Ah, the ubiquitous stacking chair. It seems that almost everyone has dabbled a bit in this design over the years, and the wheel is still being reinvented, so to speak, as evidenced by Knoll's 1999 Cirene by Vico Magistretti, the 2000 Gigi by Marco Maran and 2004 chair by Ross Lovegrove.
A quick Google of "stacking chairs" will show just how many designers and manufacturers have come out with their versions, yet very few, if any, significant changes or improvements have been made over the last 6 1/2 decades. Enough already!
The Stacking Chair
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| Charles and Ray Eames - 1948 treadwaygallery.com |
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| Ray Komai - 1949 1stdibs.com |
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| Georg Leowald - 1955 architonic.com |
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| Arne Jacobsen Chair 3107 - 1955 designmuseum.org |
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| Robin Day for Hille - 1963 telegraph.co.uk |
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| Cirene chair by Vico Magistretti - 1999 knoll.com |
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| Gigi chair by Marco Maran - 2000 vastudc.com |
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| Ross Lovegrove for Knoll - 2004 knoll.com |
They are so nice I would never stack the wood chairs for fear I would scratch them.
ReplyDeleteStacking chairs - never thought of them being a design as much as a convenience. I remember stacks of plastic chairs in our school rooms - a happy image for sure.
ReplyDelete@John Bachman: I agree. I really like the Komai chairs, and I'd handle them with kid gloves.
ReplyDelete@DearHelenHartman: Who knew when we were kids that we were sitting on good design in the school cafeteria?
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