The chair is of extreme antiquity and simplicity, although for many centuries and indeed for thousands of years it was an article of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use. It was not, in fact, until the 16th century that it became common anywhere. The chest, the bench and the stool were until then the ordinary seats of everyday life, and the number of chairs which have survived from an earlier date is exceedingly limited The artist wanted to be faithful to the animal’s physique and the natural majesty of its movements, therefore Maximo attended to each physical detail of the octopus in order to make the animal the unique protagonist of the whole piece. The “Cut Chair” has only one unbroken leg, and creates an optical illusion that it’s about to fall. However, a plate concealed by a thick carpet allows a robust cantilevered seat. Chair made from hundreds of pencils. Designer has taken soft perishable sardines and found a way to use them as the building material in his most recent project.
The individual components have been created through a process of lost wax casting, creating solid aluminum fish from their edible counterparts. This arthropodic stool looks like a science experiment that escaped and headed straight for the bar. For the campaign “The Empty Chair”, designer made the symbolic empty chair, to support Amnesty in their fight for freedom of expression. “Designer takes the common shopping cart and reapproriates it,transforming it into an object of leisure and design.” [1] (Designer: Mike Bouchet) “The design satisfies both elements of functional and decorative design. The seats appears like a silhouette of a coffee mug, whose handle can be used as a hook for draping a jacket or hanging a bag.” [2] (Designer: Sunhan Kwon) “Made of deep soft folds of handmade microfibre fabric stitched into a steel base, the chair is available in Red, Moss Green, Light Green & Yellow. This lounge chair will make you feel like fairytale Thumbelina in a beautiful flower.”
[3] (Designer: Kenneth Cobonpue) “The ‘seatub’ chair combines the idea of relaxing in a chair and a bathtub“ [4] (Designer: Ki Kim)A fantasy of optically excellent proportions. These chairs float between naturalistic and industrial on a bed of impossibility.” [5] (Designers: Christian Andrés Parra Sánchez, Juliana Andrea Mosquera.) “Designed for Italian furniture company “Casamania”, the chair features a metal structure in which ‘over-sized yarn’ is woven through to create a softness. the main base and seat are tightly woven, gradually getting looser in their stitching along the length of the chaise lounge, eventually fanning out over the floor making it an object that stands between carpet and furniture.” [6] (Designer: Sophie De Vocht) “Designer started this series as a graduation project for the Eindhoven Academy and has since continued working on it.” [7] (Designer: Sebastian Brajkovic) Light and sensational chair design. “Have you ever experienced to dream that you are going to the beach?
Breeze, the sound of waves and the sandy beach, these make our feeling so good. Rocking on the Beach helps you imagine the one of these experiences in your home. The plastic and pipe shape is designed for the best seashore sound, which is researched around the Netherlands seaside. The shape of chair with full of pipes gives a strong impression as an electronic circuit or urban city landscape.” [8] (Designers: Joon&Jung Designteller) Tunnel chairs are created by bending metal tubes, then wrapping elastic bands around, closing with velcro. “Ever look at macro photos of water splashes or super slow mo’ video of a droplet slamming into the surface sending ripples across a lake? There’s a moment in that 1/10 of a second when the impact creates a crater or sorts, as if you were small enough, it could neatly cup you. Inspired designer Michael Wendel created a 1/8th scale model called the Splash Lounge Chair, big enough for us to sit in.” [9] (Designer: Michael L. Wendel) “The theory behind designing the Selfportrait Chair is very honest and simple.
As an introvert, graduate student Ka-Lai Chan found it difficult to express her emotions lest her peers ridicule her. The stifled emotions grew like a nagging tumor and are seen as those odd blobs on this chair. Rarely do we come across an emotional side to a design accurately represented as this!” [10] (Designer: Ka-Lai Chan) “Souviens toi que tu vas mourir” (remember that you will die) chair by Pool, from the “Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), the New French Domestic Landscape” exhibition at the Milan Design Furniture. Taking the chair archetype and placing within it chairs that are progressively smaller. Each chair has hand cut grooves on the inside edges of its seat frame as well as notches in the seat back. These grooves range from 1/2” wide to 1/8” wide. The mechanism works so that the pegs fit into the grooves of the chair one size bigger and slides into place so that the horizontal edge between the chair seat and back line up. The simple mechanism allows the chairs to be taken apart and put together with ease.
Holy (ritualistic) brahmin with deformed cow, earning $20 per week, 20121 of 13Disappearing Trades: Portraits of India's Obsolete ProfessionsIt seemed like a simple task: buy some patio furniture for our old house in Delhi. I had moved there to become TIME’s bureau chief in the height of summer 2008, and the wide terrazzo veranda was the coolest spot on the property. After hours of searching Delhi’s furniture bazaars and high-end malls, my husband and I came back empty-handed. I sat down on the dusty marble, exhausted, and fantasized that someone might just deliver a table and chairs to the gate. Then, as if by magic, the bell rang. It was the jhuri-wala, the cane-furniture maker, making his rounds in the neighborhood. We invited him in, leafed through his binder of faded sample pictures and within a few days had a glass-topped round table and four chairs made of lacquered bamboo, cut, shaped and bound by hand.The jhuri-walas — and all the other craftsmen and tradespeople who populated the bylanes of our neighborhood — can make the housing colonies of India’s megacities feel like its villages.
They are the subject of Supranav Dash’s photo essay Marginal Trades — among them are honey collectors and wood-cutters, blacksmiths and potters. Most inherited their professions, and the tools of their trades haven’t changed in generations. But they, too, are part of India’s economic transformation. Many families now prefer to buy plastic chairs rather than cane; some of these trades will soon die out. The wheat-grinder’s son manages a fast-food stall; a son of one of the washer-men is a chauffeur. “They never changed, they never updated themselves, and then suddenly you had this juncture when globalization is going to hit so bad, everything is changing,” Dash says.Dash began this project as a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He turned to photography after years as a painter in Kolkata, his hometown, and as a photographer in Mumbai. Some of that early training is apparent; Dash used four different hand-painted backdrops. Under his thesis advisor, the painter Billy Sullivan, Dash studied the formal portraiture of the photographers Eugène Atget (Les Petits Métiers) and Irving Penn (Small Trades), who documented the trades and professions of London, Paris and New York in the 1950s.
He researched Penn’s original platinum and palladium prints at the archives of the Museum of Modern Art and looked for representations of India’s trades and professions. The ethnographic work of John F. Watson and John W. Kaye (The People of India, 1868-75) informs Dash’s work but he did not want to replicate Watson and Kaye’s effort to render India’s multidimensional caste structure in a fixed taxonomy. “I did not want to follow that,” Dash says. “I wanted to inform people about what has happened and what is going to happen.”Dash found his subjects in and around Kolkata. “In my summer and winter breaks I would go back to India, find a busy street and set up on a corner, make a makeshift studio, put two people in charge of the lights. Then, I would go hunting. Out of every 100 people, maybe 20 would accept.”His biggest challenge was persuading them to leave their familiar surroundings. “They’re used to the concept of tourists coming in and taking snapshots in the street.
But the moment you want to extract them and bring them to your own confined space, shoot, put them under lighting scenarios, they are, like, afraid,” Dash says. “They would say, like, Why don’t you photograph me right here where I’m standing? Why do you need to bring me and all my stuff back to your place? What if you beat me up and take all my stuff? Because the system does that to them. The system has abused them so much... A corrupted police officer and myself could be the same thing to them.”Some of those who did agree to sit for portraits mentioned the Indian government’s massive new national ID program, which had been collecting biometric data at the same time that Dash was taking his portraits. “They would just mention that their photographs were also being taken [by the program], that the government wants data.” So far, more than 450 million people have been enrolled in India’s national ID program; the program’s chairman hopes to have 600 million Indians enrolled by 2014.When my family and I left Delhi in 2012, we sold much of what we had acquired with the help of an auction agent, a freelance buyer and seller of household goods.