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Nendo has done it again with another ingenious chair! Japanese design studio Nendo’s Transparent Chair appears as only backrest and arm rests but is a fully functioning chair wrapped in polyurethane film. a transparent material that is commonly used as a packing material for precision instruments and products susceptible to vibrations and shock. Nendo was able to use this material in a chair due to its high elasticity and ability to return to its original state.

The work of Nendo continues to invite the viewer into their creations for something a little unexpected and pleasant. the plastic chair seems to invisibly support one’s weight and form into a hammock while one’s body seems to float in space to other viewers.

London interior designers and stylists Studio Toogood  invited food and design collective Arabeschi di Latte  to serve black food to guests at midnight dinners in a darkened apartment in Milan last week. Waitresses at the Underkitchen dinners wore perspex headpieces designed by Faye Toogood with milliner Zara Gorman and food included cheese served on coal, burned artichokes, bread dyed with squid ink and eggs cooked in black tea.

Titled Natura Morta, the Italian term for “still life”, the installation at Erastudio Apartment Gallery presented Toogood’s second furniture collection, Assemblage 2 . The outsized still lifes showcased in this provocative exhibition, which are composed from an abstract collection of hand-made and found objects, celebrate the darker side of the natural world. By replacing the delicate sycamore, brass and Portland stone found in Toogood’s first collection with more elemental materials, Assemblage 2 seeks to reinterpret its clean geometric forms made using leather, sand-cast aluminium, melted pewter, bronze, wax and resin.

Now that I finally have the opportunity to design my own beach house we have been sourcing our favourite pieces of Danish furniture from here and abroad. Nothing suits the style more than the design classics of Borge Mogensen. His range for Fredericia encapsulates the worn in casual beach style we have created. The J39 chair, inspired by his teacher Kaare Klint and American Shaker Furniture, and the 3237 chair both feature in Borge Mogensen’s own home images. Vintage finds are currently on their way to us as we print!

The Safari chair  was designed by Kaare Klint in 1933 for Rud Rasmussen.

Kaare Klint wanted to produce af light, portable armchair and was inspired by the English officers chair he had seen in a travel guide from Africa. The purpose of using the chair in the field was maintained as the chair is easy to disassemble – and assemble – with no tools. The chair – maybe the world’s first “D-I-Y furniture” – can be rolled in carton and dispatched worldwide as I have recently done for my Sorrento beach house.

The craftsmanship is what grabs me. Just look at all those beautifully turned Ash timber legs, natural canvas or oxhide covers and thick leather strapping. So simple and so cool!

Last night saw the grand opening of the new Corporate Culture showroom in Melbourne. Retaining the heritage of the original building, a stunningly simple charcoal steel staircase connects each floor level. With the door prize being a swan chair it seemed appropriate that a black swan ballerina commanded everyone’s attention. The building is heaven, I’m ready to move!

We are obsessed with beautifully refined chairs, particularly when they are so technically clever!

The Invisible chair forms part of ‘The Invisibles’ collection for Kartell and is a collaboration between the Italian furniture manufacturer and Tokujin Yoshioka. The project discussion began more than two years ago, when both were looking for a possibility to develop a new product line, made in acrylic, which inherited the essence of Tokujin’s previous optical glass bench Waterfall.

The Invisibles collection’s transparent thickness eradicates the presence of the objects.

The Wire Chair by Japanese designer Nendo is the follow-up to the Cord Chair For Wire Chair’, Nendo has stripped away the wooden skin and has increased the diameter of the steel rods from 9 mm to 12 mm, thus giving the chair structural support independent from the wood. The chair is power coated in multiple layers and hand polished to give it a lustrous finish, reminiscent of traditional Japanese lacquer ware. The new finish also results in more durability and water resistance, making the chair suitable for indoor and outdoor use.

The Cord Chair is a result of a collaboration between Nendo and Marun.
Made from hard maple and steel, the aim was to show off the flawlessness of the wood material, instead of exposing the chair’s underlying metal frame. To achieve this they decided to hollow out each piece of wood to clad the steel structure.
Nendo’s design is derived from their exploration of the relationship between materials like metal wiring within an electrical cord and the rubber that encases it. Each of the chair’s parts are carved from wood and left in its most natural state. The ‘lightness’ of the chair is expressed through its thin structure and the chair can only be constructed by hand.