I am really loving this cardboard sideboard designed by Reinhard Dienes. There is also a bookcase available. They are a little pricey but if you are looking to dress up your studio with a signature talking piece this would be a great place to start. They are available at Fashion 4 Home where there are several great furniture pieces available and fairly reasonable prices.
Chair Whore is an aptly named blog dedicated entirely to my most favorite object in the entire world. I’ll let you guess what it is. The above beauty was designed by Julian Mayor.
I was happy to find this just in time for the consideration of furniture options for the remodeling of my studio.
Ali Sandifer Studio is a modern furniture maker based out of Chicago, Illinois. Sandifer uses domestic wood harvested from sustainable forests. To further their environmentally sustainable ethos, whenever possible they use water-based sealants and natural oils. Storage is a key feature for several of their undeniably beautiful pieces.
If you are big into interiors and furniture like I am then you are probably always looking for that next source of inspiration for what to do with your home. The Tumblr blog of Home Sweet Home has plenty of ideas to offer up and caters to much more than the regular modern or mid-century modern appeal. I definitely stumbled upon some spaces that gave me several new ideas.
Thomas Feichtner lives and works in Linz, Austria. After his school years in Düsseldorf he graduated at the University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz. He has since established his own industrial design practice and has also established an office for visual communication. His furniture design is stunning. I am a self-professed chairoholic and Feichtner’s chair designs are absolutely fantastic.
This chair by Vladimir Tsesler (the combined works and studio of Tsesler and Voichenko) is nothing short of hot hot hot. The chair is just one tiny piece of their large and rather indescribable body of work.
Mid-Century Modernist is a blog that is about an era of design that is very near and dear to my heart. I am completely obsessed with chairs and am constantly trolling Craigslist to find a deal. Unfortunately, our home itself is not mid-century. It was built in 1940 and is a ‘Cape Cod’ style home. Fortunately, it was previously owned by an interior decorator and was completely remodled in a mid-century style. It’s a big house too, so I have been able to slowly begin filling it with the furniture that I love. The Mid-Century Modernist blog definitely gave me lots of new ideas. More than enough to drive my wife crazy.
T. M. Schmid’s Swiss furniture studio Strala has created some stunningly beautiful sculptural pieces. The chair above is a true example of furniture as art.
Isotrope Design was established in 2008 by sisters Micol and Sael Bartolucci. Their furniture is almost less furniture and more art. The furniture pieces bear a strong influence from topography and utilize materials that come together to create something genuinely unique and unarguably beautiful. I would kill to own one of their pieces, but highly doubt I could ever afford to.
I am a big fan of Blu Dot furniture design and have been searching lately for deals on some of their chairs. Consequently, I ran across their ‘Real Good Chair’ for sale at Target’s website. I was a little shocked to find Blu Dot furniture for sale at Target and even more shocked by the price tag. The chair usually goes for around $130, which is still a pretty good deal. But the light blue and red version of the chair is currently for sale at Target for only $90 plus shipping. It’s a real steal on a really well designed piece of furniture. Get it while the getting is good.
Illustrator/Designer Mattias Voss is based in Münster, Germanyand I am loving his USM Modular Furniture Prototype pictured above.
Duffy London has produced a chair that first appears to sit mysteriously only on two legs but the black metal ’shadow’ acts as a cantilever supporting the weight of the chair. Its a really cool idea and an equally cool and beautiful piece of minimal modern design. Wish I could afford the sticker price.
Sebastian Brajkovic is an unusual artist who has managed to blur the lines between graphics, sculpture and furniture creating an unusual and exciting artform that is all his own. I am sure you have seen the above image out there floating in the blogosphere but if you have yet to look at his work it is well worth a gander.
I just want to be hanging out in some of the sets that Andy Barter photographs. One of his photos features a tipped over modern chair with a pair of black lace panties thrown over the leg. It’s brilliance incarnate.
