Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Aluminium Stacker, british design, catering, Chair, conference, Contemporary Design, David J. Irwin, Design, designer, designer furniture, designers, furniture, Home, hotel, household, interior, interiors, kitchen, myhouseismycastle, office furniture, product, products, stacking chair
Many thanks to Core 77 for this beauty of a stacking chair design.
Aluminium Stacker by David J. Irwin is highly reminiscent of that style of cheap and tacky chairs used in hotels and cafes that want to present themselves as being “high standard” when in actual fact they are nothing more than over-priced.
Not that that is the compariosn we want to make here. The comparison is the shape, and the shape is a global succes story par excellence
What sets Irwin’s chair apart, however, is it’s “Oh so simple” stacking mechanism.
Through the inclusion of a slit in the seat the back leg passes perfectly through the seat. And beacuse the slit is exactly one front leg width from the back of the frame, the chiar stack perfectly.
The design is completed by a nylon coating to protect against wear and tear.
Aluminium Stacker by David J. Irwin
Fantastic!
Aluminium Stacker by David J. Irwin
stacks...great
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Contemporary Design, democratic design, Design, designer, designer furniture, designers, french design, german design, Home, household, interior, interior design, interiors, kitchen, kitchen furniture, meile, Philippe Starck, product, products, refrigerator, starck, table, trumpet table, warendorf
In August 2010 the German kitchen and kitchen equipment producer Miele will change its name to Warendorf.
Although Warendorf is the name of the village where Miele is based and as such we can kind-off understand the choice of the new name: A) we simply cannot understand why an established and succesful brand would decide to change its name and B) Translated into English Warendorf means “village of goods/wares/merchandise” – and as such implies some sort of tacky discount village where bus loads of pensioners go to drink coffee and buy appalling coloured pullovers.
Whatever.
As part of the relaunch Warendorf/Miele have persuaded Philippe Starck to design his first ever kitchen series.
The resulting 4 concepts are something that, for our money, couldn’t be further removed from Starck’s “democratic design” principle; rather, using classic “big” kitchen styling Starck has created kitchens that in most respects resemble the same old stuff that can be found in most large kitchen retailers showrooms.
What did impress us however, and that enough to write this post, is the concept “Tower”, where the kitchen is contained in rotating towers. And by “kitchen” we mean cooker, fridge, dishwasher etc, etc…
Now there is no way we could ever use or work with such a set-up. Or kitchen habits simply would not allow it.
However, we know a lot of people and locations where such an idea would fit perfectly and where removing the “kitchen” from the “kitchen” would positively improve aesthetic and functionality of the space.
At the moment concrete details appear a little thin on the ground, but from what we have seen we are very impressed.
Equally impressive is the part-sink: part-hob:part-seating/working “Trumpet Table” The styling is a bit too gaudish for us, but the concept is a dream and is more or less exactly what we need. Populate it with a few “Ghost” chairs and we have the basics of a dream kitchen space.
Starck by Warendorf – not the best Philippe Starck Collection ever, but a couple of excellent moments.
A representative layout of the Tower kitchen by Philippe Starck for Warendorf
Tower by Philippe Starck for Warendorf ... detail
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: american design, Brad Ascalon Studios, Chair, Contemporary Design, Design, designer, designer furniture, designers, furniture, Hightower, household, interior, interiors, myhouseismycastle, nyc, office furniture, product, products, Scribble Lounge
Yesterday, for reasons that escape us and which we are too scared to chase up, one of our regional TV stations devoted the evenings schedule to re-runs of French and Saunders.
Which we watched.
And considered why some things belong, unmistakably, to a certain time and place.
Scribble Lounge by Brad Ascalon Studios for Hightower belongs in Warsaw.
In 1974.
To call it gorgeous is almost to insult the obvious talent behind such a work.
Enjoy the pictures and think on uncomplicated days before mobile phones, twitter and Maggie Thatcher.
Scribble Lounge by Brad Ascalon Studios. Happy days!
Scribble Lounge by Brad Ascalon Studios ...
... A classic of 1970s East European design ...
... created 2009 in New York City ...
... sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!
