by Sven R. Ohlson on May 19, 2008
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There are lots of different places in homes or restaurants made or thought to be made for dining in. This way of recreation with family, friends or business-relations means you want to give the chamber the right emotional feeling to your guest. This dining-room chair is elegant and stylish made in black, piano-blanc dark wood and has a checkered soft seat with a high back – the high back to give the room a hint of the chairs even when the guests are sitting in the salon. Three brass bars “…to give a little warmth…” as Josef Frank would say – and brass-coating on the bottom of the legs of the chair. The top of the back has a slight bend to give a nicer feel when you lift the chair and a slight rising part at the outer end corner to give extra lift and ending of the frame.
The chair could be made in several types of wood too and also different seating materials. The pattern I made before could also be an alternative – that one with a reddish-brown type of wood or even a red or green coloured chair. Now, these options are endless and my tip would be to decide first when you know where the chair will be used and for what purpose. Surrounding environment can also be very influential in your decision concerning this dinning-room chair. This is the fifth chair made for Wohill!
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by Sven R. Ohlson on May 9, 2008
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This is one more chair-model in the “Flows” series. A flower-inspired seat made for sitting of course. This chair as you can see in the front view actually looks rather common. If you check out the side view it has a foot far away from the seat. This chair will have a slight swaying feeling when you sit in it. It can be moved left or right so you easily can float around in the room. The main seat is made in white polished and waxed glass-fibre to give it a flower-head look. The seat is purple and very soft just as the number 03 chair. Both the seats I designed are thought to be in large apartments or big spaces that let each chair act out its specialities – swaying and moving. For the materials in the swaying stem of the flower I would use a steel tube or maybe carbon-fibre. Even a combination of both would actually be the best alternative.
I feel like making even more versions of this chair-series … so there might come a few more soon again. Would be great fun to build a prototype too!
I’ll have to make a symbol or logotype for these series of chairs some day – probably would like to enhance the shapes used to design the chairs!
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by Sven R. Ohlson on May 7, 2008
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A chair or sofa gives the room a lot of impact, naturally depending on the size of the chair or sofa – or the room. No matter whatever you want to call it – I would say that it can give an uplifting feeling to sit in a chair like this one. The thing is that you can enjoy the seating and the sitting experience at the same time. Here there is an island in the middle, this being the base of the chair, with plants growing and reaching up into the room. Rising slowly and moving slightly all the time. Here you grab a flower and turn it over – there is a soft sitting area for the tired and less inspired. Sit softly down and the flower will slowly and carefully lift you up. This slight movement will give you new perspectives of the chair and the surrounding room. So it’s a flower and a seating-area… So these chairs should be called “Flows” – flower-seats. So when you have floated enough, just stand up and the flower will then return to its upside-down position again – fluffing up the nice soft seating-area again for its next guest sitter.
So sit down and let your eyes get busy… if getting nauseas – just close them and dream.
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by Sven R. Ohlson on May 2, 2008
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The chair you see here is also made for a lounge in a public place or thought to fit a greater production-scheme. That thought – I had for the last chair too. If you look at the different parts of the chair – they are made using only a few shapes. So one can use the sitting part as the back support and so forth. That would keep the production-coasts low. Even though the bars are thought to be made of plexi-glass to give the lighter feeling, like ”chair 01” I wrote about in the last article, I chose to make an alternative design to that chair. This ”chair 02” could easily be made into a sofa for two or three people. One could use the bars as legs on a table too. All is up to one’s imagination. This chair would be nice to have in an airport-lounge where travellers could sit and relax and enjoy the shapes of the other chairs.
The armrests could also be made in solid wood or in chrome bars. The different materials of choice would of course have to vary depending on the surroundings. So if you are building an airport or an airport lounge I’ll be glad to help out – designing.
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by Sven R. Ohlson on April 30, 2008
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A chair can raise the feeling in the room – or set the tone in a good or bad way – hopefully in a good way. I really enjoy chairs and designing them. Through the years I have designed some TV-studios, store decor and convents equipped with furniture. For some I have had to design the furniture and for some I have to choose exciting furniture. Most exciting is of course to design everything oneself. Everything usually depends on the budget – but nothing stops me from thinking about it or having the urge to design a few things now and then.
This time I made a suitable for a lounge or airport. This image is intended to have a white leather with chromed steel legs. The chrome legs could also be made of plexi-glass tubes – that would give a really free and light feeling even though the chair itself is quite wide. There is a support part underneath to support a little under your calves – since you might want to rest them a bit extra if you are sitting in a lounge waiting either for your flight or for someone you are about to meet. We will see if there could be some more furniture for the lounge in the future.
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