MetaFilter posts tagged with chairs

New Furniture Design Ideas

netbros — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:58:59 -0800

Modern Furniture Designs. Innovative and unique furniture has twists and turns, literal and conceptual ways of breaking from contemporary conventions and modern regularity. These creative furniture designs go beyond merely innovative, crossing boundaries of industrial, furniture and architectural design, using new methods and materials along the way.

Tree People!

hippybear — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:51:13 -0800

Amazing Pooktre Sculptures. A gallery of living art. Previously. (with bonus extra Previouslies inside!)

Factory Porn

Manhasset — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:52:53 -0800

Eames Shell Chair - Something of how they get the way they are. Video.

just plane furniture

madamjujujive — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:56:38 -0800

Ever had a yen for a table made from jet engine turbine blades or a desk fashioned from a wing or a cowling? Giancarlo de Astis and Moto Art are two high-end design firms that are creating eye catching furniture and functional art from scavenged airplane parts. You can see their work and the work of others in the aviation art community at InterFlight Studio. Or do-it-yourself-ers in the crowd might just prefer a Field Guide to Aircraft Boneyards.

Bespoke furnishings

madamjujujive — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:41:56 -0800

Bike furniture - now that's recycling!

(Un?)patriotic Dads with lawn chairs

dios — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:42:37 -0800

Precision Lawn Chair Marching Dads

The Tantra Chair (nsfw)

SeizeTheDay — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:08:31 -0800

The Tantra Chair (NSFW) seems like a great addition to any modern living room.

White noise

madamjujujive — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:18:28 -0800

White plastic chairs - Jens Thiel blogs his research of the ubiquitous chair we all love to hate for an upcoming monobloc monograph and museum exhibition. The first chair emerged midcentury, devil spawn of a noble heritage. Today, some fear the monobloc population rivals or exceeds that of humans. Some view the chair as art, others see their place in history, but I agree with the wag who dubs them tupperware containers for lard butts.

Inhabitat

Melinika — Sat, 14 May 2005 12:14:14 -0800

Inhabitat - "source on the future of design". Great finds like Tetris shelves, the Slumber Light, a transformer apartment, and Favela Chairs. (via the saucydwellings LJ community)

9 designers, 9 cities, 9 chairs

madamjujujive — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:12:47 -0800

Un-Fold. (quicktime clip) City Magazine asked 9 designers, from 9 cities across the world to design a chair in 90 days. Oh, and it had to fit in a FedEx box. Pics and more about the designers and the project.

plop plop fizz fizz - champagne chairs

madamjujujive — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:27:01 -0800

What makes for a great champagne chair? Design Within Reach sponsored a holiday contest to design a chair constructed from the cork and wire cages of champagne bottle. Judges had a difficult time deciding from the 400 entries that poured in. (via Buzz.)

ewagoner — Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:35:36 -0800

Pull up a folding chair and take a look at the folding chair's four thousand year history, thanks to the kind folks at designboom.

scarabic — Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:02:32 -0800

Stand up for sitting down! Management at Indigo/Chapters (a Canadian bookstore mega-chain equivalent to Borders) is drastically reducing the amount of comfortable seating in their stores chain-wide. This committed group of activists isn't taking the matter sitting down. Show your support!

crunchland — Sat, 03 Feb 2001 07:30:12 -0800

An Ode to the Aeron -- Something good may come out of the dotcom collapse at last! As they all go belly up, having lavished lots of their venture capital on $2000 office chairs, will the rest of us finally be able to afford these marvels of office architecture, even if we do have to settle for them being used?

mathowie — Tue, 20 Jul 1999 08:01:21 -0800

Screw the $800 Aeron chair I've coveted for so long, I need one of these.