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Design and Innovation

Pink Thing Of The Day: Coat Check Chair By Joey Zeledón

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pink coat check chair photo by gail worley
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Industrial designer Joey Zeledón used Bauhaus Leglend Marcel Breuer’s ‘Cesca chair as a inspiration for this innovative seating design that combines the famliar continuous steel rod frame with colorful coat hangers replacing the classic cane seat and back. Spotted at 2023’s International Conetmporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), the Coat Check Chair allows the user many possibilites for personalizing the frame to suit their taste.
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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Penguin Donkey Bookcase By Egon Riss

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penguin donkey bookcase with breuer chaise photo by gail worley
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Founded in 1929, Isokon became one of the most progressive modern furnishings companies in the United Kingdom. Several former members of the Bauhaus were tapped as designers, including Marcel Breuer, whose chase lounge is on view above, and Egon Riss, who designed several zoomorphic pieces for the company, including this molded-ply bookcase (1939) that resembles a Donkey with its upturned ears.

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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Cane Side Chair By Marcel Breuer

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Breuer Chair Installation View
Installation View with Eames Shelving Unit (All Photo By Gail)

This cane side chair was the product of a team research project led by Marcel Breuer (1902 – 1981), a celebrated architect and émigré known for his tubular metal furniture, and designer of the original Whitney Museum Building on Madison Avenue in NYC. Collaborating with the US Forest Products Laboratory, Breuer applied knowledge accumulated over fifteen years of experimentation, as well as new developments in high-frequency gluing, to plywood construction.
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Arts and Culture

Modern Art Monday Presents: Claes Oldenburg, Giant BLT

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Claes Oldenburg BLT
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The triangular mass of Claes Oldenburg’s Giant BLT (Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich”) 1963, is actually constructed from many smaller sculptural components including wood slabs, stuffed cushions and fabric pieces, which must be restacked each time the work is shown, allowing ample room for creative variation. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Claes Oldenburg, Giant BLT →

Design and Innovation

Happy Birthday, Walter Gropius, Founder of the Bauhaus

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Walter Gropius, German Architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, was born on this day, May 18th, in 1883. I admit to feeling a special sort of insider kinship with the Bauhaus, not only because I love band that took its name from this forward thinking movement of Architecture and Design, but because I once worked for an architectural firm whose founding partners has previously worked with another great Bauhaus architect, Marcel Breuer. Breuer designed those cool chairs that everybody has in their kitchens.