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Last year I posted about the White Books Chair project of Enzo Iorio. Yesterday I received an e-mail from Enzo informing me that the installation had won the honors of the Cartasia Biennial of contemporary art, held in Lucca, Italia, with main focus on paper art. Congratulations Enzo!
White Books Chair Instalation Awarded is a post from: Chair Blog.

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The Strap It Stool by Harry Hassan is a similar idea (but then completely different) as the Vitra endorsed Chairless
Via Dornob and Dezeen
Strap Your Stool together by Harry Hasson is a post from: Chair Blog.

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Recently the Rotterdam Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum bought this Tube Chair by Dutch architect and member of De Stijl Group: J.J.P. Oud.
Via the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant.
Tube Chair by J.J.P. Oud is a post from: Chair Blog.

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Two Columbia Road is a London based gallery specializing in a broad range of collectible furniture, associated design, works of art and photography from Scandinavia, Europe, and North America. Sometimes they have extra ordinary chairs for sale.
Here are two clearly Dutch Red Chairs they offer for sale. However 2 Columbia Road attributes them to the La Haye School, which to my view is wrong. The La Haye School is French for Haagse School or Hague School which is only about painters and not about furniture. Maybe they should be attributed to a member of De Stijl Group whose most prominent Chair designer was Gerrit Rietveld. Maybe this is a design by Theo van Doesburg or by J.J.P. Oud, both members of De Stijl who also designed chairs.
Two Red Chairs at Two Columbia Road is a post from: Chair Blog.

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I know, like many men I can get distracted easily and like many men I’m not very good in multitasking. After a period of extensively editing Chairblog, other projects asked for my attention and I realized I didn’t post for a whole week here, because I – and many newsletter subscribers with me – didn’t get a newsletter today…
I had this photo of Charlize Theron lying around somewhere between my to publish stacks for quite some time. I probably found it at Starophile a French site of star lovers and I couldn’t resist publishing it here.
Chairlize is a post from: Chair Blog.

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Origami Sofa Bed by Cattelan Italia

Another beautiful creation inspired by origami art, designed by Andrea Lucatello and branded under Italy furnish production company  Cattelan Italia. Origami shows off its sleek clean modern in soothing smooth caramel leather. It looks nice as a sofa, but looks even better as a bed. Check out his other exquisite furnitures, like the Dylan Bed, and the Coral Table. I absolute love his work.

Origami Sofa Bed by Cattelan Italia

Origami Sofa Bed by Andrea Lucatello is a post from: Chair Blog.

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Geraldine Husson has a particular view on chairs Dress.You dress yourself with these dresses and have your seat cushion with you
Via Elit Alice and Yatzer
Dressed To Sit by Geraldine Husson is a post from: Chair Blog.

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Bretz Kautsch 2010 by Carolin Fieber

Check out these amazing retro sofas that won the Reddot Design Award in 2010 by Carolin Fieber. I’ve always loved Bretz’s boldness and modernness yet staying perfectly comfortable.

Bretz Kautsch 2010 by Carolin Fieber

Bretz introduces their 2010 Kautsch sofas by Carolin Fieber is a post from: Chair Blog.

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The Jenju Village Community in Taiwan, also known as ‘Jane’s Pearl’, is the ancestral site of the Pingpu Kamalan Tribe. The Dongshan river runs directly through the community, making it ideal for residents to preserve the area’s rice paddy-based industry, which accounts for up to 136 hectares of the area in and around the village. Following each rice harvest, a huge amount of rice straw is left behind. historically for farmers, this was an essential building and material supply. However, with our changing times, this excess supply is no longer needed for building and is not being utilized.
Taiwan is currently facing many agricultural changes, as certain types of materials and products are being removed from their areas. Jenju Village communities are promoting the symbiotic concept of peaceful coexistence with nature, encouraging us to return what we have expelled, so that nature can begin to produce and provide us with essentials once again. For the preservation of the village’s rural culture and ideas concerning the environment, Taiwanese designers Gina Hsu(Hsu Ching Ting 徐景亭) and Nagaaki Shaw(Hsiao Yung Ming 蕭永明) have developed ‘Rice Straw Design’ – a series of objects – in which the straw received from the fields is used by the community to promote the material itself, becoming a point of departure for use in arts and crafts. As part of the development and usage of this rice straw, a museum, as well as a DIY shop has been established so that visitors can experience the art and craft of working with the natural material.

Rice Straw Designs by Gina Hsu, Nagaaki Shaw and Jenju Villagers

Rice or grain products have advantages and disadvantages concerning its usages as a design material. One of the advantages of rice straw, rice bran or rice itself is that it is rich in texture. however, the major disadvantage of these materials is that they do not possess enough long-term durability. Gina Hsu and Nagaaki Shaw have combined epoxy resin with the straw and rice to improve their resilience and durability so that the materials may serve a broader purpose and be transformed into items used in the home on a daily basis.

Rice Straw Stool by Gina Hsu and Nagaaki Shaw

The projects will be on show at the Lanyang Museum, Taiwan until september 26th, 2010.
Via Designboom
Rice Straw Stool by Gina Hsu and Nagaaki Shaw is a post from: Chair Blog.

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A couple of days ago Sander van Heukelom drew my attention by linking to the above video on Chair Blog’s FB Page.
Then Design Milk drew my attention announcing the Cap Chair by Studio DFTS ( DFTS stands for Don’t Feed The Swedes) is now available at DFTS Factory…
Now I ask you: Whose Cap Chair was the first?

Sander’s?

or DFTS Factory’s?
I asked Sander and he claims on FB:
My first prototypes of the Fat Cap Chairs are from 2007. I had my first solo show with the Fat Cap Chairs at Outland Modern Art Gallery in Amsterdam with the title “The artistry of the cap” in 2008.
DFTS claims their first model was from… 2005…..
I found Sander’s a year ago…
Whose Cap Chair (or Stool) was First? is a post from: Chair Blog.

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Plum Stool by Alvaro Uribe
an “exploration into carbon fiber and its possible implementations into residential furniture.” It is stackable.
Via Design Milk.
Plum Stool by Alvaro Uribe is a post from: Chair Blog.

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In surfing the internet for material for Chair Blog it helps me that I have a very associative mind. I was Googling pictures for “Burnt Rietveld”, because I noticed that I had no photos yet from Maarten Baas’s (in my view in)famous burned chair series which Maarten produced or maybe even created (I would avoid the term designed in this case) long before I started to blog here about chairs.
Nowadays I see several young designers piggy back on an illustrious predecessor’s name and produce a hack or an interpretation to create fame for themselves. I would say piggy back fame or media hype. I know I am a bit traditional in this sense and not so out of the box thinking as the honorable teachers of especially the Dutch Design Academy in Eindhoven tend to teach their students. On the other hand I do admit that it works. When I think burnt chair I immediately associate it with Maarten Baas. In that sense the piggy backing helps, because he dared to burn famous chairs.
Then I found the above photo of a Gerrit Rietveld‘s burnt Zig Zag Chair (another example here) by Maarten Baas at the Flickr account of….Che Eyzenbach and guess what? Che is a 2009 alumni from the Eindhoven Design Academy and designs chairs himself. His graduation project is a set of 7 beautifully designed cardboard seating elements by the name of Flow.

I know, by introducing Che in this way to you, this humble amateur chair aficionado now makes connections between Che Eyzenbach and famous predecessors and might suggest he was piggy backing. He was not! Certainly not in his designs, even not on Frank Gehry‘s Nested Cardboard Chair nor his Easy Edges Chair nor his Contour Chair, because Flow is an entirely different concept…
I may even do him injustice, because if I look into his portfolio, I have a feeling we will see his star rise to maybe equal or higher levels….
Have a look for yourself at Che’s Portfolio and let me know your view in the comments.
Rietveld – Baas – Gehry – Che Eyzenbach Connections? is a post from: Chair Blog.

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