Chairs!

the simple idea of a chair,
can be carried out in so many different ways!
why must a table have all the same chairs?
here..

hell yes!

You can do what you want.
The opportunity's on.
And if you find a new way
You can do it today.
You can make it all true.
And you can make it undo....

Well if you want to sing out sing out.
And if you want to be free be free.
'Cause there's a million things to be. You know that there are.

And if you want to live high live high.
And if you want to live low live low.
'Cause there's a million ways to go.
You know that there are.
You know that there are.
You know that there are.
You know that there are.

Well if you want to say yes say yes.
And if you want to say no say no.
Cause there's a million ways to go.
You know that there are.
And if you want to be me be me.

Chairs! So many chairs!
You know that there are.
You know that there are.
inspired by Maude... here..




1. Mary Heilman, 2004
2. Robert Wilson
3. Paolo Deganello
4. Antti Nurmesniemi, 1970
5. Sally Nencini 'Mayo Chair'


(text by cat stevens )








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Portait
of a Chair:

"the deck chair"
(go here)

with summer around the corner, i've begun my
search for the ultimate deck chair...
and with milan just ending, i wonder
to myself, how many times can
a chair be reinvented....
onwards! aka, take a seat in the sun!

perfection to me!

Portait of a Chair:

"the deck chair"
(go here)


1. Damien Hirst deck chair! these are kinda amazing.
2. Crate and Barrel...
3. Deck Chair Dreams, via Royal Parks Foundation.. go here.
4. Uknown black deck chair, looking for the beach.
5. Battista and Gino Giudici , pair of deck chairs from Lido Swimming Club, Switzerland.
c. 1945 (where is this swimmig club, and how can i get there quick!)
6. Deck chair inspired art! unknown...




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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.







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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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Tejo Remy René Veenhuizen
Atelier RemyVeenhuizen

Laminated bamboo, the new re-discovered material currently
used by the ECO friendly generation of designers.
Tejo Remy and Rene Veenhuizen are the forerunners in recycling and using ECO friendly materials in their designs. Famous for the 'Chest of Drawers' and 'Ragged Chair' this is one of the pre-production prototypes of 6 chairs to develop the design and concept.


go here for more info, via design addict.

portrait
of
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portrait
of a
chair.