Home & Office Furniture Desgin

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.

Working in an office requires a few factors to make the environment right, the people you are working with, the surroundings of your office and lastly, a comfortable seat that you can plant yourself into whilst working! There is nothing worse than having to finish your work, and your seat is physically draining you, you feeling like you are sitting on a plank of wood, or your back aches to the point where you want to bring in your own chair. But why all the inconvenience when you can visit this website that will help you find the best chair for you to sit and work on? This website(www.officehomefurnitures.com) will even go into details about how to but your chairs, whether it’s from the manufacturers themselves or from a dealer, this will assist you to ultimate comfort. So now, it is time for you to find out what chair is for you in order for you to maybe even enjoy your work more!

This interesting contemporary cupboard, designed by Karim Rashid for Horm, is the ideal solution for those who are looking for a piece of furniture that has something unique. This piece of furniture designed by Karim Rashid called “Tide Cupboard” echoes the ripples and undulation of ocean waves in thin, parallel slats, bringing a peaceful tranquility and minimalist aesthetic. In a range of vibrant lacquered colors, or the pure white shown here, nothing detracts from the serene flow of lines. – Via

(Check out our complete collection of 70 Works of Recycled Art and Design.)

Do you ever get sick of people telling you to recycle? Well, these furniture designers prove recycling can be a lot more interesting than stuffing cans, bottles and cardboard into the proper containers. A ‘bathtub couch’ and ’shopping cart chair’ may not be your cup of tea but there is something for everyone in this collection. Who knows, you might even be inspired to find new uses for old stuff around the house after seeing some of these bizarre recycled furniture designs.

The Castor Canadensis design collective has a solution for folks who aren’t sure what to do with old fluorescent light tubes: use them as light fixtures! While the design is not overly complex it is rather elegant in its simplicity. Also, the fixtures are great for diffusing the light and work remarkably well to illuminate an interior living or dining space.

While not exactly ergonomic the adaption of a shopping cart into a chair seems rather reasonable once you see the result: a detailed and structurally-sound seat that bends and gives slightly where needed but also provides a good deal of support and a place to rest one’s arms. Still, these and other shopping cart chairs might be better suited to a BBQ setting than to a formal dining set.

Old sports equipment has a way of accumulating. Some things we outgrow, some things we ‘replace’ only to find the originals later behind some pile in the garage. Instead of discarding all of that stuff why not find a clever way to reuse it? Maybe the skateboard table or baseball bat chair aren’t your style but perhaps you know a sports fan in need of a sporty recycled furniture birthday present.

Not every piece of ‘recycled furniture’ has to be fancy. These crushed-can furniture pieces are extremely simple in theory but quite colorful in practice. They aren’t suited for every interior design scheme but they are robust and would work great for outdoor furniture in a rugged environment. After all, would anyone really notice the rust on these?

If you’ve ever remodeled a bathroom you know just how big and awkward old bathtubs can be and getting one out of the house to be recycled or scrapped is no easy task. With a few simple modifications the designers over at Reestore have found a way to deal with these clunky relics. Whether the solution is a potentially romantic love seat or an entirely kitch creation is, of course, in the eye of the beholder.

A dishwasher drum seems an unlikely candidate for reuse until you see this recycled dishwasher drum table in action. Once transformed, this odd object is surprisingly suited to its new roll as the base of a simple cylindrical side table. The perforations in the site create interesting lighting patters and the hollow center makes this a light and versatile addition to any home.

Once you smash and bend that bike wheel enough it has nowhere to go but the dumpster, right? Wrong if you’re Andrew Gregg who distorts these seemingly broken pieces even further in the pursuit of a higher goal. The results clearly show the objects’ origins but are nonetheless original, dynamic, eye-catching and even useful compositions.

As everything related to computers gets smaller fewer and fewer people need their old CDs, particularly the burned copies of things that are somewhere on hard drive or a iPhone anyway. Simple reuses for these included coasters and gaudy dangling decorations of course, but the chair above is a pretty compact way to reuse loads of them all at once. That being said, one has to wonder whether this CD chair could possibly be comfortable.

Not every piece of old clothing is fit for the Salvation Army. Some things are too full of holes or, well, let’s face it, too embarrassingly outdated for you to subject even a total stranger to. With this simple and material-light clothing container furniture you can simply stuff your old clothes (ideally after one last wash of course) into a new shape and use as plush and padded furniture.

Newspaper has to be one of the most ubiquitous recyclables on the planet and processing newspapers into reusable materials is itself energy-consuming. Instead, people with the time and inclination could take a hint from the above design: folding, wrapping and weaving newspaper can create surprisingly strong, naturally variegated and colorful recycled newspaper baskets.

Cleaning out the drawers always seems to turn up a surprising number of throwaway pens. By the time we get to these many are dried out or otherwise dysfunctional. Up close it may look tacky but from a distance this disposable pen chandelier has some grace to it. Plus if you ever needed a pen you’d at least know where to find one.

Retro is great but for most of us the faked retro items at the local hipster shop are just a bit too contrived. Lamponi Lamps is the real deal: they use vintage appliances and automobile parts to create elaborate and remarkably elegant lamps. There is a kind of retrofuturism at work here with an authenticity rarely found in faux-historical interior furnishings. There are some more great green furniture items and unusually cool recycling projects at Inhabitat and Ecoble as well as some neat recycled art over at CultCase

Typical office furniture is gray, drab, and uncomfortable. Seeing row after row of cubicles, all paired with the same black office chair and occupied by the same bored looking colleague sitting at the same modern desk design, day after day, can really get to you. From desks to chairs, these unusually creative office furnitures could help you perk up your office - or at least give you something interesting to look at while you’re pretending that you’re not reading WebUrbanist at work.

At first glance, the Trey Chair seems to be an ordinary office chair. But when you look closer, you notice that it’s two distinct pieces that can come apart and be used separately. The seat becomes a low rocker, perfect for playing video games or doing homework, while the wheeled base becomes a tiny table or comfy ottoman. This has to be one of the best multi-functional chairs we’ve seen. You can go from working at a desk to working low to the ground with a laptop table in no time flat.

How many times have you needed to read up on a subject for work or school, but just couldn’t find a quiet place to do it? The Bookinist, from German designer Nils Holger Moormann, solves that problem in a very neat way. The Bookinist is basically a portable chair that just happens to have a ton of book storage space built in. It can hold about 80 paperback books, plus it has a hidden compartment for storing reading essentials - which, according to the picture, apparently include a magnifying glass and some paint stirring sticks. The attached reading lamp makes it easy to study even in low light. This awesomely unique chair would be at home in nearly any room.

Although the Flagship Vision One chair could conceivably be used for work, it is obviously meant to be the greatest gaming chair ever. Made with a genuine Porsche seat and featuring ample surfaces for all of your gear, the V1 is the ultimate in working/gaming comfort. And if your job just happens to be playing video games, even better.

Dr. James Levine of the Mayo Clinic has done extensive research on the effects of low-speed walking while working. In his estimation, workers can lose 57 pounds in a year if they do nothing else but walk at 1-2 miles per hour while working on their computer. While it would obviously take a little time to get used to walking and typing, this seems like a sensible and simple way to keep in shape. The treadmill workstation from Steelcase comes in a stationary design or an adjustable one that lets you go from walking to sitting with just a few adjustments. Or, if you’re adventurous and handy with a saw, try making your own.

If you’ve ever worked in an office, you know how it can grind down your soul. The constant noise, the lack of personal space, and the frequent interruptions found in most offices are enough to make some of us hide in a bathroom stall just to get a little time away. If you can convince your boss to let you get this excellent piece of furniture, your privacy (and perhaps your dignity) will be restored. The House on the Table, from design studio Design Mong, is quite literally a house on a table. It’s like a cave that fits on top of your desk and gives you your own little fort inside your office. Imagine how fun it would be to hold a meeting in this tiny playhouse office.

If you happen to have large piles of cash just waiting to be spent, the DC6 Cowling Desk from MotoArt would be an outstanding addition to your office. In its former life it housed an aircraft engine. Now it can look fashionable and shiny, holding your computer as you toil away all day.

It looks sort of like a weird steampunk dentist chair, but the Nethrone is in fact an adjustable work station that allows users to adjust the tilt of the chair and monitor. The end result is sort of like a customizable cradle that provides a relaxing work environment…if you can keep yourself from falling asleep in it, that is.

While it most likely won’t fit into your office, the Conference Bike is a fun way to take the office outside. Pile your Party-Planning Committee members on and take a ride around the park while the debate over the color of the napkins rages on. The Conference Bike is a trike on which seven people sit and pedal while one steers. We can imagine that in some offices, choosing one person to steer would require a whole new committee.

Finally, another impressive offering from the mind of Nils Holger Moormann: the Lese + Lebe (or Read + Live). There are almost too many cool things about this piece of furniture to list them all. The back is a bookcase, while the front features a couch, fold-down tables, pull-out footrests, storage drawers, and even some cute lamps. The tables look to be just about the right size for perching your laptop on. The whole thing is on wheels, making it a breeze to move from one room to another when your family or coworkers in one room get to be a bit too much.

Sit down and relax in this outstanding Zero Gravity Massage Chair from Sanyo and you will experience a deep massage that will leave you feeling like you had a day at the spa! This Zero Gravity Massage Chair features a reclining mechanism that creates a just-fit feeling and seating comfort that reduces the load on your body by appropriately distributing your body’s weight. The Zero Gravity Massage Chair lives up to its name- you will leave this chair with a sense of weightlessness and a feeling of total body relaxatio

Casual, carefree and diverse lifestyles of America’s coasts are the inspiration behind this Collection from Coastal Living. This Coastal Living Bed End Bench will blend functionality and sophistication into your cottage’s bedroom with its two pull out drawers for storage needs. In addition to the bed end bench’s convenient storage options, fourteen painted frame finishes and four different exquisite fabrics are available that draw inspiration from the varied landscapes of the coast.

Vancouver Convertible Sofa Bed

Sleek, modish, and chic are all ways to describe the Vancouver Convertible Sofa Bed. Rest and relax properly with the latest European styling in sofa beds. The Vancouver Convertible Sofa Bed combines modern ingenuity with the highest quality standards. Featuring the intuitive “click-clac” system, the Vancouver Convertible Sofa Bed converts in seconds to a full-size sleeper. This convertible sofa will make your home both stylish and comfortable. Optional storage ottoman to complete the look

Red Petal Lounge Chair and Ottoman

Be completely up to date and modern with this Red Petal Lounge Chair and Ottoman. Constructed of a velour micro-fiber with solid steel chrome swivel base and designed to resemble that of a flower petal. This thoroughly in fashion chair is ergonomic for your pleasure and also comes in black!

Available in a sleek silver finish, the Mali Lounger Combo is the perfect furniture incorporation to any home, office, dorm and apartment. The Mali Lounger Combo is an alternative contemporary furniture piece with creative capabilities. Each side has six-positional wings that can form the Mali frame into a sofa chair and multi-positional lounger. Stylish, custom cushions and pillows available in several fashion-forward combos decorate the Mali while offering exceptional comfort. A great piece suited for all ages.