When we stopped to ponder the legless back and seat of a ubiquitous faux Eames polycarbomate chair we found on the street, we suddenly realized the influence designer Martino Gamper had on our thinking, whose clever 100 Chairs in 100 Days inspire completely novel iterations.
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Stumbled on at Mondo-blogo: a great little adhoc chair repair. In addition to the cat’s-cradle-ish string design, we imagine numerous possibilities for fixing the seat of this bentwood chair carcass, using many of the materials we’ve come across over the years…
Read Morechair frame transformed with ribbon, bungees, string
We posted an ad in Craigslist looking for an assistant and found the most amazing people doing very cool things —blogs, tumblrs, writing, artworks — just…because… At Vanessa’s A City That Endures tumblr, we stumbled on the work of photographer Michael Wolf. He documents the random detritus of the man-made world and the beauty and order that underlie the…
Read Morediy wooden or tubular chair refurb with leather and cord
As we wander around the city, we often come across the often-beautiful skeletons of wood or tubular chairs and wonder what we could do with them. Usually, the structure is there, but an essential part is missing, like the seat or back. This DIY spotted on Design Millk fuels our imagination and possibility-thinking. Scraps of…
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