COCO CHANEL

"I'm for style - fashions change too often".

Thursday, January 27, 2011

10 of my favorite all time chairs

I'll start by just mentioning some quotes by Charles and Ray Eames: "The connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details, that give the product its life." "Eventually everything connects-people, ideas, objects,etc ... the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

What is a chair? It is a stable, raised surface used to sit on, usually by one person. Chairs are most often supported by four legs...and with that dictionary sentence I'll show you some memorable designers that have been defying that definition from very early years...

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Arm chair) c.1820-1825 painted cast iron with wrought iron rods.

  Thomas Jeckyll (Chair) painted cast iron with Mahoganny seat 1876
Eillen Gray Binbedum Chair1932-1934

Poul Kjaerholm Chair   pk 0, 1952

Eero Saarinen (Tulip) 1955-1956: Knoll adverstisement in 1960


Verner Panton Wire Cone 1960


Kazuhide Takahama ESA, 1968


Verner Panton, Pantower 1968-1969


Gionatan De Pas, Donato D' Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi & Carla Scolari: Blow 1967
*I had one of these when little : )


James Davis & David Walley ( Chair 10 & Chair 9) 1996



Monday, January 24, 2011

Interior Design for children

Parents for the most part strive to give their children the best of everything. That is why sometimes when working with children's bedrooms, you can allow your imagination to run as freely as your 6 year old customer. Because when its comes to kid's minds: all is possible : ) As for the parents and their budgets these grow in accordance with the child's fantasies and excitement.. Here are a couple of interesting images of children's bedrooms:


Castle in the sky bed.

Creative..
  Sail boat bed...
 A large mural on the wall is great and ties the whole concept together!

Everything works so well here..