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Swing Delight!

Here’s a sneak peek at the Arioso Swing for the upcoming Maison et Objet exhibition this September. It’s your standard fair of powdered coated steel and golden teak wood but form meets function beautifully here because the Arioso Swing lets you lounge sun bathing style or throw a couple cushions on and you’ve got instant outdoor living room furniture. It’s a simple idea but effective. I love the feeling of being suspended.

Designer: Rossukon Horangchai

Extremely Painful Furniture

These awkward yet visually spectacular seats are the product of the wild mind of Helmut Palla. Helmut is part of an exhibition by the name of “Furniture as Trophy” featuring the phenomenon of animal materials in furniture design. These chairs plus a rather wonderful coffee table with antlers make up Palla’s contribution to the show.

Designer: Helmut Palla

Park It, Mister

Paving paradise for a place to sit. That’s what’s going on here. A project from Springtime that saves a seat for your own booty in a play on the culture-cemented idea of a parking space. Part of a design competition that aimed to give a parking space back to the public. “Person Parking” seems to be made for a low-traffic area in a strip mall district, don’t you think?

Designer: Springtime

Wood Flat Seat

In the future, everything will be flat. Did you know? Everything will fold down into nothing. Also there will be no need for dust covers because we’ll have dust-repellant paper! But we’ll still need wood. And we can replenish our wood supply with trees. And we can replenish our flat stool supply with wood. Serdar Sişman’s made us a flat stool that’s made entirely of wood. Flat wood. Savvy?

Designer: Serdar Sişman

Couch System for the Mobile Generation

It is called “Diagonal” and it contains only two elements. There’s the two types of padded movables, and the screen. The screen is meant to be a guide and an anchor point for the movable bits. The movables are cushioned and come in two heights. The shorter, lighter ones are for sitting, while the taller, darker ones are for laptops and other similar devices. Definitely for the cross-legged sitter.

Designer: o4i/office4ideas

Inflatable Couches for Refined Beachgoers

Or for… wherever else you’d like to put them! Presenting the Blofield collection of blow-ups. For when you’re in the woods and you really, really need to sit in a chesterfield. Or if you’re feeling like you need a blow-up sofa for your dog who will not sleep on anything but a sofa. Available in several colors! With nice power inflater and matching carrying case!

Designer: Blofield Inflatable Chesterfields

You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record)

I relate a lot of stuff to songs you know; like the time when I wrote the K-95 USB Flash Drive post, the song that popped into my mind was the Yellow Submarine by Beatles. When I look at this seat, which is clearly inspired by the Mexican toy El Trompo (top), it reminds me of the Dead or Alive song You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record). Quite like the vinyl, the TOtoyO spins a complete 360º and best of all, if you remove the inner cushion, it doubles up as a stadium for your Trompo or Babelade. Wicked!

Designer: Victor Aleman

Sit on It, Serralunga!

Well, what’ve we got here? A versatile little seat contraption eh? Yeah, yeah, that’s what it is. Wait! It’s also a planter! Wait! It’s also a side-table, as they call them. This is exactly the octohedron I’ve been searching for all my furniture-seeking life. Isn’t a strange corner we turn around when at first we seek out a seat for our very own?

Designer: AquiliAlberg

Eames Select Molded Plywood Chair

Herman Miller is providing its customers with an exclusive program intended to enrich their connection to the world’s most renowned product designs. Called Herman Miller Select, the program offers an opportunity to own a limited edition product released once a year with a distinct characteristic for collector appeal.

Designer: Herman Miller [ Buy It Here ]

I Like Pleats So Much, I Bought the Chair

Imagine a sofa so comfortable, you’ll think you’re at a very fancy Fourth of July parade. This sofa is crafted of precision steel. This sofa has a seat and back of clothed polyurethane foam produced and sponsored by Recticel. This seat is gold. Now wake up! You aren’t dreaming. Here is the “Pleats-Pleats” seat for all your pleats and pleats needs and needs.

Designer: Daniel Hedner at Imaginary Office

A Chair Made of Rubber

Wait. Not made of rubbers. Made of rubber. And not made entirely of rubber, but the joints are made of rubber. And the skin is made of rubber. The chair is made of a regularly solid material (wood or metal of some sort), while the joints and the skin of the chair are made of rubber. You may bend and turn any way you wish, without breaking or busting. Don’t bend too far, however, as the chair has not been rendered fall-on-your-head-proof.

Designer: Pepe Heykoop

Skateboard Deck Chair for the Old or Fantastic

If you’re a crazed art collector with little to no cash, you are a paradoxical sort of person. If you collect “street art”, you’ve got two options: pay the toll, or find it on “lesser” canvases. One of the more odd to display products in this category is the skateboard deck. Guess who’s got your back?

The design team at Tunto.

Designer: Tunto Design

Move Over Arne Jacobsen, There’s a New Egg In Town

Okay, so maybe this new “Egg” chair has some ground to cover before eclipsing the Jacobsen classic, still, it’s a lovely, comfortable looking arm chair to relax and play some Xbox in.  Designed by Denis Syplenko as a one-off project it does not appear to be in production.  That being said, a couple bean bags and a sewing machine (or maybe just duct tape) might garner you with something of its general dimensions.

Designer: Denis Syplenko