the sea pt 3.

"I feel enlarged and encouraged. "
- Frank Llyod Wright

"I wanted to get in touch with something more primitive
than my wandering and skipping brain."
- Vija Clemins






the sea pt 1.
"the sea is a long, long way from me
I'd go there if I had the time
but lying here will do just fine" - low


VIJA CELMINS: "Well, I found the work of the photorealists a bit dead, but I got interested in the photograph. I used the photograph as a guide, so I would not have to worry about the image. They are images within an image within an image -drawings of two-dimensional images. I was trying to bring the images back to life by putting them in a real space that you confront. I don't think anyone else was making work like this at the time, not clippings of disastrous events. Now they look a bit ridiculous to me.

They look almost too contrived. Of course, I didn't really think like that at the time. I remember thinking that the making of the image was reason enough to do it. It was about finding a touch; a way that the image could sit on the surface. The whole point for me was that even though art has been through a million things, I wanted to get in touch with something more primitive than my wandering and skipping brain." (here)


Mike Wallace: When you go out into a big forest with towering pines and [experience] almost a feeling of awe that frequently you do get in the presence of nature...do you not feel insignificant? Do you not feel small?

Frank Llyod Wright: On the contrary, I feel large. I feel enlarged and encouraged. Intensified. More powerful.




two into one: background art by vija clemins, chairs by frank llyod wright.
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chair psychology
pt. 23

"when chairs become distant strangers"














chair psychology
pt. 23

"when chairs become distant strangers"


1. Ettore Sottsass arm chair, from unknown source....
2. West Street Chair by Case Furniture






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good afternoon travelers,
we are planning on a some nice air ahead,
and a travel time of approximately 3 hours and 21 minutes.
no need to buckle, the sky is ours today.




































































good morning travelers,
we are planning on a some nice air ahead,
and a travel time of approximately 3 hours and 21 minutes.
no need to buckle, the sky is ours today.

(if airplanes had seats like this. i just might cry.)


1. unknown..... does it get any better than this i ask?
2. Jørn Utzon, Aurora Reclining Chair and Footstool
3. Panton for Vitra. oh yeah!
4. Marcel Breuer, 1965 chair


currently inspired by this.....











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eventually
we
return
to
(light)
the source.

























eventually
we
return
to
(light)
the source.


Manfred Kielnhofer’s Tube Chairs Made from Recycled Newspapers These environmentally friendly chairs by Manfred Kielnhofer are made from recycled newspapers and are surprisingly stylish. They’re also durable – a few of the chairs were made in 2002 and have retained their shape nicely despite having been for various events along the way. Tube construction lends the chairs a modern, futuristic look. …

Seen at gallery Artpark,
Light Art Biennale Austria2010





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3 chairs
(1780's 1900's)
from
Obsolete






































3 chairs
from
Obsolete, Venice, CA. ( go here)

1. 1780-1810 Primitive adjustable wing back armchair stripped of fabric and brought to the original form
2. 1770-1780 Fireplace primitive windsor, low to the ground, tall back, hand made, unique
3.England, 1880-1900, Unusual leather barber chair with wood surround, shaped carved legs with original casters













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"So every chair should be practical."

-Adolf Loos

"So every chair should be practical. '
If manufacturers made only practical chairs,
then people would be able to furnish their rooms perfectly without
the assistance of the interior designer.

Perfect furniture produces perfect rooms."

Adolf Loos, Architect
1870 - 1933,
excerpt from "Ornament and Crime"






image:
Constantin and Laurene Boym
Chair No. 2 USA, 2009

Good taste really bothers us a lot.












We are not at war against any aesthetic movement. We act for ourselves without any will to prophesize. Our hope is to give people the feeling of freedom in the choice of forms.

Good taste really bothers us a lot. What we care about is implanting doubt. We don't have any rules. What interests us is a personal and artisanal putting together of things.

- Mattia Bonetti








Mattia Bonetti
"Alu"chair, 2009
lacquered aluminum, upholstery with applique

when
a chair
becomes
a puzzle.


























when a
chair becomes
a puzzle.




1. Chair by L. Kozma , Hungary circa 1930's Black and white painted occasional chair
2. Martino Gamper


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Paul Mathieu
































"French designer, Paul Mathieu, based both in New York and Aix-en-Provence, exhibits his signature style in his furniture collection for Ralph Pucci International.

Mathieu is a progressive designer who gained his reputation through both his international interrior design projects, as well, as, his product designs for companies such as Ecart.

An unmistakable benchmark is evident in the graceful and elegant modernism infused in Mathieu's work. His furniture combines the unassuming harmony of nature, blending sinuous curves with tailored geometry. Mathieu's designs combine richness and depth of woods with the comfort of upholstery and with detail. This results in a refined statement of clean, luxurious simplicity."

via ralph pucci

Willy Guhl

achieving the most
with the minimum of effort

Willy Guhl, 1954

Mr. Guhl's trademark rocking chair, which he designed in 1954,
was made of a single piece of material, bent to complete a loop.
It was designed according to his motto of "achieving the most with the minimum of effort."

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Specific
Los Angeles,
June 5, 2010







PLAY: SUSANNA MAING & TODOSOMETHING
Opening Reception Saturday, June 5, 5-8 PM
Exhibition dates: June 5, 2010 - July 2, 2010

Brooks Hudson Thomas is pleased to announce his second exhibition of new work by emerging artists and designers at his new project space, SPECIFIC. What will become an important new chair design (and dozens of variations of it) by Chad Petersen and Dakota Witzenburg, the team behind TODOSOMETHING, is being shown for the first time with new paintings by Los Angeles artist Susanna Maing.



Susanna Maing, honored with a solo exhibition at Angles Gallery in Santa Monica in 2006, has been in the studio developing her practice and SPECIFIC is proud to be the first to show her new body of work. Maing and TODOSOMETHING are both working hard at play in their endeavors and we think you should keep your eyes on their very bright futures.

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SPECIFIC is the new project space curated by Brooks Hudson Thomas. Operating in the gap that exists between a shop and a gallery, SPECIFIC is passionate about exhibiting contemporary design and contemporary art together in a way that has never been seen in Los Angeles.

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working
with
the
line:
memory
blue

symbolic
abundance
through
absence.

the blue line : memory

1. ginger wolfe suarez, ltd los angeles, more on her work here..
2. innit designs, acapulco rocker



ltd is pleased to announce Memory Objects, the first Los Angeles solo exhibition of emerging sculptor, Ginger Wolfe-Suarez. Wolfe-Suarez explores the psychology of built space and perceptions of place while re-engaging notions of sitespecificity. Approaching fragility and impermanence, the material, textural, and odiferous with the same complexity as site and scale, Wolfe-Suarezʼs sculptures operate phenomenologically, the exhibition space reformed into a temporal and experiential zone for the viewerʼs body. Utilizing a material palette of wood, rock, paint, transparencies, light, yarn, as well as various odors and scents, “Memory Objects” includes recent sculptures and installations questioning how moments are made physical.

Thos Moser

Thos Moser "A thread runs through Thos. Moser furniture that ties the discipline of classic Japanese joinery to the sentimentality of the Arts and Crafts movement of a century ago. It also ties the untutored aesthetics of the American Shaker period of the 1830s and ‘40s to the sophisticated and urbane German Bauhaus of the 1920s."






















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CHAIRS.

oh,
how
i wish....

Oh, how I wish I was hanging in Milan this week for Design Week.
Possibly next year I'll be there....
Luckily, with modern technology, twitter, blogs, etc, it's almost like being there....
Almost. (less liquor, more arm cramps.)
I'm already, seeing tons of new exciting things being posted,
like this chair by Patricia Urquiola...
(I believe I saw this on Dwell's twitter feed!)






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"when
is a chair
not a chair?"







Roy McMakin
When is a chair not a chair?
Written by Roy McMakin,
Contribution by John Baldessari, Michael Darling, Lisa Eisner and Michael Ned Holte
Pub Date: April 2010

The long-anticipated comprehensive monograph on the art world’s most admired designer. Roy McMakin is at once an artist, furniture designer, and architect. His seemingly simple chairs, tables, dressers, and other furniture pieces at first appear childlike and often whimsical; upon closer inspection these pieces evoke contemporary art references as well as domestic archetypal forms. Long a favorite among the art-world cognoscenti and tastemakers, McMakin’s creations seamlessly merge grandma’s furniture with modern design and contemporary art. Each piece of furniture, interior, or art installation is infused with rigor as well as humor through tweaked proportions, innately sculptural forms, and craftsmanship of the highest order. This long-awaited volume collects McMakin’s most important creations and commissions from his thirty-year career.


c/o rizzoli usa here.







.

Chair #1
Peter
Eisenman

contained chaos!

Peter Eisenman

(b. Newark, New Jersey 1932)

Peter Eisenman was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1932. He studied at Cornell and Columbia Universities and then at Cambridge University in England. He taught at Cambridge, Princeton and the Cooper Union in New York, where he was founder and director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

Until recently, few of his designs had been built. As a result, most attention has focused on his architectural ideas which attempt to create contextually disconnected architecture.

Eisenman has always sought somewhat obscure parallels between his architectural works and philosophical or literary theory. His earlier houses were "generated" from a transformation of forms related to the tenuous relationship of language to an underlying structure.

Eisenman's latter works show a sympathy with the "anti-humanist" ideas of deconstructionism.

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Chairs, bistro chairs.

Hans Wegner 1914-2007
and
Michel Thonet 17997-1871
more bistro chairs.

"The chair does not exist.
The good chair is a task one is never completely done with."
-Hans Wegner

Wegner



















"The Wishbone Chair is a light and extremely comfortable chair. Wegner designed the chair for Carl Hansen already in 1949. Still today, it is by far the most popular of Wegner’s chairs. A true classic."

Thonet















more Wegner








more Thonet


"Thonet. With the invention of bentwood furniture, Michael Thonet laid the cornerstone of industrial production. He was born in 1796 in Boppard/Rhine, where he opened his own workshop in 1819. In 1842 Prince Metternich summoned him to Vienna. Together with his sons he founded a company in 1849; within a short amount of time it became globally successful and expanded rapidly. More than 865,000 bentwood chairs per year were produced in today's Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia. Michael Thonet died in Vienna in 1871; his sons then took over the company. During the 1930s, Thonet was committed to the construction and technology of tubular steel furniture and quickly became the largest manufacturer in the world. World War II represented a harsh caesura: the plants in the eastern regions were disowned. The facility in Frankenberg (Germany), founded in 1889, has been the corporate headquarter and production site since then. Thonet is still a family-owned business and is managed today by the 5th generation. The company manufactures bentwood and tubular steel classics as well as new models, which are developed in cooperation with famous architects and designers."




text taken from Thonet site.
go here for more info..

black
leather.







































3 Chairs
by
Jacques Adnet.

c/o Rago Arts Auction house.

new
ways
to
sit.





























































new
ways
to sit

1. pierre sala, 1983
2. paul mccarthy
3. anne cecile rappa, poofs
4. kenneth smythe,

America's
Decorator:
Paul McCobb

Paul McCobb
table lamp
North Craft Lighting Co. USA,
c. 1952

two Paul McCobb upholstered armchairs on left
















more McCobb chairs on left.

"Paul McCobb (1917-69) an American furniture designer and decorator, was active in Massachusetts and Michigan.

McCobb, like his contemporaries Harvey Probber and George Nelson, helped introduce Americans to modular furniture.

McCobb, who never received any formal design training, first established a studio in 1945. He worked primarily as a decorator and retail display designer, eventually turning his attention to furniture: by 1950, B.G. Mosberg was marketing his stylish, affordable Planner Group.

Other, more luxurious collections followed, including the Directional, Predictor Linear, and Perimeter lines, all produced by Winchendon Furniture and marketed by McCobb himself.

McCobb's pieces were flexible and practical, designed to meet the needs of post World War II middle-class lifestyles. For example, his "living walls", complete with moveable room dividers and storage systems, allowed for maximum efficiency in limited spaces.

He became a household name in the 1950's, earning himself the nickname "America's Decorator". His work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Merchandise Mart in Chicago.

McCobb's pieces were flexible and practical, designed to meet the needs of post World War II middle-class lifestyles. For example, his "living walls", complete with moveable room dividers and storage systems, allowed for maximum efficiency in limited spaces.

He became a household name in the 1950's, earning himself the nickname "America's Decorator". His work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. "

taken from here, School of Architecture, University of Illinois