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Eileen Gray – Transat Chair

LB — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:00:30 +0000

Superb modern chair by Eileen Gray, featured in a Guardian list this this week. It’s the Transat Chair (1925-30).

“The Transat chair is from the late 1920s, when Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand were forging in tubular steel assertive icons of the machine age.

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Artists and architects for Sawaya & Moroni

LB — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:52:54 +0000

The Italian design firm Sawaya & Moroni often commissions new furniture pieces by guest designers who are primarily artists or architects. Many design firms follow this strategy, but for some reason most of the really original design commissions come out of Sawaya & Moroni.

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Best bench/seating platform, and of course it’s Australian

LB — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:24:35 +0000

This is the ur-seating platform. Think how many people would gather here at a party, and even Le Chat prefers it. This is from a house in St. Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

inside

LB — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:31:30 +0000

Photos via inside (photo above is at insideinside.tumblr.com), one of the best curated tumblelogs on tumblr. Well-named, also. And see its sister site, outside, which is equally good.

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Whatever happened to the seating platform, the conversation pit?

LB — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:55:52 +0000

Above, the 1970s modern two-level platform in painter Frank Stella’s loft, from the classic book Inside Today’s Home. Below, a recent photo of the renovated 1950s conversation pit in the Number 31 Hotel in Dublin.

High Line Park, two weeks from opening but already beautiful

LB — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:21:21 +0000

Of course the High Line park didn’t open on time for our New York trip – the first phase now opens June 15 – but at least we got to see all the frantic final activity from our hotel window.

Molo

LB — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:02:11 +0000

Just a few blocks up the road from my studio is the workshop of Vancouver’s Molo Design. You’ve probably seen their accordioning softseating or their softwall room dividers which are now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

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