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The Big Swoop Chair

You’ll be rocking in this. When I first looked at it, I thought it was a giant Pringles chip. But it’s not! And it’s no less tasty! It’s beautiful and innovative too, incase you hadn’t already guessed. It’s designed and crafted in Northumberland, England* by the excellent Jolyon Yates. This chair is known as the “Breeze” or aka “Savannah Rocker III”, whichever slips off your lips easier. Surely your tongue is already replicating the shape of the chair.

Have a sit!

Designer: Jolyon Yates

Realize the Stud

It’s more than just a stud, it’s two studs. Right here we’ve got a table and chair set by the name of “Stud.” It’s heavy on the stud, easy on the sitting at the table chilling out, fabulous on the eyes. This Stud refers to a small button or earring in that together, the stud chair and table appears to be wearing tiny earrings itself! Designer Cho Hyung Suk aimed here to create a chair composed of only one module. Here it is. Stay seated.

Designer: Cho Hyung Suk

Furniture for Leaping On

Truly it is the law of all children that one must find it his or her duty as a young human to decide the jumpability of each and every piece of furniture in their own environment. Yes! Furniture was mean to be played upon. But lo! It was no designed that way. And so! Here comes a brillaint designer mind by the name of Kaja Osholm Kjølås to lead the way with “Buskas,” a set of furniture to INSPIRE play for all kids.

Designer: Kaja Osholm Kjølås

Forget the Chair Back

Sometimes you just forget to complete your project. This might SEEM like one of those times, but I say thee nay! This is meant to be exactly what it’s called, the “Uncompleted Chair.” When one lives in a tiny apartment, one finds a place for every essential thing. Or one gets a dirty apartment and one gets kicked out of the complex! So the design duo Chia-Wei, Lin and Jui-Lu, Shih whipped up this chair that’s a container for umbrellas.

Designer: Chia-Wei, Lin and Jui-Lu, Shih

Fold, Fold, Fold, Chair!

Inspired by your favorite kind of paper modification in the whole, world, oragami! That’s what this chair right here is. The Opa chair, Designed by Industrial Design student Daniel Levin who is currently in class at Shenkar College in Israel. You’ll see the influence of the ancient paper folding art right away, right when you glance into the eyes of this lovely chair that I’d never be able to have on my wood flooring. You bet!

Designer: Daniel Levin

My Chair Is Alive

If this were a horror movie, it would give me the creeps to announce a chair that comes to life when touched. But this isn’t the movies and we are discussing innovative design! The Astonishing Jack is basically a stool that blooms into a chair when it comes into human contact. Weird? Nope just interactive thinking and loads of fun!

Designer: Arthur Bodolec

A Single Sheet Seat

Don’t you just love it when something seemingly complicated turns out to be made out of one brilliantly folded piece of material? Well you’re in luck, there’s one of those sorts of things sitting in this post right here! It’s the “Faltsessel,” aka folded lounge chair, and it’s made from one single piece of aluminum, folded ever-so precisely into a lined chair defined by its bend edges. Manufactured in Germany, where they also offer it covered in three different kinds of buffalo skin.

Designer: Von Arne Amtsfeld for DUA

Dead Wood for Books

For books to sit on, that is. Not to be. Although when you think about it, all real books are made of dead wood pulp. Unless it’s… LIVING DEAD PULP! Ahhh! But that’s not what we’re here about today. Today right here now we’re talking about the “Zen Bench.” This bench / bookshelf amalgamation is the tops when it comes to looking amazing while holding either books or butts. Designed by an intensely named Latvian, Raimonds Cirulis.

Designer: Raimonds Cirulis for Studio Maffam

All for the Nook

Lemme show you this bit of furniture that goes by the name “Nook.” It’s a stool object made by award winning dude designer Patrick Frey, who has chosen here to use a kind of high-tech plastic never before used in furniture design. This plastic is called VarioLine®, and it’s totally slick. Each stool is folded out of a single sheet of VarioLine® and fixed with an aluminum catch on the flip flop side. Weather proof, weird, wild, and comes in array of colors.

Designer: Patrick Frey for VIAL

Foundry at Cologne 2010!

Hooray Cologne! What’s better than a design fair in the spring? A design fair in the spring with Foundry! The design group known as Foundry, an excellent group of folks based in Singapore, just exhibited their new works in imm Cologne 2010 design fair. And wouldn’t you know it, they’ve shared a bit of that lovely tea-time with us! And now we share it with you!

Designer: Foundry

My Back Not Flat

What you’re about to see here is a bunch of perfection in triangular and wave-tastic dimensions. It’s the clarity that makes this particular set of three seats the greatness it is. The name of this project is “Skeie| | Wave” because Skeiel AS is the name of the group that designed it, and WAVE is what’s going on in the back of the seat. Made for locations that tend to the education and entertainment departments of the world; these seats, since there’s not too much to them, must be like I said: perfect.

Designer: Skeie AS

Oh Sucha Simple Bench

So you are just totally tired of all those wild and crazy pieces of furniture, ya? You’re thinking that why in the world would you make a bench like a banana when you could just as easily sit on a log? Well that’s a silly thing to say, logs get all icky when it rains out. But! What if you make a bench of metal and sealed wood? That’d be alright, right? Yes totally. Let’s take a look at this, the “Hover Bench” from Kristoffer Kjær.

Designer: Kristoffer Kjær

A Swell Rockin Lounger

So you’ve got one big wooden plate, right? What are you gonna do with it? Make an ashtray? No. That’s a terrible idea. Instead, I’ve got basically the best idea. Actually it was Marietta Moraweg who had the idea, then totally designed it and had it executed. It’s got so many parallel cuts in it, you’re going to be lounging for basically forever. All summer long, anyway, I bet. And from where I’m posting, that’s kinda starting basically right now, it’s springtime. Time to rock.

Designer: Marietta Moraweg