Magic!
The black Magica and his sister, the white Magica2, will make anyone look twice. Their designer, the Italian Davide Conti, replaced two legs with plexiglass to create the illusion of an impossible balance.
The Magica’s are not in production yet, so manufacturers: give Davide a call!
There’s something about his Simple Chair which I find really attractive… Maybe it’s the fact that it looks small, modest.
Whatever it is, Italian designer Emanuele Magini won the first prize with it in the Promosedia International Design Competition 2009 – Calazza Memorial Challenge.
The jury admired the chair’s design for its beauty and expressive simplicity and for the perfect balance and harmony of solid and void.
I guess that says it quite nicely, actually.
Dutch designer Bram Geenen created the Gaudi chair as a follow-up of his Gaudi stool.
Like the Gaudi stool, the Gaudi chair is developed by using the same methods (models of hanging chains) as Antoni Gaudi used to find the strongest shape for his impressive churches.
The construction of the chair is compared with the stool a bit more complicated due to the forces in the chairs backrest. That is why Geenen combined the chain models with a software script to determine a 3D printed structure of nylon ribs to distribute the forces of the backrest across the chair. The structure is covered by a thin shell of carbon fiber.
This is not a stool.
This is N° 019: a chair disguised as a stool. The chair is completely flat, until someone sits in it.
N° 019 is designed by Andreas Aas, a designer and architect who lives and works between Paris, France and Fredrikstad, Norway. Here’s what he says about the concept:
When not in use, the chair occupies minimal space – both physically and mentally. It is only when used that the chair takes on the more strenuous shape of the human body.
With this in mind, the N° 019 must be the ultimate chair for Über-minimalist interiors.
April fool’s or serious design?
Vitra introduces the Chairless – a belt which you wrap around back and knees, so you can lean into it. It’s actually exactly like a suitcase strap, hint hint…
The Chairless is designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, who was inspired by a seating belt used by the Ayoreo indians in Paraguay.
To be honest, I find it hard to believe that this is real, but it might just as well turn out to be the Twitter among chairs… We’ll see!
The geometric formed Lift Tables, designed by German based designer Mark Braun, will be part of DMY’s exhibit at the Milan Design Week next week.
The roto mould - a molding process for creating many kinds of mostly hollow plastic products - tables have two areas each for so called flexible use like for example a pack of books you want to read.
Unfortunately you cannot buy the tables yet … since Braun is looking ahead for producers of this nice minimalist furniture pieces.
A chair you can’t see, isn’t that minimalist? Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has created a collection of ‘invisible’ furniture pieces for Kartell, employing their pioneering polycarbonate technology.
Yoshioka explains: In the last few years I have been thinking about a design that would include natural phenomena and invisible elements such as senses, wind and light. The ‘Invisibles’, a special collection launched from Kartell, only leaves the sense as if seating in the air. The presence of the object is eradicated and it will create a scenery of a sitter floating in the air. It is as if the physical presence of the object has been uprooted and gives life to a ‘floating’ scenario. Even the installation itself gives visitors that extraordinary sensation of entering an unreal world.
The Invisibles collection encompasses tables, occasional tables, sofas, armchairs and benches which will be on show during Milan Design week 2010 at the Kartell flagstore. To be continued…
It’s always interesting to see when people are asking the same questions as you are. In this case: what would be the most simple simplest chair possible?
Grycja Erde, a 23 year old student at the Academy of Design and Arts in Kharkov Lviv, Ukraine, set out to create just that. This is her concept.
When you can draw the design of an object with one single line, and do that even after you only saw it briefly more than a week ago, then you know you’ve encountered something special.
Lounge chair Onda by Spanish designer Diego Granese consists of a single piece of stainless steel, covered with leather. It saw the light in 2003 and is produced by the Spanish furniture manufacturer Frajumar.
I haven’t been able to try it for myself, but it looks like quite the balancing act. Either way, a great conversation piece.
At first glance, this chair seems to defy gravity, by standing upright while only having two front legs.
It is only on closer inspection that you see that the shadow is part of the chair, and made from steel, which is attached to a metal frame built inside the chair: the chair is resting on its own shadow.
This Shadow Chair is a design of Chris Duffy of Duffy London, a British design firm producing furniture, lighting and interior products.
