The Rubber Stool

In our last lecture we saw some examples of (ancient) stools... Accidentally I came across a brand new version of a stool. When I red about the new japanese design, I discovered two things: first that rubber is also a natural material ( they mentioned rubber treeplanting) and that the stool is made in such a way that you can un-fold it and store it efficiently. This stool is made out of recycled rubber and the designers claim that its comfortable, due to the elasticity of the material. It all sounds nice, but I wouldn't want this in my living-room, would you?

Source: www.contemporist.com

New Japanese Furniture Design: the Kashiwado chair

I was searching on new Japanese Design and I came across this massive piece of wood (chair). I must say its not the most elegant or comfy chair I came across, but something about this chair kept my attention...

The chair is made by a Japanese designer, Isamu Kenmochi. The chair is made out of a 100% Japanese cedar wood and therefore weights about 80kg!!!!!!!!!!

Im not quite sure why I liked this chair, if I even like it, but Im sure that I find it interesting.

H.E.

(source: www.doobybrain.com)

"Miss Blanche"

Another creation of the Japanese designer, Shiro Kuramata, 'Miss Blanche'. They say he named it after an actress, but I think he is referring to someone else, maybe a special secret women in his life... Anyway Kuramata had a general interest in transparancy, which I like. In this chair he added plastic roses in his transparency, for me it means that the roses will never die and live in all eternity, as will the love he had for this special someone (miss blanche). I imagine that if you would sit on 'Miss Blanche' it would feel like sitting on air (with roses), almost like a dream... Speaking of dream, 'Miss Blanche' inspired me so much that I wrote a poem about her (asuming that the chair is female cause of the miss part....)