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The Pallares chair by designer Carlos Cordoba is the result of a research to develop new materials from natural fibers. Each chair is composed of 3 identical parts cast from a natural fiber tetera and polyester resin composite. The interchangeable parts can snapped together like puzzle pieces for easy assembly, disassembly, and storage.

Designer: Carlos Cordoba

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If you’ve ever had someone sit in your lap, you know that 15 minutes is about the max your legs can handle. It’s really not fair. The Hug chair brings simple design and human gesture together for that extra time you want to sit with your significant other. When you’re away from your special someone the extra seat doubles as a convenient space, perfect for catching up on video chat.

Designer: Ilian Milinov

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Take a sneak peek at Pawel Grunert’s newest creation, the Nest Chair (SIE51). As you’ve probably already can guess, the design is inspired by a nest. Handmade from stainless steel, the chair is suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. I have no idea how comfortable it is but if it’s anything like my steel scrubber, I’ll pass.The official premier will take place at 2011 Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.

Price on request here.

Designer: Pawel Grunert

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This felt chairputs a new twist on sustainable ecodesign. The FF1 by designers James van Vossel and Tom de Vrieze at Fox and Freeze is comprised of only two components: one solid synthetic felt sheet and flax rope. The felt is coiled and recoiled to form the base, seat, and back while the flax rope holds the form and provides a nice finishing touch. Aside from drilling holes there is no loss of material and the structure is completely self supporting. Total potential for DIY. Felt follows function in this symmetric yet asymmetric design.

Designers: James van Vossel & Tom de Vrieze

Don’t think it’ll hold up? Check out the strength test vid!

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Now THIS is a proper armchair. Designer Jonas Lindvall had softness in mind when he crafted this lightweight stackable. The seat, back, and armrest are made from a fiberglass/synthetic rubber composite and the legs are aluminum, making this piece 100% recyclable. With legs resembling equine-esque stockings and an elegant backrest to boot, this armchair concept is both practical and refined.

Designer: Jonas Lindvall for Johanson Design

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I have a strange obsession with cuttlefish and it seems I’m not the only one fascinated by these creatures. The Sepii, named after the cuttlefish order sepiidae, is an ten-legged chair made from ash wood. Designed by K to N Studio in collab with Yoho, the chair is a gorgeous modern reference to its muse. Only three of the legs ever touch the ground at one time so feel free to “rock” it back and forth – perfect for my chair dancing routines. Yeah… I’ve choreographed chair dancing routines but I’ll save that for another post.

Credits
Photography by Ida Buss
Fashion by Hot Friture

Designer: K to N Studio with Yoho

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The influence behind this royal thrown of neoplasticism was work by artist Piet Mondrian. Mondriz is the result of design team Dedeia’s understanding that the line has almost become a work of art in itself. They have taken great veneration to ensure that no line was superfluous or misplaced, and the color chosen was in reverence of it’s inspiration. Mondriz verifies that linear, vertical and horizontal arrangement is inherently harmonious. It’s pure symmetry and powerful coloring make it an eye-catching addition to any space.

Designer: Dideia

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Ben Alun-Jones’ latest work is an attempt at the impossible: invisibility. ‘There is something of an ideology in chair design,’ he explains, ‘that really what you want to sit on is nothing – like you’re supported by air. That’s how I began creating a chair that, in a way, wasn’t there. A structure made out of light.’ The ‘Affinity Chair’ is unlikely to win any prizes for comfort, but it pulls off an impressive vanishing act.

Plastic acrylic sheet and one-way mirror film are used to create a structure that reflects and merges with its surroundings. The chair not only responds to and camouflages itself to match its environment, it also interacts directly with the sitter: sensors activate pulsing LEDs hidden within its frame that quicken like a heart beat as it is approached. The effect is eerie: as the chair is lit from within, its reflective surfaces becomes transparent and all its edges are illuminated. The chair’s disappearance is an attempt at escape; yet this strangely animate object remains rooted to the spot, its vanishing body revealing a further hidden space within.

Alun-Jones’ explains his work as using technology itself as an artistic medium to challenge existing perceptions. His materials are unconventional – LEDs, ultrasonic sensors, custom-built and programmed circuit boards. The result is new, challenging, and anything but robotic.

The Affinity Chair will feature at the Royal College of Art Interim Show (Wed 2nd – Mon 7th Feb) as well as appearing at V&A Connects with… ARTS THREAD (Tues 25th Jan) and the V&A Digital Festival (Sat 5th March), both at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Materials:
Acrylic, Mirror Film, LED, Ultrasonic sensor, Custom Electronics and Code

Photography : Luke Bennett

Designer: Ben Alun-Jones

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In the design and creation of the following addition to the industrial chair legacy, designer Adam Moller decided with minimal surface area that was at once ergonomically and strategically placed, he’d have the chair to he wished to attain. What chair was that? One that made you forget the object that was allowing you to sit, one that gave you the feeling of floating on air. Sound comfortable – does it stand up? With thin memory foam cushions and a lovely minimalistic overall design? You bet your biffy.

Not one, not two, but three floating panels give you the experience Moller envisioned. Ech of these panels works together with the frame of the chair to give you a uniquely iconic posture. And there’s a bonus! Due to the construction method employed in the creation of this chair, there are no fasteners visible to the un-inquisitive user. Clean and fresh.

Designer: Adam Moller

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The following, if I’d not pixelated the first photo, would be considered NSFW. Every once in a while here at Yanko Design we’re submitted a project that is so very adult in nature that we cannot post it in full lest our supporters all bail ship and call us design heretics. Furthermore, this is a PG-13 blog at its most scandalous. That said, the project contained in this post is called Adela [Erotic Chair]. It’s made of fiberglass, polyurethane, and vinyl plastic. The designer is Andres Amaya, and I’ll leave the many uses for the chair to you.

Designer: Andres Amaya of Bala Studio

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Its a convenient backpack one minute, and the next it becomes this awesome tushy-friendly chair. Think picnics, fishing trips and campsthe Bag Hug Chair is for those happy occasions. A little creative imagination may edge you to using it in your tent-styled home! Super clever and super neat!

Designer: Moonjo Jo

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I have a serious space crunch in my bedroom, so I have opted out of keeping any chairs or seating options in the room. Versatile furniture like the Helios work for people like me who can get the combo of a bedside table, a chair and a lamp; all at one go. Its a very tricky combination that can easily go bust, but what makes it work here, is the simple and kitsch approach.

Designers: Spigoli Vivi & Andrea Bartolucci

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With a very creative name like Twenty5ive, you can expect nothing but some awesome madness by designer duo Melvin Ong & Yuri Kim. While Melvin sticks to insect-inspiration, Yuri explores durability and kitsch with lights. Have a look.

Itsy Bitsy Rocking Stool by Melvin is a take on the namesake nursery rhyme; hence the spider legs provide the rocking action.

The last three pictures are of the CANdle Lamp by Yuri, it features a sustainable design with non fragile and recycle being the keywords. Crafted from an aluminum case with a built-in LED lamp, this light adapts being a spotlight and an ambient light with minor positioning changes.

Designers: Melvin Ong & Yuri Kim for Twenty5ive

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What stands on one foot, is usually very useful, but upon its intended function is functionless? Trick question! Nothing is functionless. This is “The Balance,” and it stands on one leg OR can be used as a chair. Designer Pascal Anson has a trick to play on all of us and its called PERFECT CUTS. Three very accurate, precise cuts to be exact, and a very deep message one doesn’t often see in industrial design that’s often very far away from so-called “useless” artistic expression.

You’ve got to watch the video below to get the whole idea behind this project AND to see how it functions. You can understand when I write: it stands on one leg, or two legs, as opposed to four. But until you see Anson set the chair up yourself, you wont understand the magic.

And on top of that, Anson comes across as a really deep dude, which is pretty awesome, and not always something you can learn. Lucky dog.

Designer: Pascal Anson

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This is such a clever idea, especially if you live in a small apartment and need to stash up on multifunctional gear. Heres Lean, a chair with rails for its backnothing path breaking so far; but drag it to your radiator and hitch it to lean onto it, and hey! you have a stand to dry your clothes! Super neat and super useful, especially if made with the right kinda materials.

Designers: Eunggyu Lee, Junghoon Baek, Sangmin Yoon & Samuel Sari, Seonggeun Chio

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This is such a clever idea, especially if you live in a small apartment and need to stash up on multifunctional gear. Heres Lean, a chair with rails for its backnothing path breaking so far; but drag it to your radiator and hitch it to lean onto it, and hey! you have a stand to dry your clothes! Super neat and super useful, especially if made with the right kinda materials.

Designers: Eunggyu Lee, Junghoon Baek, Sangmin Yoon & Samuel Sari, Seonggeun Chio

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When I was a kid, I had a toy made of plastic and string. It was a pile of body parts all connected by the string. There was a button on the bottom of this toy and at the push of this button, the spring would be sprung, the string would be taut, and all the pieces would be held together tight, revealing Mickey Mouse! I can’t remember a single place where this lovely concept had been used, until now, in a chair!

This is the “Miniature Lazy Chair,” designed by Fresh West and hand assembled by Laikingland. The Miniature Lazy Chair is a 1:6 scale version of the original Lazy Chair which is brought to exhibitions and constantly met with a pleased crowd. One push of the lever on the stand and the chair collapses. A few moments pass, and the chair is pulled back upright in whichever order it happened to fall.

This chair represents several shared interests between Fresh West and Laikingland: movement, craftsmanship, and playfulness. Fun stuff!

Designer: Fresh West for Laikingland

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When I was a kid, I had a toy made of plastic and string. It was a pile of body parts all connected by the string. There was a button on the bottom of this toy and at the push of this button, the spring would be sprung, the string would be taut, and all the pieces would be held together tight, revealing Mickey Mouse! I can’t remember a single place where this lovely concept had been used, until now, in a chair!

This is the “Miniature Lazy Chair,” designed by Fresh West and hand assembled by Laikingland. The Miniature Lazy Chair is a 1:6 scale version of the original Lazy Chair which is brought to exhibitions and constantly met with a pleased crowd. One push of the lever on the stand and the chair collapses. A few moments pass, and the chair is pulled back upright in whichever order it happened to fall.

This chair represents several shared interests between Fresh West and Laikingland: movement, craftsmanship, and playfulness. Fun stuff!

Designer: Fresh West for Laikingland

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From the pits of imagination comes this! The non-regularly angled chair! Yes, from the bent mind of designer Sung-Hyeop Seo comes this chair whose main objective is to bend regularity just that little bit more than average. Tired of square after square, perfect circle after perfect circle in furniture making, Sung-Hyeop created this chair, the “OBC 01″ to resist! OBC 01 stands for Oblique Chair number one! Design change begins here!

Now, this isn’t the first chair to ever have a non-regular angle. Duh. There are chairs and chairs and chairs that do that already. It’s the thought of the thing – the stripped-down look, feel, and direct sitting function, all of this, that turns the mind to the obliqueness of it all. All of it, all of it so oblique.

Size/ H 730, W 665, D 780 (mm)
Material / Wood

Designer: Sung-Hyeop Seo

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I hate to be the first to tell you, but making furniture out of the skin and bones of human beings is just flat out illegal. Basically everywhere. So just forget it. What we’ve got here is almost as amazing. A lot less terrifying at least. This is the “Skin-bone Chair Collection” by Lin Jinhong. Made to replicate in a non-grotesque way the skin, muscle, and bone of the body. Not necessarily of a human being, but let’s just say that to make it as amazing as possible.

Now what Jinhong COULD have done here is make it out of deer bones. Deer are considered less than respectable in most societies in the world, so we can do basically whatever we want with their guts and such, and their blood, bones, just everything turned into stools and such.

These chairs look pretty sensual though, yes? I bet they’d be pretty comfortable, too. They’d go great on my black metal porch or my no-light-allowed sun room. Blacker than black!

Designer: Lin Jinhong

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