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The World's Most Creative Chairs These are some of the worlds most creative and strangest chairs! From the ghost chair to the Obelisk Chairs and even chairs inspired by the female form! Enjoy these 20 most creative chairs! This is a Ghost Chair collection by Design Drift. The plexiglass chairs have ghost-like forms inside them, created with laser technology. The ghost is a futuristic concept of a chair, 3-dimensionally captured within the boundaries of reality. It gives you a bit of a dramatic feeling: unbelievable, high-tech, but beautiful. This oddity was designed by Allen Jones in 1969. Constructed of painted plastic and mixed media, if you want to get a closer look at it head over to the Tate Gallery in London. Exhibit A is the 1960s Female Form Fiberglass Chair ($10,500), a chair that proliferates the animal-hide trend, and takes the classic Louis XV chair to a "sensual" level — kind of like a dirty version of Philippe Starck's Louis Ghost Chair. Creative chairs by Osian Batyka-Williams. The tube chair is made from stainless steel tubes. The price? 3. 295 US dollars A Mona Lisa portrait that can be transformed into a chair (or the other way around) is a total space saver. It acts as a chair, and when unused, you can flip it up and hang it on the wall to save space. Perfect for art lovers with small apartments. This concept is by Korean designer Kwang Hoo Lee, who turns chairs into works of art for a living. Creative Mars and Venus chairs designed by Mahdi Naim. This bizarre chair is not your usual chair design. This chair design called the Pelvis Rocking Chair would be a nice addition if you were a collector of chairs with unique designs. Inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Holly Palmer has designed this unique stool that looks like a giant tea cup. The PrettyPretty seating series designed by Degana Kailjo are, according to the designer, “Pretty heads to sit on.” The PrettyPretty seating series is hand made out of horsetail hair. Due to the character of the material each piece in this limited edition series is unique; they are also signed and numbered. I know it may look like a hairy dog, but this wonderful chair was presented in the Maison&Objet fair in Paris on September 2007 as a part of the Ecological trend. This "hairy chair" (or sculpture?) is made of very fine cut paper by the Architect/Designer Charles Kaisin from Brussels. Little in the way of information is available concerning this rather hauntingly styled meat chair except to say that, the brainchild or Italian designer Simone Racheli's chair is made from plastic and finished to resemble a series of muscles and tendons. Creative chair by designer Ania Wagner is made from sustainable wood and lined with a cultivated industrial felt. The Polish design team razy2 made a chair that's built like a stack of sticky notes. The Q-Book is composed of sheets of paper, carefully cut, that are attached on one side. If you need something to write on, just tear off a sheet. This would just freak me out if I saw it at someone's house. Some restaurants change their cutlery as often as every nine months. The Cutlery Chair utilises these hard to recycle, unwanted cutlery pieces as building blocks to create truly unique pieces of functional furniture. The panda chair was designed and created by Brazilians Fernando and Humberto Campana in a numbered and limited edition of 25 chairs. This is how I want to go grocery shopping! This anthropomorphic chair was designed by Sergio Gill. The funky chair which made it to the IWF Design Emphasis Competition resembles a reclining female figure. Gill used a software program that scanned the female body then translated it into another stylizing software program called AlphaCAM. Finally, Gill used a birch plywood model with a tung oil furniture finish. The Obelisk Chairs is four powdered coated aluminum frame chairs with white cushions and a table which can stack into one piece made out of woven polyethylene. And yeah, it's cool, but how can they justify the $8,922 price tag? For that price the thing should be made out of uranium. Read more: http://www.funonthenet.in/articles/creative-chairs.html#ixzz1j6bXVSoz

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En mi estudio-taller de casa, es decir, el lugar en el que paso horas y horas, y desde hace ya años -incluso en mi anterior trabajo, mi silla era literalmente mía ;)- tengo una genial Variable Balans en rojo y haya. Un diseño de 1979 del noruego Peter Opsvik y editada por Stokke. La verdad

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Aspectos ergonómicos y funcionales Mitad silla - mitad banco Pasamos ahora a analizar distintas consideraciones a tener en cuenta para elegir o diseñar bancos y sillas de modo que el resultado sea el deseado. El asiento: Asientos Altura del asiento La ideal está en 45 ± 2 cm, la altura crece con las personas. Debe estar unos 2 cm por debajo de las corvas. Por debajo de 35 cm de altura es difícil levantarse para muchas personas, sobre todo para los mayores. A las personas que les resultan pequeños los bancos en altura, se les obliga a estirar las piernas hacia el frente, para repartir mejor el peso sobre toda la superficie de apoyo. Estas personas, para estar cómodas, deberían tener un plano inclinado donde apoyar los pies, de forma que entre pie y pierna se formase un ángulo de 90º. Fondo del asiento Lo ideal es de 40-45 cm, lo más largo posible sin que moleste a las corvas. Inclinación del asiento Hasta 5º respecto de la horizontal. En la silla de trabajo se busca que los muslos estén horizontales, en los bancos también o ligeramente caídos hacia atrás. La inclinación del asiento exige un mayor esfuerzo para levantarse, razón por la que estos bancos tienen unos pocos cm menos de altura, de forma que se favorezca la colocación de los pies de modo firme bajo el asiento. Forma del asiento Ligeramente cóncavo en la parte de atrás y convexo cerca de las rodillas, con el borde redondeado. El asiento y el respaldo pueden formar una superficie curva continua o estar separados. El borde anterior del asiento no tendrá un espesor mayor de 10 cm. Los asientos deben permitir la evacuación del agua de lluvia. Longitud del asiento La longitud del asiento libre, limitado por dos apoyabrazos, no será inferior a 1,20 m para permitir estar confortables a 2 personas que no se conocen. La longitud libre de asiento en los bancos sin respaldo o bancas, para una sola persona, es de 70 cm. Los asientos muy largos, de más de 2 m, deben dividirse con apoyabrazos. Las personas tienden a sentarse junto a un apoyabrazos, antes que a sentarse entre dos. Los apoyabrazos permiten estar más juntas a las personas sin molestarse. Los asientos largos permiten acostarse. Espacio bajo el asiento Debajo del borde anterior del asiento deberá existir un hueco de 10 cm a partir de la vertical, para colocar los pies de modo firme al levantarse. El respaldo: Banco con respaldo abatible Altura del respaldo La altura ideal es de 40-60 cm. Un respaldo muy bajo se manifiesta dolorosamente en la espalda. Un respaldo muy alto, que llegue a la altura de la cabeza, obliga a mantener ésta en una posición incómoda. Inclinación del respaldo La inclinación ideal es de 90º a 106º. La inclinación del respaldo puede crecer a medida que crece la del asiento. La inclinación del respaldo exige un mayor esfuerzo para levantarse, sobre todo si está acompañada de una inclinación fuerte del asiento. Forma del respaldo Ligeramente cóncavo en la parte inferior, para recoger la curvatura lumbar de la espalda, y convexo en la parte alta, para permitir arrellanarse sin molestar a la cabeza. Los apoyabrazos: Altura del apoyabrazos La altura ideal es de 18-26 cm, tanto menor cuanto más inclinado es el asiento. Forma del apoyabrazos Horizontal o con caída hacia atrás de acuerdo con la inclinación del asiento. Su extremo no será puntiagudo, permitirá asirse con facilidad y mantendrá un resguardo respecto del borde del asiento.

Norwegian designer Peter Opsvik developed the ‘Globe Concept‘ with the aim of making sitting active in both offices and public spaces. One of the most eye-catching pieces in the collection is the ‘Globe Garden’ chair, which was designed by Opsvik 29 years ago and was recently relaunched by Moment AB. Standing at 1.7 metres high, the […]

Vesper High Cat Lounge Tree TheV-high Cat Lounge Tree is futuristic and elegant. Made of poplar wood, this contemporary piece of scratching furniture is a unique observation deck and place to rest in one. Features: Durable scratching poles Soft memory foam cushions Water based lacquer Sturdy design Removable cushions and scratching surfaces Freestanding: Yes Weights …