You know I like chairs a bit right? Well, I like chairs because of people like Pierre Paulin. Great designers who use the chair as a conceptual sketchpad. Trying out interesting, sculptural challenging visual ideas.
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Apr 09
Please help
We took delivery of our cool new/old sofa the other day. It was Hamilton that spied it in an antique shop. As soon we saw it we decided it was spot on for a room we are renovating.
However, the million dollar question is what is it? I have looked around for something similar, but to no avail.
30
Mar 09
Objects dissolving
I love objects that have a simple optical illusion in the design, like this one. It makes a lovely game in your mind.
18
Mar 09
Sweet baby Jesus
This chair was recently sold as part of the record breaking auction of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge.
I’m not going to tell you how much it made, I’ll let you guess.
Go on have a guess and then click over to Christies to find out. I guarantee you will be miles off.
24
Feb 09
Disappointed
This sounded like such a good idea when it arrived in my inbox – a team-up between Thonet and Muji.
Thonet is the german furniture manufacturer whose legendary founder pioneered the bentwood process and created one of the all-time classic chairs – no.14; the cafe chair. Muji is the Japanese purveyor of sublime simplicity; so simple they removed the brand, muji means ‘no name’ (let’s not argue about whether removing the name is just another brand).
So these two get together and, to celebrate the cafe chair’s 150th birthday this year, create a simplified, modernised re-issue of it.
They’ve only gone and bloody changed it.
9
Feb 09
Designers, get ready to get jealous
The latest in the category of ‘I wish I’d thought of that’.
Not long ago a chap called Maarten Baas came up with the nice idea of burning and lacquering old furniture, thus giving it a modern decorative new identity. A few people thought it was the next big thing.
23
Jan 09
I’m ignoring the recession
and thinking about nice chairs.
Everyone needs a safe place. Mine is sitting down.
24
Jul 08
Magic Hat – tissues from a top hat
It’s cheesy but I want one.
Have a look at the makers’ site, lots of nice thinking.
