Does that image make you say "Wow!" Yeah, me too.I saw this chair, yes it's a chair, while searching on Unica Home for furniture for a client. I went to the designer's website to find more of her amazing work. Her name is Louise Campbell, but in my house I call her Genius. I'd like to borrow her brain for a few hours. I promise I'll return it ;)
FYI, all info/descriptions below are excerpts taken directly from Campbell's website. I encourage you to check out her website for more information - I particularly like her descriptions/inspirations...
Veryround
Year: 2006
Manufacturer: Zanotta
Product status: In production
This is simply a very round chair.
Honesty
Year: 1999
Made by: Jacob Trolle
Owned by: Private collector
Materials: Ash
Photo: Erik Brahl
Product status: One-off
Inspiration a
A fine straight plank. A talented cabinetmaker. Together we are to walk the plank. In my ears, this sounds like an opportunity to make something very complicated.
Inspiration b
The fascination of a birds nest. The delicate structure, often placed far above the ground, housing both small and large creatures. The urge to lie quietly curled up and protected does not always disappear just because the body outgrows the cradle, but the facilities for doing so become more and more scarce with age.
Bille goes Zen
Design: Louise Campbell
Year: 2003, to be launched in 2006
Made by: Cabinet maker Lars Bille Christensen
Materials: Ash
Product status: One-off
One off chair designed for Walk the Plank 2003.
Owned by private collector.
Rocks sideways.
Why not?
168 joints
224 dowels
70 slats
Processed with millimeter-precision
To sit in
Rocks sideways
May be tipped backwards, so that one sits like a Banana in a fruit bowl.
Retreat
Design: Louise Campbell
Year: 1998
Materials: 4mm steel thread wrapped in 4km of white angora wool
Photo: Erik Brahl
Product status: One off
Lazy greedy chair
The house spider prefers to hang out in corners.
Here it constructs its web, which exists to catch prey – for survival.
The spider itself, however, prefers to curl up in a silk funnel at the rear of the web nearest the corner.
The funnel is the spiders retreat.
‘Blah, Blah, Blah’
Design: Louise Campbell
Year: 2008
Product status: One off
‘Blah, Blah, Blah’ at Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand /
A site specific installation has just been completed in this lovely museum in the heart of Copenhagen. The installation is a large fully functioning meeting room, which seats up to 20 people. Focus is on the enormous amount of words used during meetings, of which only a fraction are truly useful.Couldn't have said it better myself, Louisa.
Please note, I will accept the Veryround in lieu of other birthday gifts.
