Cool furniture, design objects and desiderata

[gomestar]

i feel like Carlo Mollino's stuff is an interesting in between of SkinnyGoomba and Cappellini.

 

[TheFoo]

Because they both have wood for wood?

 

[gomestar]

some of the designs are pretty wild. But still lots of wood.

 

[TheFoo]

I know, I know--more MCM.

But it is astonishingly contemporary looking. If Jasper Morrison didn't have it to be inspired by, he would have designed something like it himself.

 

[gomestar]

these:

 

[TheFoo]

Where is the cold rationality that is the core of all good design?

 

[StephenHero]



If you have a meaningful critique, I'm happy to hear it.

I'm still trying to find out why your essential qualification for a chair is a pedestal, which you don't see when you're sitting in it, and additionally, how the ugliest chair I've ever seen somehow musters the aesthetic rationale that your pedestal qualification is predicated on. Furthermore, the living room as designer furniture showroom has had its day.

 

[TheFoo]

Did I say I liked it merely because it is a pedestal?

I think the ideal chairs to go with the Saarinen table are those on pedestal bases because it follows the concept of the table: to clear up the visual space beneath the table that is usually cluttered with legs. It looks better from a distance and feels better when using the space. No chair legs to knock your feet into.

 

[StephenHero]

You'll hit your feet on the pedestal of the table anyway.

 

[Kaplan]

Foo, the heft of the Chair One makes it sound like a major hassle to use as a dining chair - don't you usually pull your chair in under you when sitting down at the dinner table?

Instead I would suggest this:

A friend of mine are using these to good effect as dining chairs w/ a round table on a Tulip like base. Granted, his table top is 2 inches thick solid wood, so a bit more rustic than a Tulip top.

I realise you mentioned not requiring comfort beyond sitting down to eat, but the Brno chair is great for comfortable post dinner conversation, which may be useful, if only once in a while.

 

[Piobaire]

It must be my rural and very plebeian upbringing but some of the best hours of my life have been spent lingering at the dining room table. Do the beautiful people not do this? It would probably explain why they are all thin...

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

Pio it nearly takes a cattle prod to move people from the dining table to a sitting room in my place. Not sure why, my dining chairs are not that comfortable.

 

[TheFoo]

FYI, the Chair One is actually fairly comfortable.

 

[Axelman 17]

I think of all the ideas that foo has obstinately pursued (breast wallet, one shoe, one shirt, jacket button conversion, 6x1 DBs etc) this is the single worst. I like the chair but it just isn't functional. Get one for your living room and something else for the table.

 

[Kaplan]

Hopefully many more will realise that offering advice here isn't a waste of time.

At all.