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Marcel Breuer’s Wassily
The Wassily Chair was first built in 1926, by Marcel Breuer at the Bauhaus institution in Dessau, Germany. Breuer found his inspiration for the chair in the bent form of a bicycle handlebar, available for the first time in steel due to a development in technology. full article
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The Barcelona chair was exclusively designed for the German Pavilion, that country’s entry for the International Exposition of 1929, which was hosted by Barcelona, Spain. The design resulted from collaboration between the famous Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his longtime partner and companion, architect and designer Lilly Reich, whose contributions have only recently been acknowledged.[citation needed] An icon of modernism, the chair’s design was inspired by the campaign and folding chairs of ancient times.
Finn Juhl
Visited the Danish Design Center in Copenhagen and saw their exhibit called “Living Wood.” There was a large room filled with fantastic furniture designed in wood. There were immaculate specimens from Thonet to Eames, but one of my favorites was the Chieftain chair by Finn Juhl in 1949.
Finn Juhl’s furniture designs are simple, yet extraordinary. A clear example of this duality is in this sofa design below (image found at ModCulture). There are a number of great images of other Finn Juhl designs at Architonic and arcspace and images from his house at Materialicious and MidCenturyModernist.com (I really like Juhl’s art collection!)
Chieftain Chair Finn Juhl
Finn Juhl (1912–1989) was trained in Architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen (1934) and studied for ten years in the offices of Danish architect Vilhelm Lauritzen. He was, however, a self-taught furniture designer. His designs were primarily for his own use, until his architecture office became known for its unique and sculptural furniture. In 1951, Juhl was given the challenge and honor of design the interior of Trusteeship Council Chamber at the UN headquarters in New York. The result of this project was heavily praised and generated awareness of a Danish Modern furniture style. (Biographical information from Danish-Furniture.com and r20thcentury.com)
Above: Maman Abdurachim prefers … The Thonet
… to me the original Thonet is still my clasic favourite chair.
Sam_Maloof_rocker_1994 – Posted by Jeremy Kane Via Linkedin
Nick Garrett’s fav: Kartell Frilly Modern Chair by Patricia Urquiola
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Snug from Clayton Tugunon.With an onus on creating relaxing furniture pieces, coconut trees were used to create this gorgeous Pacific Ocean-inspired furniture collection from Clayton Tugunon.
Above: Anna Chair – Nick Garrett
Below Recliner 004 Nick Garrett
Above: Gert Eussen’s Potato chair http://www.behance.net/visualprojects
Edwin Napoleon Chair
 Knoll : KnollStudio : Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman (clipped to polyvore.com) |
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Finn Juhl THE chair
Thats my favorite
Hi Nick:
There are too many great designs of the chair, but to me the original Thonet is still my
clasic favourite chair.
I also love FLO chair designed by Patricia Urquiola for Driade-Italy. This chair got the design award during the Koln Fair years ago. Unfortunately I don’t know how to attach
the picts of this chair. This chair is produced in the factory where I worked for years
in Java, Indonesia before.
Never too many Maman there are 6 billion of us to satisfy one way or another… our tastes are infinite 🙂
How about to open discussion on the ugly chairs that had ever designed by the famous designers…..:-)……btw, your ANNA chair looks wonderful Nick… Congratulations..!!
Thank you Maman. Yes it just happened along last Sunday… not always like that eh!
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The Edwin Lutyens Napoleon chair combines great comfort and great design.
Apart from a healthy dose of self promo guys what inspired this chair and what do you see as yr favourite outside that C-zone?
Still love the Eames lounge and ottoman.
John Lewis have developed a fairly nice twist on the Eames…
Thanks John have posted the Knoll – yep it is a real headturner!
Barcelona & Wassily are hard to beat but for real comfort try the Saarinen Womb chair & ottoman.
A quantum leap for it’s time when you imagine dreaming this up in the twenties!!