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La Chaise - Designed by Charles & Ray Eames
Designer: Charles & Ray Eames
Charles & Ray Eames designed La Chaise in 1948 for a competition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, inspired by “Floating Figure”, a sculpture by Gaston Lachaise. It is the unbelievable elegance of this assertive seating sculpture that enables any number of sitting and reclining positions, which is so very appealing. It has long since established itself as an icon of Organic Design.
Materials: two bonded fiberglass shells, chromed rod base with natural oak cruciform foot.
La Chaise - Designed by Charles & Ray Eames
Designer: Charles & Ray Eames
Charles & Ray Eames designed La Chaise in 1948 for a competition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, inspired by “Floating Figure”, a sculpture by Gaston Lachaise. It is the unbelievable elegance of this assertive seating sculpture that enables any number of sitting and reclining positions, which is so very appealing. It has long since established itself as an icon of Organic Design.
Materials: two bonded fiberglass shells, chromed rod base with natural oak cruciform foot.
How High The Moon - Designed by Shiro Kuramata
Brand: Vitra
Designer: Shiro Kuramata
With “How High The Moon” Kuramata succeeded in reducing shape to a minimum. Backrest, armrests and seat have been reduced to a simple cubic forms and executed in expanded metal. The shimmering, dematerialized surface is reminiscent of pale, glowing moonlight, the name is borrowed from a song by Duke Ellington.
Materials: nickel plated expanded metal mesh, coated in epoxy resin.
W.W. Stool - Designed by Philippe Stark
Brand: Vitra
Designer: Philippe Starck
For film director Will Wenders, Philippe Starck designed a fantasy office environment. This filigree design is more a sculpture that can be used as a stool or a support for users who prefer to stand than an item of furniture intended to be purely functional.
Materials: varnished sand-cast aluminium.
Red Beaver - Designed by Frank Gehry
Brand: Vitra
Designer: Frank Gehry
The 1983 “Experimental Edges” were Gehry’s second collection of cardboard furniture. Generously proportioned, they take classic armchairs as their motif. Their pronounced round shapes guarantee nothing if not cosiness, their frayed edges are play on and old piece of furniture that has seen better days, on which time has taken its toll. With Red Beaver Gehry adds a new object, and indeed a new dimension to the Experimental Edges – colour.
Material: dyed corrugated cardboard
Red Beaver - Designed by Frank Gehry
Brand: Vitra
Designer: Ronan & Erwan Bourollec
The 1983 “Experimental Edges” were Gehry’s second collection of cardboard furniture. Generously proportioned, they take classic armchairs as their motif. Their pronounced round shapes guarantee nothing if not cosiness, their frayed edges are play on and old piece of furniture that has seen better days, on which time has taken its toll. With Red Beaver Gehry adds a new object, and indeed a new dimension to the Experimental Edges – colour.
Material: dyed corrugated cardboard
Bad Tempered Chair - Designed by Ron Arad
Brand: Vitra
Designer: Ron Arad
The design of Bad Tempered Chair dates back to the legendary Well Tempered Chair which marked the beginning of the collaboration between Ron Arad and Vitra. In formal terms, Bad Tempered Chair is largely identical to the original model but instead of being made of sheet steel metal, this chair is manufactured from a newly developed plastic that considerably improves the chairs practical usefulness.
Materials: glass and carbon fibre laminate.
Note: Product being phased out
Hocker - Designed by Herzog & de Meuron
Brand: Vitra
Designer: Herzog & de Meuron
With its intuitive and equally self-evident shape “Hocker” represents fundamental aspects of the conceptual style of work of Herzog & de Meuron. It forms a part of a series of additional objects and installations that accompany the architectural design work of the Basle architects as independent projects.
Material: solid birch, varnished white or impregnated dark brown.
