Customizing the Eames Chair
I have to say, I think this beats the Eames molded plastic rocker that I have in bright red. Drawn by hand, the custom designs for the chairs are done by NY illustrator Mike Perry – and are pretty feckin’ dope.
.:first seen over at Design Milk->
Posted: March 4th, 2010
at 11:20pm by orangemenace
Tagged with furniture, design, illustration, chair, Eames, Mike Perry
Categories: furniture,illustration,design
Comments: 3 comments
Photo du Jour 02.03.2010
[photo by Christina Römer]
Designboom has a recent post featuring a number of photos named winners and honourable mentions of a competition launched by the German company Thonet. The competition? To photograph the iconic Thonet no. 214, as a way to celebrate its 150th anniversary.
214: It is often called the chair of all chairs – and rightfully so. traditionally-made chairs had handcrafted joints. Then, around 1850, michael thonet made production cheaper by bending the wooden components using steam and simply screwing them together. No other chair has ever been reproduced as many times.  To date, more than 50 million copies have been made. And thonet is still producing it following the original well-tried and proven principles. Chair no. 14, today 214, is considered the most successful industrial product in the world.
Basically, I just thought the photo was dope – check out the Designboom post for more.
Posted: March 2nd, 2010
at 10:04am by orangemenace
Tagged with furniture, photography, chair, Thonet Chair no. 214
Categories: architecture,photographie,furniture,design
Comments: 2 comments
