Posts Tagged ‘chair’

Organic Lounge Chair by Verner Panton

August 20th, 2011

What’s a house without a nice comfy chair? If you feel the same, here’s the System 1-2-3 Lounge Chair designed by Verner Panton. His idea was to create furniture that grows out of the floor and to turn it into something organic. The series originally comprised 20 different models with variations in seat height, arm rests and feet. The public was very enthusiastic about the chairs at the time.

Having a thing for pushing materials to their limit, the Danish architect and designer came up with these unconventional chairs. This collection took about three years to be finished. The name comes from the fact that there were three ways to get it, from a chair without padding to a deluxe, tufted version.

This chair has a tabular steel frame, circle shaped steel foot, removable upholstery Mira-X. Moreover you can benefit from full support and a gentle waterfall edge behind your knees. What’s more each chair comes with a certificate of authenticity and the designer’s signature is stamped into the base.

Produced by Verpan, the System 1-2-3 Lounge Chair is a good acquisition for your home. Whether you want it for its comfort or for its bold, bright colors, you can be sure that you won’t regret it.

The Panton Chair has won various design prizes world-wide and graces the collections of numerous renowned museums. Its expressive shape makes it a true 20th-century design icon. The chair offers great seating comfort thanks to the cantilever base, together with its shape designed to do justice to the human body and flexible materials. It can be used on its own or in groups, in rooms and even outdoors.

Accents of your interior: rugs

May 28th, 2011

More and more people are choosing wood, composite, marble, tile for their homes instead of carpet which means that rugs are becoming more popular than ever. Of course, those who have carpet also enjoy adding rugs to save the carpet from wear and tear, add style and even cover stains. Some individuals have no problem just going into a store and picking up a few rugs but if you’re investing in a large expensive area rug, you may want to put a little thought into your decision.

Play with Your Furniture

Your furniture will play a role in determining not only the size and style of the rug but the placement as well. If you are someone who moves around your furniture from time to time, you will need to imagine all scenarios and if your rug will accommodate your creativity. Don’t be afraid to get out your measuring tape to measure the space, this may also help you determine if you want a square, rectangular or round rug.

Explore Your Options

Rugs should ultimately compliment your decor however, in a simplistic or contemporary room, they can quickly become a focal point if you want to add in a bright color or pattern. If you are looking for a rug to place under your dining room table, be sure that it’s large enough for all chairs to fit on it, there is nothing worse than sitting on an uneven chair that’s half on and half off a rug.

Runners are great for entryways, hallways and stairs while floor mats made from bamboo, rattan, sisal or any other natural material will add just the right amount of texture to your flooring.

Experiment

Don’t be afraid to combine several rugs in one room that don’t necessarily exactly match. This is a good way to break up a large space or studio apartment, giving each area its own identity. You may also want to layer rugs if you start feeling really creative.

Armchair by the Campana brothers for Edra

April 20th, 2011

Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana present the wrinkly armchair for Italian brand Edra at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week. Called Grinza, the design has a steel frame covered in polyurethane foam and folds of leather or fur.

The Campana brothers, in their years with Edra, have always considered the material with which each piece is realized as a value unto itself. From the wooden slats of the Favela chair, to the long strands of raffia of the Cabana container, to the curved stainless steel of the Corallo chair or the 120 meters of velvet tubing of the Boa sofa. And now there’s Grinza, which has a steel tube frame and polyurethane padding, with great expanses of leather or eco-fur draped softly over the structure.

Innovation, culture, new functions and peerless performance. There are many different reasons for owning an Edra settee or armchair. Yet these are not the only things that put Edra products in a class of their own. Edra products are a matchless blend of tradition and innovation, technology and craftsmanship, high-tech industrial processes and sartorial mastery: a priceless combination of natural and man-made. Every Edra product is unique: an extraordinary amalgam of Edra’s highly contemporary approach to handicraft and its ongoing search for technical perfection.

Wooden chair by Doshi Levien for Moroso

April 13th, 2011

London studio Doshi Levien will present this injection-molded wooden chair for Italian brand Moroso at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next week. Called Impossible Wood, the piece is made of a thermoplastic composite comprising 80% wood fiber and 20% polypropylene. Perched on metal legs, the seat shell appears to be made from strips of wood but in fact the shape can only be formed by injection molding.

The moldable wood material has very distinct visual and tactile properties. It is a thermoplastic composite made using 80% wood fiber and 20% polypropylene and it can be processed using conventional injection molding machines. The pressure and heat from the mould releases moisture from the wood fiber which in turn burns on the surface of the aluminum tool, creating a random, leather-like tarnished effect.

Inspired by the characteristics of this material, the designers decided to create a chair that references the genre of light, graceful, bent wood frame chairs but would be impossible to make in any other way than by injection molding, hence the name “impossible wood”. We were intrigued by the depth and texture of the material that is the opposite of slick, homogenous, surface perfect plastic, currently used for most molded chairs.

‘Impossible wood’ chair has a used, worn, raw and earthy quality that is timeless and natural. It also smells of wood. The designers were inspired at the work of Martin Puryear, an African American sculptor who made a piece called Cedar Lodge in 1977.

Vitra best chairs

February 27th, 2011

Vitra is the Swiss company famous since 1934 with the production of qualitative designer furniture for home and office. Vitra was one of the first in the world who run the producing of furniture of glass fiber, plastic and bent veneer. The company collaborates with famous architects and designers – Verner Panton, Philipp Stark, Jasper Morrison and many others.

Today fabric Vitra produces furniture and accessories for decoration of interior. The history of creation of many of them is quite interesting and uncommon. These are the legendary and original chairs of fabric Vitra!

Vegetal Chair. Sitting, back and armrests are the unit and looks like either the leaf or the branches of tree. The designers Ronan and Ervan Burulekki inspired with the masterpieces of garden-park art of XIX century when the crowns of trees were given the certain form. Being charmed with this idea brothers decided to grow their chair using the modern technologies. The chair is made of flat metal ribbons interlaced with each other and gives the uncommon shadow.

Wiggle Chair. Designer Frank Gery is famous with his experiments with new materials. In 1972 he started using the common cardboard in production and he managed to give the new life to this everyday material. At that time the collection of light and uncommon chairs and stools Easy Edges was created looking like the traditional African sittings. In spite of flexibility and small weight of the material the chairs Wiggle made of cardboard are very comfortable and steady.

Portakal convertible bed by Esin Isik

January 3rd, 2011

One associates mandarins with New Year, snow, freeze and presents. Oranges – with bright orange sun and vitamin C. Grapefruits also associate with something. Citrus plants are the charge of vivacity and positive therefore it is not surprising that Turkish designer Esin Isik made the project of the bed for children room exactly “orange”. Portakal translated from Turkish means exactly “orange”.

Only those will understand what the small-sized apartment is who had to live in the room half of which the folding sofa takes and other part of placement contains the wardrobe and stand with TV. And if there are also children? Portakal convertible bed is intended exactly for the family where the child preschool or elementary school age lives.

Making use of space and developing furniture with extreme function, such as having convertible furniture, is very much the trend among designers these days. This set is so efficient as it has the cot/bed, the working/changing table, stool and wall hang. It all helps in decluttering the bedroom.

By the way the modular bed can also be the “growing” furniture because it consists of swaddle table which will turn into small desk and also stand, chair-pouf and bed.

Why for the child preschool or elementary school age, you may ask? Well, the older child will not have enough place in this bed and even if he is, he will consider the orange bed to be unserious and nonsolid. At any case, Portakal convertible bed is exceptionally positive and comfortable furniture which will for sure be liked by the child and his parents.

Grand Teton Lounger Frame

December 24th, 2010

Grand Teton Lounger Frame is a chair, multi-position lounger, and a Full-size bed. This lovely unfinished pine full size futon adds style to any room decor. It is especially perfect for smaller rooms with limited space for seating.

Designed with positive seat lock, bed lock and two lounge locks. With one easy movement you can transform it from Chair to Lounger to Bed. You can kick up your legs when the lounge extension is up, or keep it down; your choice! The lounge extension conveniently hides between the futon and seat deck when not in use. Our patented design gives this versatile chair two added lounge positions in addition to the regular upright, seated position.

The Grand Teton Lounger Frame is made in America with only Premium Southern Yellow Pine. It comes unfinished so you can stain it as you like to fit any decor. Or, you can leave it unfinished for a rustic look. Available sizes are Full, Loveseat Lounger, Twin Lounger and Chair.

Prince Chair by Louise Campbell for Hay

December 10th, 2010

Louise Campbell originally designed this extraordinary chair in 2001 for a by-invitation-only competition to create a chair for His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. Life full of contrasts was the obvious inspiration in designing the chair. With its laser-cut, wool-covered, black rubber seat on a powder-coated steel frame, it provides a stunning focal point for any room. The perforated design looks like a cut-out paper snowflake, but the materials used give it a high-tech, modern twist. The seat is neoprene rubber and black wool. The white felt is also acceptable. The Prince Chair is basically paper cuttings, but the chair also explores the contrasts between light and shadow and lightness and gravity.

The chair didn’t win this competition, but has, since Hay decided to put it into production in 2005, managed to create a pleasantly high-flying jet-set life for itself anyway.

Louise Campbell was born in Copenhagen in 1970. Louise is an intellectual human being, but she also has a natural design instinct that make the ideas just come to her. She set up her own studio in 1996. Focus is on furniture and lighting design, but the studio is increasingly involved in product design and interior design projects as well. Current commissions include design of chairs, tables, storage units, lamps, tableware, glassware, desktop accessories, and urban installations.

Furniture taken unawares by Nico Yektai

November 15th, 2010

“Adventurous element of modern furniture” – such determination the New-York artist Nico Yektai gave to his invention fulfilled of wood massive. Watering down the borders between functional furniture and sculpture composition the designer formed the charming set intended for cabinet or office. The qualities of these articles of furnishing really go beyond the scope of what could be expected from the design of modern furniture.

The fascination with beauty of hard wood is combined with element of unexpectedness. This furniture is like taken unawares in the forest, in nature, in its natural condition. Such impressive image is intended to break the stereotype thinking and refresh the working process directing it towards creative and unordinary decisions.

The sweeping curves of the modesty panels around the desk relate to the feeling that the top portrays. The feeling of movement – it is as if the desk has been pulled like taffy and frozen in a moment. The drawers have been pulled with everything else and they open in different directions forcing the user to surrender to the desire of the desk since their preconceived notion of pulling the drawers straight out does not get the drawer open.

It seems that the table or chair is nice forest creations living with their own life. But in spite of such awkward and saucy and even clumsy appearance this furniture can become interesting expressive accent both in ultramodern interior and in very close to this design eco style, both in home cozy cabinet and in creative office.

Stretch No. 3 chair by Moran Ein Dor

September 24th, 2010

What seems to be a piece of furniture showing signs of itself pulling away from itself, with stretchy marks like strands of cheese from a pizza slice being pulled away from its whole, this chair design is one eye-catching artifact.

Chair called Stretch No. 3 is the brilliant piece of furniture designed and crafted by Moran Ein Dor, displaying his passion and genius in working with surfaces stretched poles to create classy furniture. The chair is designed using the concept of ‘effects of stretching’.

The extending poles work as columns in this chair and support the surface which acts as the seat. Since, this is yet a concept and it has not entered into the production phase, enthusiasts will have to wait for the time being, if they want to decorate their living rooms with this clip like furniture.

At first look these Stretch no.3 Chair by Moran Ein Dor seems to be some kind of a monster from the third world, but it is in fact quite adorable and artful. Stretch no.3 chair feature what look to be porcelain or plastic poles that support the seat surface. The curves, asymmetry and cartoon-like glossy color seem to give these chairs a touch of future world looks. Hence, they would be a perfect fit for modern design offices or a trend-setters house.