Patricia Urquiola designed a new collection of different chairs for the Italian furniture brand Moroso, called Tropicalia. She used 3 different materials for the weaving, so you have outside and inside versions. This RGB one is my favorite.
Oscar and Ewan is a small graphic design studio in London. They were asked to participate in the Polygon Show and were given a 3D shape to respond to, a cube. They decided not to show a cube, but to remove it from a small furniture setup.
Today is going to be a beautiful day in Berlin, we expect up to 20° Celcius. So sunglasses will be all over town. These ones are designed by Anna ter Haar for Klavers van Engelen, dripping hot.
Anna knows her way around with plastics; her chairs, stools and tables were also on display in Milan last week.
Sometimes you only need 6 chairs and a plank of wood to make a bench. ‘Bench2‘ by Sschemata, known for their 63.02° house. But you can do it the other way around too.
found at dezeen
This ‘Table for Cyklopen’ will be part of the exhibition ‘Functional Design for a Dysfunctional World’
by konstfack, the university college of arts, crafts and design located in stockholm, next week in Milan.
found at designboom weblog
This ‘Leather & Plastic Chair’ is a classic. Front Design added the black leather seat to a standard white plastic chair, the original classic. Available at Vlaemsch().
This chair called Myto was designed by Konstantin Grcic for the Italian furniture brand Plank. The chair is made of a new engineered plastic with an extreme flowability; you can see more development pictures like this one side of the mold at the designboom weblog.
EDIT:
designboom posted a gallery with a lot more making of pictures, go and check them out here.
L41 by Geoffrey Lilge. One of the better new chairs I saw recently.
found at dezeen
This is the Diamond Chair by Nendo. On the first picture you can see a step in the production process, indeed it’s a rapid prototyping technique called selective laser sintering. It’s very similar to the 3D printing that Front Design used for their Sketch Furniture.
Unfortunately this technology isn’t ready for mass production yet, it takes 5 to 6 days just to print 1 chair.
More info and images at dezeen.
This is Chair 442 at the the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. Luke Strosnider photographed 520 more chairs and uploaded them to Flickr. You just got to love pages like this one.
found at kottke