Eyeliner & Bamboos

I loved the Perspective Chair but the new one? Oh lawdy! Lol. The chair comes in four colors: white, black, blue and a pink one that won’t be avaliable until January. The Tank Chair will be on display at The Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery in Miami for Art Basel.

Can’t you just imagine thes benches saying that? Aren’t they ganster? Lol. C.H. Briggs, along with DuPont and local Philly fabricators to create these contemporary benches made entirely of DuPont Corian. The Corian Bench Inventions will be exhibited in three locations throughout Philly til the end of Oct.

Cheungvogl‘s latest project, the Umarmung, is a floor-sitting couch with a backrest that supports the body in comfortable positions while sitting on the floor. The gradual curved profile receives the body whether it is sitting up straight or leaning back; its floating shape simply translates its functional qualities into singular aesthetics. It was inspired by the long tradition of floor-sitting culture in Japan where the connection between the body and conversations is not restricted to universal seat height and conventional definition of sofa.

Much to our surprise, through our research and conversations with local manufacturers, the floor-sitting couch is unknown and non-existent in Japan furniture design other than the zaisu chair (legless chair) used for tatami room.

Ha. Damn. Lol. I shouldn’t be laughing. I’m leaving now..

Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool, I just can’t imagine sitting on it. Can you?

Sooo anyways, this is the Reverb Chair created by Brodie Neill. It’s made from Nickel Plated Aluminum and will be featured at The Apartment Gallery in London.

Hand-formed and mirror-polished from sheet aluminium, the single inverted skin evolves to provide function, yet is poised in a sculpturally dynamic pose. The highly reflective surface amplifies the tapering typology through a transition from curvaceous seat into the elliptical vortex of the back stabilizer. Inspired by the reverberation of sound, the Reverb Chair’s membrane flows outward before returning back into itself.  Born from the pursuit to push materials to their limits, the fluting form is both seamless in structure as it is in surface.

I’d be scared to sit on this thing, wouldn’t you? But anyways, Dutch designer Teun Fleskens  created this public seating product called CHITCHAT.

Waiting in public spaces could certainly be more pleasurable, thinks Teun Fleskens, and with that goal in mind he designed the CHITCHAT. A piece of seating furniture for up to seven people that literally rocks. Whoever sits on it makes the piece of furniture and those who are already sitting on it move, which almost always stimulates social interaction between them. It is both surprising and amusing, and you start chatting about it with your neighbour. Strangers work together to find the best balance. The ice is broken, the atmosphere has improved, and waiting has quickly become much less boring. The ‘rocking trees’ in the centre ensure a playful effect, especially when there are several CHITCHATS in a single space.