Manicured Chairs For Droog Gets A Manicure
Product designer Marian Bantjes is shaking things up in the normally prosaic outdoor furniture scene by employing 80 manicurists to use their skills to decorate chairs manufactured by Droog! The “Manicured Chairs” highlight a quirky design trajectory and also bring in a fresh stimuli thanks to the pretty and diverse motifs.
The poetic forms of the birch furniture by Jolyon Yates may indeed inspire verses of admiration. Contemporary, organic Ode chairs; this stunning furniture is handcrafted in Northumberland, England. The chairs are stripped back to their essential, flowing lines, and interpreted into natural birch laminate forms. Shown here are chairs including the charming Leaf stool, the easy-going Savannah rocker and the tranquil Ocean rocker. Like a piece of art or sculpture, the Ode chair will add style and grace to any home, urban or rural. Finished in satin lacquer, the beauty of the grained birch wood is a gift of nature. Contact Jolyon Yates to find out more about their Ode furniture collection.
As for unique chair designs, BRF offers a modern range of unique chairs you’re looking for to accent your home – the Eklipse. A self-confident piece for the user to explore, this chair design is a simple yet ingenious concept. Choose the abstract, artistic form of an oval, or an accommodating armchair complete with armrests. Designs by Sylvia Colombini and Zoran Jedrejcic, Eklipse chairs push the boundaries between art and furniture. The unique shape looks stylish grouped in sociable clusters. The removable covers are available in a wide range of fabric or leather options, so why not try a grouping in different colors and textures? Contact BRF for more on the uncompromisingly modern Eklipse.
V Chairs
Verikon Furniture has created 2 somewhat unique chairs – theShelleyand theLobster. In some way it draws it inspiration from the Famous “Ægget by Arne Jacobsen”, but it is still so different that they are unique in their own rights.
The designers are currently making a footstool and a sidetable to go with the chairs. And, they will be available in selected stores by mid-march
Due to today’s technology, enormous amounts of people are spending most of their working hours behind a desk in an uncomfortable office chair. Because of this desk bound lifestyle, more and more individuals are becoming overweight, out of shape, and developing other health problems.
Although a sedentary lifestyle causes health problems in itself, an uncomfortable office chair causes a completely new arena of problems. Hours upon hours in an uncomfortable chair brings about back problems, neck pains, and just overall body aches from bad posture.
Below are guidelines that can help you select the right office chair, therefore reducing body aches, stiffness, and pains.
Buying an office chair is similar to buying a car. Would you buy a car without test-driving it? The same applies to selecting your chair, you need to sit down and feel it out. Again, just as your car, you want comfort you will spend numerous hours in your car commuting, shopping and running errands. The same philosophy applies to your office furniture. You will be spending numerous hours in that chair so choose wisely.
Below are guidelines as to what you should look for when purchasing your next office chair.
Back support
Your new chair should provide adequate back support. The back support of the chair should also be adjustable to fit properly to your back. The back support of the chair should remain the same as you move and recline in your chair. A good office chair with proper back support will improve your posture and therefore eliminate or reduce back pain and stiffness. Selecting an office chair without adequate back support can cause back problems that could stay with you your entire life.
Seating
The padding and design of the seat should be considered. The front of the seat should have a rounded edge. A straight horizontal front will cut off circulation on the backside of the knees. A good tip is that you should be able to slide your fingers between the inside of legs and the front edge of the seat.
Width of the seat and armrests
You need to fit into the chair. If you have to squeeze into the chair then it does not fit, no matter how comfortable it may seem once you are seated. There should be room between the armrests and your body. In addition, the armrests need to interact with the desk. A good office chair will have adjustable armrests. What good are armrests if they are not useable or uncomfortable to use. Quality armrests can help with tasks like reading and writing, and taking pressure and tension off the neck and shoulders.
Height Adjustments
People are not all the same height therefore, your office chair must have a height adjustment. The specifications to adjust your office chair and to promote good posture are as follows: thighs should be horizontal to the ground while both feet are on the ground and wrists should be straight while typing
If you cannot find an office chair height that allows both of the above, you may want to find a way to alter the height of your keyboard so that you can have straight wrists while typing and your body is aligned properly with the chair and the floor.
Stability
Your chair must be stable. Your chair tipping over when you are in it is not funny. Serious and permanent injury can occur. Look for a chair on wheels that swivels and a five-point base that will not flip you over on your head when you recline.
So, take time you are out shopping for your new office furniture, take this article with you. Once you have decided on your new office chair, make sure it possesses all of the above features. As mentioned earlier, a good office chair will improve posture and eliminate aches and pains.
German gallery Helmrinderknecht has just opened Chairs&Fireworks, a solo show of Catalan designer Martí Guixé, exhibiting three new chairs from his ongoing ‘statement chairs” cycle, alongside a small collection of pieces about the “neglected subject of fireworks.”
Pictured above is Respect Cheap Furniture:
The monobloc plastic chair is a phenomenon, which has already attracted and inspired many designers and artists and in fact contains many criteria of good design: it is cheap, democratic, robust, reasonable in technical production and convenient. But the classical monobloc chair has a very bad reputation. Following his work “Stop Discrimination of Cheap Furniture” from 2004, Guixé moves a step ahead in the defense of the monobloc chairs and postulates “Respect Cheap Furniture”. The “Respect cheap furniture” chair will be availabe in a limited editon of 50.
Centaurus:
“Centaurus”, the third chair can be seen as a real designer chair. As designer chairs are often associated with the reputation and the person of the designer, Guixé’s “Centaurus” chair brings chair and designer as close together as possible: here the designer becomes an integral physical part of the chair; subject and object become one and build a “designer chair.” The “Centaurus” chair is available in a limited edition of 10.
One more after the jump.
Franco Albini and Franca Helg introduced their three-piece Tre Pezzi in 1959 as an update on the The comfortable proportions, crescent shapes, and tubular-steel base endure. However the latter, originally painted black, can now also be ordered in polished chrome, and the wool fabric, formerly offered only in red, now comes in other bright colors and a selection of neutrals.
Designer Tom Price has created this chair by heating and pressing a seat-shaped former into a ball of polypropylene rope.
The rope begins to liquify as it comes into contact with the heated former and, as it cools, it sets in the shape of a seat creating a contrast in form and texture to the remaining rope. No additional material has been added to make the seat – it is all made from melted rope.
Why stop at rope? Why not just pile together some garbage and make a seat out of that? Or melt down an existing chair? Or your grandma? The possibilities are endless!
Community: Nervous high-rise office workers
Project: Emergency gear chair
In a time of terrorism the humble office worker feels exposed, a reserve soldier in a global war. Ecco’s designers equipped their simple-looking office chair with a fireproof hooded vest, first-aid supplies, rope and sharp-edged tools. Armrests double as crowbars or shovel handles, and the chair back serves as a shovel. The hard-topped hooded vest sports a gas mask, battery, embedded LED lamp, heartbeat sensor that transmits the victim’s location, and FM radio for receiving safety instructions. If the building falls on top of you, just put on the vest, dismantle your chair, and try to dig your way out of the rubble.
Formal restraint, structural clarity and great seating comfort are convincing features of the chairs in the Visavis product group. Several different versions are available, making the chairs suitable for diverse applications, ranging from contract and mass seating to home furnishings. Visavis chairs are ideal companion pieces to the office chairs in the Citterio Collection.
The version with a padded and upholstered backrest offers additional comfort, has a neutral appearance and, with its variety of cover materials and colours, can be used to accentuate an interior. This cantilevered chair is extremely comfortable, thanks to the shape and construction of its tubular steel frame.
The free suspension of the seat allows it to respond to the user’s movements with springy resilience. The backrest is made of flexible plastic with integrated armrests. Due to its innovative construction, it not only provides solid support to the spine, but also allows a high degree of mobility.
Perforations in the surface ensure constant air circulation. These are not simply aesthetic features, but essential elements of comfort. In addition the chair is available in a wide selection of upholstery materials, colours and surface textures.
For use in training venues and for mass seating in auditoriums and other large spaces Visavis and Visavis 2 are available in stackable versions, with ganging connectors for row seating, and optional writing tablets.
Visavis 2 is distinguished by its slender backrest construction with a fine pattern of circular perforations.The version with a padded and upholstered backrest offers additional comfort, has a neutral appearance and, with its variety of cover materials and colours, can be used to accentuate an interior.
Technical description
Cantilevered base made of tubular steel (matte or polished chrome, or surface coating in the colour basic dark). Fabric or leather seat cover over a polyurethane pad.
Backrest with integrated armrests made of polypropylene in the colours basic dark or transparent; backrest versions either un-upholstered, or upholstered with a cover choice of fabric or leather. Base on plastic glides, optional felt inlays for hard flooring.
Chromeplated base also available for stacking version (5 chairs max.) or with row connectors.
Optional writing tablet.
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