Le Corbusier: LC2

Stefan Zwicky: Domage a Corbu, grand confort, sans confort

By Swiss interior architect and designer Stefan Zwicky he created this LC2 out of Concrete and rebar. The Demisch Danant gallery sold one of these one ton Zwicky chairs for more than $40,000. I have heard that these also come close to being as comfortable as the real thing. :)

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Arne Jacobsen: Series 7 Chairs

Lisa Jones: Symbiosis Series

Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical drawings, The British sculptor Lisa Jones takes Arne Jacobsen's iconic Series 7 chair and transforms them using plywood, felt, silicone and steel. I would love to know about her process creating these and if they are actually capable of still being used..

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Barcelona Chair / Eames Lounge / LC2

Dirk Winkel: A Stacking Homage

How would you like to have a version of your Eames lounge or Barcelona chair dedicated to the pool or back patio? Dirk Winkel for his 2007 University of Arts Berlin final design project sets us up to do exactly that with his “A Stacking Hommage" 

From his site:

"The concept was to transform the original idol’s messages: the plastic chairs lose the message of financial power and wealth, they keep their design message and their grace and they gain a message of moral integrity by liberalising their archetypes from their stiff aura, like an ironic twist - and they fulfill an important intention of the bauhaus: to make their designs available for everyone."
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Eames Lounge Chair

Mark Wentzel: The Xlounge

The consumption of American culture is one of the things focused upon by designer Mark Wentzel. Wentzel explores the masterful design of the Eames Lounge Chair "I felt that this Eames chair was a crucial part of American iconography -- I think it really resonates with a wide range of people."

The Xlounge was shown at Project 4 Gallery's (Washington DC) Useless exhibition.

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Eames Plastic Armchair

Wart Meyers

Featured in "Time Out New York" magazine for their October 2006 Home Design issue, they asked Wary Meyers to collect tossed-out junk from the sidewalks in New York City, and turn it into stylish design. This painted Armchair is what they produced, the designs were then auctioned off to benefit the NYC Housing works chairity.

+ more of Meyers work HERE.

+ about the Eames Plastic Armchair

Charles + Ray Eames: Plastic Sidechair / LCM

Jared Delorenzo/Tim Peet/Alexandra Temple Powell/Tom Reynolds/Alie Thomer/Andrew McCandlish.

Created by ID students from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia

"These two pieces, the Eames toilet chair and the Eames child seat, are about breaking the status surrounding high design objects. Through physically invasive alterations, these once iconic, elite, forms are liberated from their old, restrained image. The project is not a critique of the Eames, but rather a fulfillment of their original ideals."

I don't know about you all, but I thnk my toilet would be quite pleased with being crowned with an Eames chair, plus I would always remember to keep the lid down

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Charles + Ray Eames: LCW
Ayse Birsel/David Rockwell/Maharam+Todd Olham/Pentagram

Originally produced for a Herman Miller-sponsored charity auction to raise money for the Peace House Foundation. These two chairs shown are a portion of the eleven total given to designers to modify.

One of the designers for Pentagram created a Pincushion chair “In our expression, the chair becomes a purely visual, rather than a utilitarian object.”

Other participants included Ayse Birsel, David Rockwell,Maharam and Todd Oldham. Celebrated designer Oldham's work received the highest bid-$3,000-of all the completed chair designs.

Gerrit Rietveld: Zig Zag/Red and Blue Chair

Maarten Bass: Where There's Smoke

The Dutch artist Maarten Bass created this exhibition "Where There's Smoke" for Moss where they state "Bass re-sculpts these design icons with flame, careful to preserve their structural integrity and thereby their original functionality. Their authorship and identity altered, they become revisionist, highly personal, audacious expressions of the artist."

Baas stamps each one with his own name after he is finished.

"Why do we want to have the same expression of beauty?" he is quoted as saying in a Washington Post article

+ more of his work HERE.

Arne Jacobsen: Egg Chair

Helen Amy Murray

The egg draped in "Peony" leather fabric by artist, Helen Amy Murray she is an internationally recognized artist for her use of hand-crafted, luxury creations inspired to create 3D surfaces within textiles.

Gebrüder Thonet: Vienna Café Chair No 18

Matthias Pliessnig: 'thonet no.18"

This piece of work pays tribute to an Gebruder Thonet, who was on of the originators of the mass-produced bent-wood chair. Pliessnig's chair is made without glueing and are instead woven together to increase the organic effect. If you can't tell with thonet model that is under the strips it is the Vienna Cafe chair no. 18.

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