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Furniture - Chair - Wassily - Marcel Breuer |
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Chair Wassily by Marcel Breuer.
 Perhaps the most widely-recognized of Breuer's early designs was the first bent tubular steel chair, later known as the Wassily Chair, designed in 1925 and was inspired, in part, by the curved tubular steel handlebars on Breuer's Adler bicycle. Despite the widespread popular belief that the chair was designed for painter Wassily Kandinsky, Breuer's colleague on the Bauhaus faculty, it was not; Kandinsky admired Breuer's finished chair design, and only then did Breuer make an additional copy for Kandinsky's use in his home. When the chair was re-released in the 1960s, it was designated "Wassily" by its Italian manufacturer, who had learned that Kandinsky had been the recipient of one of the earliest post-prototype units. |
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Designers - Marcel Breuer |
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 Designer Marcel Breuer.
Marcel Lajos Breuer (21 May 1902 Pécs, Hungary – 1 July 1981 New York City), architect and furniture designer, was an influential Hungarian-born modernist of Jewish descent. One of the fathers of Modernism, Breuer showed a great interest in modular construction and simple forms. Marcel Breuer on Wikipedia.
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Lighting - Collage - Louise Campbell |
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Lamp by Louise Campbell. Produced by Louis Poulsen.
The Collage pendant, offering direct & diffused illumination emits a constantly changing reveal. The pendant consists of three staggered shades in order to avoid any direct glare and to encourage a beautiful play of light. Constructed using three pieces of laser-cut, glossy extruded acrylic, the light and shadows from the fixture are ever changing when viewing from different angles.
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Designers - Louise Campbell |
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Furniture - Chair - LC2 - Le Corbusier |
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Chair LC2 by Le Corbusier.
Le Corbusier designed this original Petite Lounge Chair (LC2) collection based on the human scale. Le Corbusier created a range of Grand Confort Lounge Chairs (LC2) that express his ideals with great sophistication.
The Le Corbusier group called their LC2 collection the “cushion basket,” and designed it in 1928 as a modernist response to the traditional club chair. Compactly scaled for luxury cruise ships, the idea was to offer all the comfort of a padded surface while applying the elegant minimalism and industrial rationale of the International Style. Following the example of the LC1 Sling Chair, the steel structure is externalized, and the result is an armchair that holds the body in a simple tubular structure that still looks stunning today. Thick, resilient pillows rest on top of the frame and provide the kind of sumptuousness rarely found even in the finest overstuffed conventional chairs.
Mrs. Heidi Weber of Zurich first put the Le Corbusier Grand Confort lounge collection into production in 1959. With his the approval, she changed the Petite Lounge Chair (LC2) appearance and added this three seat sofa. She removed the spring mechanism and used fabricating methods, which allowed the frame to be chromed. She also gave the cushions a more formal & tailored look. Her contribution to the re-design of the collection was instrumental in the commercial success of the collection.
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Video - Designer - Paul Bennett |
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Video - Designer Paul Bennett.
As creative director at the influential design and innovation company Ideo, Paul Bennett manages to keep his eye on the little things that matter, though his clients are among the biggest in the world (Procter & Gamble and Pepsi, to name but two). "Small is the new big,"Bennett says. |
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Furniture - Chair - Barcelona - Van der Rohe |
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Chair Barcelona by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Produced by Knoll.
The Barcelona chair was exclusively designed for the German Pavilion, Germany's exhibition for the Barcelona World Fair of 1929. The design resulted from collaboration between the famous Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his longtime partner and companion, architect and designer Lilly Reich, whose contributions have only recently been acknowledged. An icon of modernism, the Barcelona chair's design was inspired by the campaign and folding chairs of ancient times.contributions have only recently been acknowledged. An icon of modernism, the Barcelona chair's design was inspired by the campaign and folding chairs of ancient times.
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Furniture - Chair - Ottoman - Charles - Ray Eames |
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The Eames Lounge Chair and ottoman, correctly titled Eames Lounge (670) and Ottoman (671) were released in 1956 after years of development by designers Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company. It was the first chair the Eames designed for a high-end market. These furnishings are made of molded plywood and leather. Examples of these furnishings are part of the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
The chair is composed of three curved plywood shells. The shells are made with several thin layers of wood veneer glued together and shaped under heat and pressure. The shells and the seat cushions are essentially the same shape: composed of two curved forms interlocking to form a solid mass. The chair back and headrest are identical in proportion, as are the seat and the Ottoman.
The Eames constantly made use of new materials. The couple's first plywood chair - the Eames Lounge Chair Wood (LCW)-made use of a heavy rubber washer glued to the backrest of the chair and screwed to the lumbar support. These washers, which have come to be called 'shock mounts', allow the backrest to flex slightly.
This technology was brought back in the 670 Lounge chair. The backrest and headrest are screwed together by a pair of aluminum supports. This unit is suspended on the seat via two connection points in the armrests. The armrests are screwed to shock mounts on the interior of the backrest shell, allowing the backrest and headrest to flex when the chair is in use. This is part of the chair's unusual design, as well as one of its biggest flaws. The rubber washers are solidly glued to the plywood shells, but have been known to tear free when excessive weight is applied, or when the rubber becomes old and brittle.
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Lighting - PH 5 - Poul Henningsen |
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Lamp by Poul Henningsen. Produced by Louis Poulsen.
The PH5 pendant is designed to hang low above a table while at the same time giving a moderate light to the surroundings. In Denmark you will see that approximately one in every two homes has a PH5 pendant.
This is what PH wrote about this product: “After 33 years of more or less Christian behavior, I have converted to Islam - in my relation to the manufacturer of incandescent bulbs. For a whole lifetime I believed that consideration for the consumer and good sense would triumph but now I have become a fatalist. I accept fate and have, with Louis Poulsen’s permission, constructed a PH fixture in which you can put anything - glowworms, Christmas lights and 100 watt metal filament bulbs.
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Lighting - Tolemeo - Michele de Lucchi |
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Lamp by Michele de Lucchi. Produced by Artemide.
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