Just because a piece of furniture is beautiful doesn’t mean it just has to sit there as a piece of eye candy. Martin Ballendat’s P@d lounge chair would look right at home alongside a modern living room set, while it hides a secret set of fold-out trays strong enough to support a laptop.
The Medici Chair is a contemporary piece inspired by traditional craftsmanship. It was designed for Mattiazzi by Konstantin Grcic, who got his start as a cabinet maker.
Finding the perfect ambient temperature for a crowded office is harder than tracking down the Higgs Boson. So instead of searching for the elusive thermostat setting that pleases everyone, a company called Temptronics puts that control in the hands, or butts, of every employee with a temperature-controlled chair.
Never make a guest sit on an uncomfortable metal folding chair again with this exquisite emergency seat designed by d-Vision. It stays hidden in your living room, unfolding like an origami puzzle from a minimalist side table when needed.
Houston-based architect Paul Kweton has designed the perfect chair to share with your pet. The Rocking-2-gether Chair is made of computer-milled Birch plywood, with removable ribs that allow you to customise the look of your rocker and a hollow inner-chamber below the seat, for your dog or cat to nap in.
Fresh out of the 2012 Milan Furniture Show comes this gorgeous chair from upstart Dutch designers Kranen/Gille.
Have you ever noticed that the desks in your office form a cubicle version of Rome’s Circus Maximus? And since battling lions and gladiators to determine who gets the last doughnut was phased out before you joined the company, perhaps a winner-takes-all chariot race is more appropriate?
Comic fans can be pretty rabid in their loyalty to their favourite heroes. They hoard crates upon crates of musty old issues. They cosplay at conventions. And they, apparently, buy and sit in pleather gaming chairs with images of their favourite Marvel characters stuck down the middle of them.
Traditionally, chairs that are designed to be easy to stack and store focus more on functionality than aesthetics. So thank you Calligaris for going a few extra miles with its stylish new Skin chairs providing some much needed comfort… for the eyes.
The whole 3D thing wasn’t quite a success when it came to convincing people to come back to theatres instead of just downloading movies at home. But you know what they say — if at first you don’t succeed, try adding a rumble feature to theatre seats.
