Arne Jacobsen Oxford Office Chair: You’re the Boss

Tags: Arne Jacobsen, Chair, Fritz Hansen, Furniture, Oxford Office Chair

When you spend all that time in your office slaving in front of your system, you deserve to be sitting in a chair that is comfortable and takes great care of your back and behind. The style of the chair comes next; after all, if you want to become the envy of your employees then you need to be sitting in chair that would definitely tell them who’s the boss.
The Arne Jacobsen Oxford office chair will make this statement quite boldly and loudly for you. The chair was first designed by Jacobsen in 1962 for St. Catherine’s College and still remains in style and in circulation, through Fritz Hansen. The Oxford chair is upholstered and laminated, made of moulded wood with a satin-polished aluminium base. It comes with high or low back rest, and with or without armrests.

The swivelling chair allows adjusting of the height and can be tilted back. The Oxford chair is available in both leather and fabric and ranges between £993 and £2822.

Via: Skandium

Self-Sustainable Chair: Inflate Your Butt into a Chair

Tags: Chair, exercise, Furniture, jooyoun paek, Self-Sustainable Chair

You’re taking that brisk walk early in the morning to lose the extra two inches of fat and all of a sudden you just need to take a break and sit down for a while. But you’re not in a park and there is no place to sit down. If only you were wearing the right type of clothing for the occasion.
If the idea of a piece of clothing that can help you take a comfortable seat confuses you, then let JooYoun Paek educate you. Paek has created the Self-Sustainable Chair which would be a part of your wardrobe. This wearable piece of furniture works by inflating into the guise of a bean bag through air pumps that can be worn as shoes. Your butt literally inflates as you walk so that you are ready to sit back and relax upon your over-inflated behind.

The Self-Sustainable Chair came as part of a project that suggested that walking and resting could be balanced by rethinking the utility of what we wore. Just don’t let anybody tease you about your big booty!

Via: DesignZen

Rough Diamonds: Pimped Up Furniture Collection by Lee Broom

Tags: Armchair, Chair, Corner girl, diamonds, Lee Broom, London Design Festival, Luminaire Berger, Milan furniture Fair, Neo Neon, neon lights, rough diamonds

Diamonds are forever and how could we possible go through a day without being near them. This seems to have been in the mind of designer Lee Broom when he presented a line of furniture, titled Rough Diamonds. The Art Furniture collection presented at the London Design Festival is created with the intention of making a melange of the vintage and the modern. Lee strived to accentuate the beauty of each of the ancient pieces by imbibing a piece of contemporary design into it, creating a hybrid that would be in fashion within a modern decor, too.

The leather armchair with the lights, Club Chair, does appear as though it has been splattered with sparkling diamonds and the same look is achieved by the Corner Girl and Side Show (though sitting on these two pieces may prove difficult!) Bright on Bistro and Luminaire Berger have been outlined with neon lights, reminiscent of Lee’s debut collection, Neo Neon. The collection, which also made an appearance at the 2008 Milan furniture Fair, has been sold to New York, Paris, London, Kuwait and Las Vegas.

Via: Dezeen

Noah Wave Seat: Aquires Shape of Any Bottom

Tags: cargo transporter, Chair, Furniture, Jung Hoon Rhee, nanotube, Noah, polymer, seat, vehicles, Wave Seat

Ever tried to take a seat in a chair that just didn’t seem to want to accept your bottom? You fidget and turn this way and that and cross your legs and pull them up onto the seat, but you still can’t find a comfortable spot to rest your aching behind. Don’t let it bother you too much, not when the Wave Seat is here. Designed to shape like a wave, this seat, titled Noah, can comfortably accommodate every bottom of different shapes and sizes, ahum.

The Noah Wave Seatdesign that customises itself to every individual’s bottom shape is possible through the use of polymers infused with nanotube. When electric current passes through them at the moment of use, the nanotubes would stretch and contract, acquiring the shape of the user after stiffening and softening into shape. Designed by Jung Hoon Rhee, the concept would be ideal to be used for seats in vehicles and also to transport fragile cargo.

Via: YankoDesign

A collapsible wheel chair with a commode: Challenging the limits

Tags: commode, Designer, Julie Clyde, wheel chair

Last week, I wanted to take my grandparents out to visit the woods for their 50th anniversary but swore that I would never do that again. Now, I am not an unruly grand daughter but it was a momentous task to carry two wheel chairs, the old lovers and my doggie Danny together on my bumping old vagon.
Thanks to Julie Clyde, I will be able to take my pals out in near future. Ms. Clyde truly deserves our applaud for having designed Freemode, a chair that helps people with disabilities gain more convenience.
One of the best features of the chair is that it is made up of fibre glass and therefore can be taken easily to washroom and can be used as a bathing chair as well as a commode. Since it is easily foldable, it is ideal for personal use as well as hospitals/airports. It has quick release pins which means that you can pack it in a matter of few seconds.

It is sturdy and promises to last a long time. Ms. Clyde has researched the viability of designing such chair by talking to local fibreglass artists. The chair comes in ivory white color with gloss finish and a sand yellow pack case that makes it truly durable.
I think I might not be that late to buy it as an anniversary gift for my dear granny and grand pa!

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Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio

Tags: asko, ball, Ball Chair, cologne, Eero Aarnio, globe chair, International Furniture Fair

Eero Aarnio designed the Ball Chair for his new home because he wanted ‘one big chair’ for the house and for himself. He never imagined that a couple managers from Asko would delight upon his humble design while visiting him at home and decide to make it available for the masses. The prototype for Aarnio’s Ball Chair, also called the Globe Chair, had been designed in 1962, but it wasn’t until four years later that it reached production. The same year, it featured at the International Furniture Fair at Cologne which became Aarnio’s link to the international market.

The Ball Chair appears to be the bigger cut half of a ball standing comfortably on its own pedestal. The design softly cuts out much of the external noise, giving the user the semblance of being in his own world. The Ball Chair revolves its own axis, giving you the choice to pick the desired view of the room. With comfortably padded insides, the Ball Chair offers you a relaxing reprieve. It is a testament to the amazing design that it is still in production and popular over four decades later. There are a lot of Aarnio fakes doing the rounds so make sure you get an original from his website.

Via: EeroAarnio

El Zulo: Specially Designed Station for Power Napping by Frank Ehners

Tags: digital fingerprinting, El Zulo, Frank Ehners, Germany, Halle Univesity of Art and Design, hideout, performance optimisation, Sleep

Power napping has been in focus for quite some time. Power napping is sleeping for a short duration of time, between 10-20 minutes, in which the individual does not have enough time to drift into deep dreamy sleep. Thus, the individual would wake up rested and alert. El Zulo may appear like Superman’s space travelling pod but is designed to give the user the best power nap so he wakes up energised and ready for optimum performance.

El Zulo, meaning ‘hideout’ in Spanish, was designed by Frank Ehners as an industrial design project while at Halle Univesity of Art and Design, Germany. The user is seated in an upright embryonic position in El Zulo so that body weight is optimally distributed and the back is relieved. This upright position would give the feeling of being able to get back right up to work. The inside is made from a flexible timber form and is padded with special foam for a comfortable nap.
Ehners has included digital fingerprinting for a more personalised experience and a vibration alarm along the chest range would wake you up sans an irritating noise. Special hygienic covers for the headrest and other contact areas allow use of El Zulo by multiple users. El Zulo is intended for offices or research establishments where ‘nap breaks’ could be given to increase the performance level of employees.

Via InventorSpot

Fashionable Bamboo Products by Different Designers

Tags: anthony marschak, asus ecobook, Bamboo, becca stool, Bench, branch, cutlery, dandi, fashionable, laptop, legnoart, nesting basket, remodern, remy veenhuizen, spring chairs, sushi table, veneer plates

In a bid to produce eco-friendly and bio-degradable products, designers are opting to create more and more goods from wood. And what can be better than bamboo when it comes to going au naturel? The use of bamboo has been incorporated into the making of so many products that it has become the style ingredient of today’s eco-conscious generation. It may have begun with bamboo chairs and bamboo tables but the reign of bamboo has moved on to high tech products like laptops in a design revolution.

The amazing flexibility that bamboo offers makes it an ideal type of wood to be used in the production of complexly shaped creations. The fact that it is lightweight and pleasant on the eye is just another bonus for the designers and the consumers of bamboo products. The esprit of bamboo is seen in the different products below which includes the spring chair by Anthony Marschak, veneer plates and cutlery from Branch, bamboo bowl from Dandi, bamboo plates and nesting baskets from Remodern, sushi table from Legnoart, bamboo laptop by Asus’ Ecobook and Becca stool by Marschak. The first picture is a chair designed by Remy Veenhuizen.

Via: 2Modern

Dining Table with Chairs Invisible, at Your Command

Tags: Brian Lee, Chairs, Chubby Brothers dining table, Designer, Furniture

No matter how rich we get, the homes are getting smalller and smaller. And a medium sized appartment in your favourute locality may cost you a fortune. Would you mind having a dinner table that hides the chairs when not in use? Imagine how nice it would be if your kids have a little additional space to run around, specially not ahving to bump into the dining table. The Chubby Brothers dining table can be made into an elegant piece of art when not in use and whenever you want, four comfortable chais would be at your service!

The brain behind this wonder, designer Brian Lee says that this is, “A dining table with the idea of allowing the audience to gain a different perspective as an unrecognizable object when put together.”

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Via YankoDesign

Stylish and Soft Chairs by Tanya Aguiniga

Tags: Chairs, felt, industrial impermanence, natural materials, Soft, stool stump, Stylish, Tanya Aguiniga, textile

A prototype of a chair may remain in our minds as something with a flat surface and four legs, perhaps in respect to our ancestors, but that is rarely what a chair looks like these days. It is not just something to give our behinds some much-needed comfort, but is something to add style and personal signature to our living spaces. Designer Tanya Aguiniga has constantly, with every creation of hers, changed our concept of what a chair should look like. And her beautiful designs and comfort-prioritised chairs get only gratitude from our bottoms!

Based in Los Angeles, Aguiniga intends to design chairs that ‘soften industrial impermanence’. This softening is seen in the way she abundantly uses felt, string and other textiles and natural materials in her designs, but is not limited to the feel. The softening experiences have spilt onto the look of the designs also. Check out the different designs by Aguiniga; at least one of it is sure to appeal to you. Personally, I love the stump stool that looks like a tree trunk inviting me to sit down on it with a good book. I can almost smell the fresh leaves with that one.

Via: DesignBoom