Helmut Palla transforms found chairs into unique art pieces. Simple & nice.

found at designboom weblog

“In Loving Memory – The Lamborghini Countach” is a design project by Martin Meier. To Martin, the Lamborghini Countach is the goddess of all super cars. Many of his childhood fantasies and early design adventures revolved around its very design. It embodies the quintessence of engineering and styling qualities focused on performance. “In loving Memory” is a collection of design classics on which he applied the extreme aesthetics of the Countach.
Many thanks to spanier for the photos!

seen during DMY Berlin at Appel Design Gallery

How did young designers show off their work in the pre internet era? It is so nice to find online portfolios filled with nice projects these days. So here are 2 projects by Eric Ku: CHAIR/CHAIR and “Only Graphic Designers Can See – Magazine, Issue 1″.

found at It’s Nice That

The Broken Arm Chair by George Dubinsky is definitely one of the funniest design objects I’ve seen in a while.

found at designboom weblog

The 5.5 Designers were inspired by Roland-Garros when they designed “3 Sets”. The names of the 3 objects are of course tennis related. The stool is called BREAK and was corded by the official Roland-Garros official cordeur Laurent Lucas. The decanter and glasses are called ACE, they look like the typical tubes where you store your tennis balls in. The last item is the 15-30 BOARD which is a homage to the mythical scores board in Paris.

found at designboom weblog

Do Pirate is project by Mathieu Maingaurd, he recreates well known design objects in a do it yourself way. Here are a few examples, the first photo is the original, the second one the pirated version.

“Chest Of Drawers” by Tejo Remy.

“Do Chest Of Drawers” by Mathieu Maingaurd.

“Egg Vase” by Marcel Wanders.

“Do Egg Vase” by Mathieu Mainguard.

“Rag Chair” by Tejo Remi.

“Do Rag Chair” by Mathieu Maingaurd.

“Milk Bottle Lamp” by Tejo Remy.

“Do Milk Bottle Lamp” by Mathieu Maingaurd.

Stefan Diez will present his new chair family called Houdini in Milan this week. They come in a side chair and a chair wirth armrest version. The chairs are made of 4mm thin oak-veneered plywood, which is glued to a milled solid wood ring. Personaly I like the side chair the most, it has simple shape with some distinct lines.
They will be avaible from e15 in natural oak, black, white and grey lacquer finishes as well as custom colours.
Mak

“Sacrificial Chair” by Punga & Smith. I need this chair so I can have my other one back.

“Your Level Stool” by Ryohei Yoshiyuki.

found at designboom weblog

The Lobby Chair by StokkeAustad is black! And quite nice too.

found at grijs