Some posts from Chair Blog up to 06/17/2013

Puzzle Chair by David Jones

Offi is pleased to introduce the patented Puzzle Chair designed by New York architect David Jones. Contains four parts that can be re-assembled many times. Available in primary colors and educational shapes. Made of safety tested plastic in the USA.
Blow-molded UVA protected. HDPE 2 plastic – ultra safe for kids. Made in the USA.
20w x 18d x 21h. Seat is 10.5.

Via 2bmod

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Golden Chair by Giovanni Pagnelli

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1) 282 views: AirGo offers Reclining Airline Seat Horrors Solution:

2) and 3) 280 views: Light Up – Anglerfish inspired Chair:

2) and 3) 280 views: Framework by Steffen Kehrle:

4) 278 views: Wingback upholstered with Josef Frank textile:

5) 277 views: Raquel Welch:

Best 5 of Half May – Half June 2013

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Am very happy with our approximately 4,500 returning visitors. Our real fan base.

Stay tuned!

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Canvas Chair by YOY

Like a print or a painting you can hang these “Chairs” from a wall. They come in 3 variants: Chair, Sofa and stool. They were featured at Milan 2013. To seat you have to take them down and have them leaning against a wall.

YOY [jˈɔɪ] is a Tokyo based design studio composed by Naoki Ono, a spatial designer, and Yuki Yamamoto, a product designer. Started in 2011, their design theme is to create a new story between space and objects.

Images © yasuko furukawa

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The Chair that Grew by John Krubsack

A banker and a farmer John Krubsack in Wisconsin is believed having created the first chair grown, rather than manufactured. In 1903 he started to grow this chair and it was “harvested” in 1914. It has a remarkable story.

John Krubsack:

After I had planted 32 trees, all box elders, in the spring of 1907, I left them to grow in their new home for a year until they were six feet tall, before beginning the chair. In the spring of 1908 I gradually began the work of training the young and pliable stems to grow gradually in the shape of a chair. Most of this work consisted in bending the stems of these trees and tying and grafting them together so as to grow, if possible with all the joints cemented by nature. This was largely an experiment with me and it was with a great deal of interest that I watched and assisted nature in growing piece of furniture.

The first summer’s growth found all the joints I had made by tying and grafting grown firmly together. Some of the trees I found, however, grew much faster than others. To overcome this, I began to cut the stems of those trees that to my notion had grown large enough. This did not kill these trees but simply retarded their growth so as to give the weaker trees a chance to catch up.
In this manner I let these trees grow for seven years. During the last two years I had only four trees growing from the root. These were the four that consisted the legs of the chair and all the other stems kept alive from these four stems because they were grafted to them. After the seventh year all the trees were cut, making in all eleven years from the time the seed was sown until the chair was finally completed

Is it still around?

The chair, eventually dubbed the “Chair That Grew,” had its first big public showing in a natural history exhibit at the 1915 World’s Fair, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, held that year in San Francisco, California.[3] Hugo assisted his father in all aspects of the living chair project and went on to promote it in many ways, including contacting Robert Ripley, who ran it in his “Believe It or Not” column[4] and later filmed John standing beside the chair explaining all about it. The film ran in the weekly newsreels of the time in theaters across the US. The Lloyd Mfg. Co. at the Chicago Furniture Mart subsequently showed the chair during a large trade show for furniture manufacturers. The “Chair That Grew” was displayed on a golden pedestal at the entrance. Krubsack’s chair garnered many offers (one was $5,000) from would-be buyers over the years, but John, and later Hugo, turned them all down. Hugo had no heirs and simply could not bear to see it in the hands of others. He maintained possession of it until he let his nephew Gerhard A. Krubsack buy it for a token amount to use in advertising his furniture business, Noritage Furniture of Embarrass, Wisconsin.

In 1988 the chair was summoned to make another appearance, this time to be sat upon by an actor in the costume of Mickey Mouse, at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, on the occasion of the character’s 60th birthday. Currently the chair sits inside a special Plexiglas case at the entrance of Noritage Furniture, the furniture manufacturing business now owned by John Krubsack’s descendants, Steve and Dennis Krubsack.

Sadly it seems that Noritage Furniture has been closed in the meantime.

Via John Krubsack – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

On the positive site however I’ve found a site Tree Shapers featuring several similar grown chairs.

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Nicola Stäubli — Foldschool

Didn’t know there is a school for folding cardboard chairs.

See Nicola Stäubli — Foldschool.

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Dining Room Chairs by Roberto Pamio and Renato Toso

Via 1stdibs.

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Villa Tugendhat Chairs by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Villa Tugendhat in the Czech city Brno was commissioned by Greta and Fritz Tugendhat and built in 1929-1930. It was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It is placed on the UNESCO List of World Cultural Heritage. Recently it has been completely renovated and it is now open to the public to visit.
Villa Tugendhat is the only example of Modern Architecture in the Czech Republic.
Exact replicas of the 1930 furniture are placed back in the interior.
The Tugendhat Chair and the Brno Chair were especially designed for this project together with Lilly Reich.

Via Tugendhat and via Digital Furniturs

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Rietveld Chair by Ron Arad

Didn’t notice this chair before I saw it being sold at Sotheby’s New York | 06 March 2013.
Peculiar, a Rietveld interpretation by Ron Arad.

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PROPERTY OF A LADY
Ron Arad
“RIETVELD” CHAIR
Estimate: 80,000 – 120,000 USD
LOT SOLD. 194,500 USD (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium)
designed 1990-1992
produced circa 1996
number 6 from an edition of 20 and 5 artist’s proofs
incised Ron Arad 6/20
patinated steel
28 1/4 x 56 1/2 x 18 1/4 in. (71.8 x 143.5 x 46.5 cm)
produced by Ron Arad Studio, Italy

via Sotheby’s

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