Hollow Chair
Design: Judson Beaumont
Client: Straight Line Designs
Date: 2012
Add comment February 3rd, 2012
Furniture
Felt Chairs
Design: Kathryn Walter
Client: Felt Studio
Date: 2012
Photo: Design Lines
Add comment February 1st, 2012
The Ottawa Collection – Dining Chair, Table and Sideboard
Design: Karim Rashid
Client: BoConcept
Date: 2012
1 comment January 30th, 2012
Sekitei Armchair
Design: Oki Sato and Nendo
Client: Cappellini
Date: 2010
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Workshop Chair
Design: Jerszy Seymour
Client: Freakshow Exhibition
Date: 2010
Seymour’s emphasis is on “the ‘primeval soup’ of design, reconsidering materials and shapes with a new ‘alphabet and language’ to examine how industry affects values and social structures.
Via our friends at Mocoloco.
Add comment January 19th, 2012
Dossier Executive Furniture Collection
Design: John Hellwig
Client: Teknion
Date: 2011
Add comment January 17th, 2012
Living Systems
Design: Jersey Seymour
Client: Vitra Design Museum
Date: 2007
“After the fall of communism and the increase of capital globalism we arrive to a state of unbridled consumerism. The necessity is no longer good cheap products for the masses, this is already attainable, cheap products flood the market, sometimes created by the imbalance of rich and poor countries and cheap manufacturing from the far east. It is as if objects have lost there necessity and design its meaning when all we can do is be a tool of marketing to try and sell more things we don´t need to a material addicted society.
The other great question we have today in a world which for the first time in history seems finite. 50 years ago nobody knew about the natural and social limits of our planet, today it stares us in our face. How do we address an issue of sustainability while still understanding that we have to keep a political and social economy running?
The project Living Systems intends to make an experiment of an alternative way. The idea is to create a modern ´Walden`, an economy based on the idea of the individual (or small group) as industry. But from the point of view of designers in the modern world.”
Add comment January 16th, 2012
Babiche Tape
Design: Rita and Francis Rollin
Client: Galerie Commissaires
Date: 2010
Part of the Commissaires galler Babiche exhibition in Montreal, Rita reinterpreted the traditional quebec babiche pattern into a contemporary object : custom printed tape. Like it’s ancestor, the babiche tape can be use to create any kind of usefull devices like chairs, snowshoes or simply seal properly cardboard boxes.
Add comment January 6th, 2012
Office/School Stacking Chairs
Design:
Client: Canadian Office and School Furniture
Date:
These chairs at first seemed familiar to me, but I can’t remember just from where. (public school? a waiting room?). Does anyone have any information on the history of these unknown but iconic pieces?
- KD
5 comments December 19th, 2011
