Stockholm 2014: Berlin design studio Osko + Deichmann has extended its range of kinked
tubular steel chairs for Swedish brand Blå Station.
Keimeier's Recycle Lights have earned a place in the exhibition «Adventure with Objects» alongside pieces such as «the first curved wooden furniture from Thonet, the seats and furnishings of Jean Prouvà ©, Charles and Ray Eames and Alvar Aalto, the domestic architecture of Le Corbusier, the first examples of
tubular steel chairs by Mies van der Rohe in the 1920s, and important pieces by contemporary designers such as Ron Arad or Fernando and Humberto Campana»».
Not exact matches
Also included are well - known designs still in regular production, such as Prouvé's «Standard
Chair,» and the classic leather
tubular steel LC7 Swivel
Chair designed by Perriand in collaboration with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret.
Marcel Breuer's
tubular steel Club
Chair, 1925 - 6, was inspired by the frame of his bicycle, and was designed to be easily dismantled for economical transportation.
The contribution from Glasgow's Lighthouse museum is an exhibition of work by Marcel Breuer, the Bauhaus architect who used a pair of bicycle handlebars as the inspiration for a
chair, creating a design classic in
tubular steel in the process.
A geometric arrangement of
tubular stainless -
steel chairs, all of which have fur coats casually hung over the backs, adorn the gallery like classical Greek sculptures.
Stockholm 2010: Berlin designers Osko + Deichmann are exhibiting a collection of colourful
chairs made of
tubular steel folded into sharp bends at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week.
So Thonet made
chairs out of bentwood and cane; Aalto used bent plywood; Marcel Breuer out of
tubular steel.
«Mies van der Rohe wrote of one of his
tubular -
steel chair designs that it could be «easily moved by anyone and because of its sled - like base it can simply be pushed across the floor.»
Lighter - feeling pieces that had more negative space than heft helped achieve this: open glass shelving, a pair of
tubular steel frame
chairs, a simple wood coffee table with an X-shaped metal base, Lucite - and - metal seats in the dining area, and lots of airy, crystal chandeliers.
In 1927, he met Lilly Reich, a Bauhaus alumnus who collaborated with Mies on his first versions of a cantilevered
chair with a
tubular steel frame.
But since the late 1920s it has also made
chairs in chrome - plated
tubular steel including designs by luminaries including Marcel Breuer, Mart Stam and Mies van der Rohe.