Some posts from Chair Blog up to 04/28/2014

Free Falling Chair by Ezri Tarazi

Ezri took a lady dummy or mannequin, filled it with concrete and let it plunge into a trapezoidal box made from a perforated metal sheets.
The chair is formed.

Design: Ezri Tarazi
Design Assistance: Guy Mishali and Guy Ben Adon
Studio Tarazi Ltd. copyright 2011
This work was published on October 18, 2011 as a memento for Israeli Soldier, Gilad Shalit, who came back from isolated captivity after more than 5 years, and as a salute to his firmness.

Found this chair via edgina on Tumblr:

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Rover Chair by Ron Arad

With the post: Chair Candy 1: Ron Arad at the Centre Pompidou in Paris I started a series of posts of Ron Arad’s solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, an exhibition that later was featured in Moma

Recently I’ve renewed my photo repository and refound the photo’s, so there is some reason to go on with this small series under Ron’s own lemma here: chair candy.

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Jean Prouvé Rare demountable chair, model no. CB22, 1947

Two of these chairs were sold for $56,250 each at a NYC auction of Phillips in December 2012.

Another one of 1948 is for sale in London next week.

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Drawing Room Side Chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Sold at Phillips for a whopping $206,500 in a December 2012 sale in NYC.

The chair was designed for the drawing room of Hous’Hill, Catherine Cranston’s residence at Nitshill, Glasgow, in 1904.

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Prototype Dining Chair by Nanna Ditzel

This prototype dining chair will be on auction at Phillips in London on April 29, 2014. Estimated between £5,000 – 7,000.

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Ring Chair by Maria Pergay

This Ring Chair will be on auction at Phillips in London on April 29, 2014. Their estimate is £18,000 – 24,000.

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Armchair by Hofmeijer Dekker

Dutch designers Jonathan Hofmeijer and Babke Dekker have their studio in Eindhoven where they attended the Design Accademy. I saw their work in Het Kunstgemaal (the Art Waterpumpstation) near the place of birth of one or both of them.

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.03 by Maarten van Severen

This .03 chair designed by Maarten van Severen for Vitra I found in a shopwindow in Vienna.

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