Chair of the Day

This is the ultimate Chair of the Day. I LOVE this. Isn’t it great? I think the fact that designer Maarten Baas (from the Netherlands, natch) had the guts to go through with this is amazing. Smart man, he introduced it last year at Salone del Mobile. There’s a special building with student and young designers prototypes there. It’s a good way to get great ideas funded.

The chair is made of industrial clay, hand-modeled on top of Baas-designed metal skeletons surface painted with colored lacquer. The chair comes in red, orange, black, green, black, white and yellow. It’s part of a family of Clay Furniture which includes a side table which I love almost more than the chair, a bookcase and a weird, table with a furry top. I’m dying to make a Gumby joke, but I shall restrain myself.

Clay Furniture addresses the issue of form-giving in industrial design, revealing, literally, the designer’s hand in this intimate process, today normally concealed through the use of a computer (but there, none-the-less). You can stock up on Clay at Moss. They retail for a mere $2,250. I’m saving up!

• Posted by Jennifer at 8:51 pm
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