PRODUCT LIBRARY
the aim of le témoin was, as with many of the artist’s works, to adapt a surrealist object to everyday use.
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a transparent panel on the floor of the office furthers the connection to the outdoors.
equipped with a 32 kWh battery and a 637 HP three-phase motor, the porsche 935 moby X claims to be as fast as the gas ones.
optimized for the urban commuter, CLIP features a sleek black frame with brushed aluminum side panels.
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thanks dextersdragon.
the dining chair for habitat also has interesting similarities, although here the single-piece seat-back/arm-rest is not acting structurally and it’s less formally resolved.
http://twentyfirstcenturyretro.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/robin-day-chair.jpg
thanks dextersdragon.
seems like your links confirm a Hille chair by Day from 1965.
http://twentyfirstcenturyretro.com/tag/robin-day/
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There is a good selection of Luciene’s textiles design to buy on this website –
http://www.classictextiles.com/day.html
Not Wegner, definately Robin Day
Intriguing because at first I could only Robin Day’s chair I could find that was similar was his ‘675’ dining chair designed for Hille and more recently reproduced by Habitat.
The resemblance wasn’t close enough so I keep looking until unearthing these photos of Robin Day chairs sold on eBay last summer –
http://twentyfirstcenturyretro.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/bvchcw2kkgrhgoh-d4ejlll0wegbkqgrertq_12.jpg
http://twentyfirstcenturyretro.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/bvcgbgmkkgrhgoh-d8ejlllzkdlbkqgq6i58g_12.jpg
I asked several furniture and product designing friends to help identify it but unfortunately no one could come up with a name or reference number for the chair.
You’re quite right in spotting its striking similar to the ‘Monza’ chair. It would appear that Konstanin owes a nod in Robin’s direction
Either way it is fantastic that these seminal British designers are getting some well earned international credit. For although the New York Times rather sniffingly described them in the past as “a bit like the Eameses, but English”. I believe they were every bit as good as their American counterparts, though unlike the Eames, the Days tended to work independently with Lucienne as Textile Designer and Robin as a Product Designer.
This little exercise has proven to me that they Days profile really needs to be raised!
Are any of these fabrics available now?
err should be because….that back does look like Wegner but can’t find confirmation either way. A Wegner piece in a Day exhibit? Anyone else put us right here?
Question for Peter Fiell…..?
Bill,
the chair should be by Hans Wegner
does anyone know the name of the chair on the left in the first image? it looks like grcic’s monza chair for plank.