Globus: Globe Table and Chair Ensemble by Michiel Kley

Tags: Chair, Furniture, Globe, Globus, Michiel Kley, Table

Finding the right table and chair for your work can become such a difficult thing. When you find the perfect table, it doesn’t go with the style of the perfect chair. Or they just are not good enough.

Cast your tired eyes upon the Globus and thank the heavens because this beautiful shiny white globe would be the best chair and table ensemble you would ever find. Classy and chic, the Globus breaks apart into two pieces- one designed to be the work table and the other a comfortable leather upholstered chair. It is also quite flexible, allowing adjustments in height and angle. Designed by Michiel van der Kley, the Globus can be moved around so that you can get away from any disturbances or distractions to work at the best spot.

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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.

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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

Cowboy Junkie: Saddle Seat for Cowboy Wannabe’s

Tags: barstool, Chair, Cowboy, Cowboy Junkie, fernando akasaka, Furniture, Saddle, seat

Emulating men from old western classics with rooting-tooting cowboys on black stallions chasing cows may be your biggest fantasy. Perhaps you have never ridden a horse in your life but who cares when you know you are still a cowboy at heart. The Cowboy Junkie is a seat designed by Brazilian Fernando Akasaka and it looks like a leather saddle sitting on a stick.

The black leather saddle sits atop a stool so that you can pretend you are a real cowboy riding high upon your horse. The saddle even has shiny steel stirrups hanging from the sides for an extra realistic look. This saddle seat would not look very out of place in the right setting at your home and would look great at a bar. You can fulfil your cowboy fantasies by getting yourself the Cowboy Junkie at Akasaka’s official site.
Via: DecoDesign

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.

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Side Chair One and Two: Turn it on its Side for a New Chair

Tags: Alexander Kneller, Chair, Furniture, London Design Festival, Side Chair One and Two, Sofa

Double sided t-shirts were such a rage because you could just turn them inside out and pretend you had a new shirt. You might get bored with your old furniture and try doing the same thing. If you think that turning your chairs upside down or over the side will give your room a new look and fool visitors into thinking you have gone ahead and bought some new furniture, you’re quite wrong. But don’t be disheartened, because it is quite possible with the Side Chair One and Two.

The Side Chair One and Two, designed by Alexander Kneller, can be laid on its back as a low chair or kept upright as a high backed chair. Either ways, it gives you two sides to choose from to suit the style of your room or when you’re trying to save space or fill up a vacuum. One of the designs also has built in drawers that can be pulled out to store things in. The Side Chair One and Two made its first appearance at the 2007 London design Festival where it made quite a hit. The London Design Festival of this year is happening in just over a week and you could check out more cool designs like this at their website.

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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

Sit the Way You Wish To, With OF Concept

Tags: Ben Collette, Chair, Concept, Designer, Dinner, Furniture, OF concept, Table, TV

If you are tired of your bulky dining table and want to try something that fits in the nuclear families and even single people like me, OF is the best option for you. The OF concept has a table and chair that can be rearranged in different ways depending upon place and mood. It is the perfect dining table when you want to eat in front of the idiot box. It can also serve as a spacious work desk for you. Since it is designed keeping in mind comfort and comfort alone, it pampers you in the best possible way. So, from now on, you need not make your sofa your make shift dining table because OF can fit in anywhere without compromising on royal meals.

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Worknest Chair: Winner of Red Dot Award 2008

Tags: Chair, Erwan Bouroullec, France, Germany, red dot award, Ronan Bouroullec, Vitra AG, Worknest

As the name suggests, the Worknest chair is an attempt to import ‘homelike’ qualities into the chair used at an office set up. Designed by French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the swivel chair endeavours to facade the functionality while instead stressing on the simple beauty of it. Seat and arm rests are upholstered in a soft material of pleasing colours. User can change the height of the chair and even that of the arm rests separately according to his/her individual desires, while in the comfort of a seated position. If you’re looking out for something soothing for both your back and on your eyes, this would be the perfect choice, even with a slightly raised price.

Working overtime for hours at the office can have you dreaming of going home to settle in your favourite and comfortable old armchair and resting your aching back against a plush cushion. Nowadays, work environments are made as comfortable as possible for the pleasures of the employees, perhaps from fear of early retirement by employees. The Worknest chair is manufactured by Vitra AG, Birsfelden, Germany, with the intension of granting the user all the desired comforts, is the winner of the Red Dot Award for the best product design, 2008.Â
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Jet Set Lounge Chair Made from Recycled Skate Boards

Tags: Chair, jet set lounge chair, recycle, skate boards, skate study house

Skating is such an obsession with those who are into the sport that they eat, sleep and shower with their skates. Hours are spent decorating bedroom walls with broken pieces of skates that have seen better days. Now skaters can take their obsession to another level and rest their tired backs on their favourite skates with the Jet Set Lounge Chair made from old skate boards.

Skate Study House has released a collection of furniture made completely from recycled skate boards. Designed by Pierre Andrew Senizergues and Gil Le Bon De Lapointel, the Jet Set Lounge Chaire is refashioned from eight skate boards attached to a curved spine-like metal frame. For comfort and adding to the look of sophistication, the skate boards are wrapped with black neoprene rubber that has also been recycled from wetsuits used by surfers.

This line of furniture is a salute to skate board culture expressed in mid-century design. Although a price isn’t attached by the company the lounge chair would be very affordable due to the use of recycled material. However, it is unlikely that even the Jet Set Lounge chair would coax skaters from staying away from the steep roads.
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