise drops to the floor, the loops become exaggerated until they fan out onto the floor.
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Slice chair by Mathias Bengtsson
Danish-born Mathias Bengtsson (b. 1971), who resides in London and Stockholm, created the Slice chair concept, which weds organic shapes with cutting-edge technology, in 1999. Slice began as a hand-modeled clay form that blurs a chair’s distinction between armrests, backrest, legs and frame. The organic shape was sliced into horizontal layers, digitally manipulated, formed again by a laser cutter, and then hand assembled and polished.
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“Coat Check Chair,” Concept by Joey Zeledón
The Coat Check Chair concept by Joey Zeledón uses plastic hangers and a steel bar from a standard closet.
It is designed to encourage people to hang their coats up properly.
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“The Invisibles Light, ” Furniture Collection by Tokujin Yoshioka for Kartell
Tokujin Yoshioka, will introduce a series of clear acrylic furniture for the Italian brand Kartell in Milan Design Week 2011.
“The Invisibles Light” is as if hiding its appearance to escape from this material world. It melts into people’s daily lives like the air.
They were an exceptionally experimental pieces made out of the transparent blocks of acrylic. The poetic, yet dynamical presences reveal the essence of the pieces, and leave a mysterious scenery. The Invisibles goes beyond the concept of the products, and holds the quality as an art piece.
Affinity Chair by Ben Alun-Jones
Ben Alun-Jones latest work attempt at the impossible: invisibility. In the dark this mirror-surfaced seat reflects its surroundings and blends into its background. When approached, however, it comes awake and alive, animated by lights than turn the reflective surfaces into a series of transparent voids, filled with a simple set of infinite-depth optical illusions. Read More…
Meltdown PP Tube 1 by Tom Price
Meltdown PP Tube 1 is a striking chair designed and created by British Designer Tom Price. The chair is made of recycled plumbing tubes that have been heated and pressed together to form a seat. The ends of the tubes melt and fuse together as they come into contact with the heat, leaving an artistic pattern of irregular holes on the surface of the molded seat.
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Bahia Chair by Studio 20age
Created by 20age, Bahia Chair is a vintage chair that was reupholstered in yellow velvet cord and yellow and green checked cotton and has 5,000 Brazilian ribbons attached to the back side. According to 20age, these ribbons are a lucky charm in Brazil. Typically one ties it to one’s wrist using three knots. A wish is made for each knot and when the band falls off your wishes come true.
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