Category: Chair

Femme Chair

This elegant little chair is designed by Rik ten Velden. Bearing the name of “Femme Chair”, this chair is constructed from a single rope. Rick ten Velden is fascinated with sailor’s knots and all the different objects knots can create. He spent three months learning how to knot before he perfected the technique. Then he started the Single Knotted Collection, and is currently making objects all using these knot techniques. The seat of this chair is made of classic rope, and the rest is made of a single metal rod that curves into two circles, one to support the bottom and the other to support the seat. I love the simplicity of the two materials and how they work together. The use of rope in the seat also ensures durability. This is a chair made to last.

The Femme Chair is obviously reminiscent of all things maritime, providing a simple nod to its inspiration. This chair does not hide anything, its structure and composition are plain for all to see, allowing one to trace its origins and see how the parts fit together. Femme Chair is quiet and unassuming, but possesses a strong sense of character. The way the circle tilts upwards, delicately balanced on its base, gives it a bird-like quality. Perhaps like a little bird perched on a little ship.

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Rock Chair

Studio Färg & Blanche have designed this stunning modern rocking chair as a reaction to the dwindling rocking chairs available in the furniture market today. According to Färg & Blanche:

Being rocked as a means of relaxation or comfort is a timeless, basic human experience. Though at some time in the early 20th century the design development of the rocking chair stopped. Rocking chairs frequently remain in an ornate, salon mode. Fredrik Färg’s Rock Chair is a rocking chair for our own time. It continues the traditional rocking chair’s comforting function but in a modern design.

Rock Chair is an elegant design composed of simple elements. The chair is sold in a flat pack that contains five pieces. The pieces easily fit together and the finished chair reveals its construction. Accordingly, the process of assembly becomes a design feature. The viewer understands the process by which the chair came together because nothing about the construction is hidden from sight. Rock Chair has an ease and simplicity about it. I love its clever functionality, and its classic charm ensures it will fit in well with any living environment. Rock Chair even comes with corresponding cushions in either leather or canvas, to allow to for the most comfortable and stylish of rocking experiences.

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Tuoli

Pasila Design, a recent founded small Finish family business design agency, created Tuoli. Tuoli is an ergonomic, minimalist, chair for parents making it easy for them to interact – on eye level -with a playing child on the floor. The chair is multi functional as one can create a slide for the child by turning it upside down.

Pasila design just finished their first furniture collection, a collection that consists of  timeless designs and classic furniture with a funny edge. At the moment the products are prototypes, but their goal is to be able to offer furniture for your home in the near future.

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Dual Cut

Hong Kong born and Canada based designer Kitmen Keung has collaborated with Belgian furniture label Sixinch on their début project, Dual Cut – a modular furniture piece that employs the simplest production processes true to its materials with minimal wastage.

The design features two ergonomically comfortable L-shaped foam blocks and a multi-formation ability to compose a one seater with a side table, a chaise lounge or a corner table. Dual Cut is available in Light Grey and Dark Grey and with a three-layer-system coating, it’s suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.

The designer explains:

Dual Cut was designed with a dedication to Sixinch’s urethane cut technology, which is processed by data without the need of molding. It was an experiment to minimise the production process and material wastage, and more importantly to maximise its function values and flexibility in real life.

Not only does this look good, but it’s an effective and practical way of occupying restricted spaces in the home.

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DL 2 Euclides easy chair

Recently founded and family-run German furniture manufacturer, Loehr, have designed the DL 2 Euclides easy chair – a lounge chair with a suitable and attractive minimal form.

The austere geometry of the frame made of 25mm tubular steel and the two-cushion removable upholstery, blend with simple elegance. With a seat height of 410mm and 800mm wide, the DL 2 chair offers a generous seating area, and is suitable for any lounging environment. The frame is available either in high gloss polished stainless steel or powder coated steel. As for the upholstery, high quality leather or selected fabrics are available.

Not only do I feel this chair exudes a clean geometric simplicity, which very much appeals, but perhaps most importantly, it appears to be very comfortable.

Photography by Stafan Höderath

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7 Chairs

German multifaceted creative Jan von Borstel, based in Hamburg and London, is a designer, artist and consultant. Exhibiting graceful forms and simplicity with efficiency, von Borstel’s installations and products are wonderful examples of modernism in art and design. One such example is the evolution of 7 Chairs – a feature of his Snow White installation in London.

Made from laser-cut sheet metal, which is then bent and dipped in glossy white PVC, the chairs together represent the smooth metamorphosis from a relaxed lounge chair to an upright kitchen chair, which includes changes in seating height and backrest angle.

From the concept to the chair designs themselves, I really enjoy this.

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Katra

Aparte is a French design agency who recently presented a prototype of their paper-thin Katra chair, made of ramie fiber.

Katra is inspired by the intrinsic qualities of the material from which it is made. Formed from a composite consisting primarily of ramie, the material offers superior strength, lightness and durability. Katra’s design reflects these qualities and represents the unique creative opportunities the furniture industry is just beginning to explore with the composite.

A great combination of minimal design and eco-friendly technology.

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Surface

Surface table and chair collection is a combined effort of two giants, one from the world of furniture design and one from the world of Formula One racing car design. Terence Woodgate and John Barnard teamed up to create this innovative table for British manufacturer Established & Sons, and after the success of the project added a chair to it. Both pieces are made from the same layered carbon fibre material John Barnard famously introduced for the McLaren Formula One car chassis in 1981. Thanks to the lightweight durability of the material, the table can span 3 meters while remaining super thin (the piece has a thickness of just 2mm at the edge).

The Surface chair follows the same trait of delicate form and supreme structural integrity. Its paper-thin seat can withstand even the heaviest occupant. Both Surface items come in black. The table also comes in walnut veneer.

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Aluminium Chair

Berlin based German designer Sebastian Scherer has created the Aluminium Chair as part of his Aluminium collection. The collection was presented at this year’s DMY, the International Design Festival in Berlin.

Devoid of additional materials and hardware, this elegant chair, designed in black and white, is comprised of open loops and sleek curves. With its continuous form, one will struggle to establish where the aluminium material begins and where it ends.

The 8 mm water-cut aluminium seating was constructed with the objective of folding the 2D cut-out into a 3D shape. The finished product resulted in impeccable similarity to that of its cardboard prototype.

The smooth curved legs in particular look fantastic. As for the comfort level this chair offers, I can only wish to discover that.

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Sail

Sail collection of etherial chairs by Piergiorgio Cazzaniga has been recently revealed at Andreu World in Valencia. The silhouette of the Sail chair is slim and simple, the weight is reduced to a minimum thanks to the clever combination of polypropylene and fiberglass. The shape goes beyond aesthetics, however, embracing human body and providing strategic curves where needed.

Sail tense to reach the right shape to receive the body in a comfortable way. Technology is pushed to the extreme to obtain a very light but very strong chair without nothing more than the needful to be nice.

The shape also allows maximum stackability, and the range of subtle hues makes stacked chairs look quite beautiful. Sail comes in black, beige, cream, white, and red.

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