Ayumi Tsuchiya

"Art is an extension of everyday life and play. Some beautiful things and heart-wrenching things, and some things that make you laugh friendly with your family. I want you to experience it here." Ayumi Tsuchiya

This Kinetic piece that reacts to you sitting in it like a flower closing is "Oyayubihime's Chair" is made by Ayumi Tsuchiya in collaboration with Karimoku Furniture. Look at the joy that good design can bring!

Valerio Vidali III

 

Valerio Vidali's Aviary chair, I can imagine this fun play chair being in a library or children's room and being an endless source of fun and adaption. 

W.W.Olior

The wide 'easy chair' by W.W.Olior

 

Tatsuya Kamino

Chair design by Japanese woodworker Tatsuya Kamino with a wonderfully plump back.

 

Jun Nii

Jun Nii's beautiful chair with bur seat

Sam Knight

Welsh woodworker Sam Knight's son is a year old and to celebrate he has made him this wonderful oak and sycamore chair, based on an old oak piece in Carmarthenshire Museum in Abergwili that was made in Alltwalis, see below.

TAKT

The Soft Chair frame designed by Danish design company 'TAKT'.  The soft chair is made of FSC- certified solid ash, a light wood with beautiful texture and pattern that adds a distinctive expression. The natural variation between dark and light wood veins, reflect seasonal changes when the tree was growing.

"Our chairs consider a more holistic environmental impact and are designed for a longer lifetime with easily replacable wearable parts. At the end of its life-cycle, the chair can be taken apart in its key materials allowing for easy, clean and effective recycling." TAKT

Sapud Kacaw

Taiwanese designer Sapud Kacaw stunning organic chairs based on the ancient principles of Pangcah wisdom, living in harmony with earth, shapes of mountain and ocean. 

Eva Korae

Eva Korae's 'Hop Hop' chair using space hoppers with a stabalising disc to anchor them.

Eva Korae I

Eva Korae has a great eye for design and reappropriation of well-known objects into her furniture designs. This adaptation of an abacus is called 'Count on Me'.

Ali Alavi

Ali Alavi is an Iranian designer based in Tehran, the Darya chair is hand carved and inspired by the Gazelle.

Marc Haldemann

Marc Halderman has explored through design ideas about what makes us keep and love a piece of furniture. In Marcs designs it is the patina of use that is designed into the pieces. Often in this consumer driven society everything needs to be new, characterless and have a visual cleanness that means that physical wear of objects means they are dismissed.
'Youth' culture is not only effecting people but also the objects we use daily.
Furniture that would have been as much a member of the family in past generations as a member of the family because it would have been too expensive and valued to be cast away.
Marc Haldemann tries through his designs to increase the emotional bond between the user and a piece of furniture.

"The project "forever yours" deals with the topic of emotional longevity in furniture design. In current design the discourse of sustainability is playing an important role. The issue of sustainability has many different facets as resource and energy efficient production as well as distribution of products and material recycling. In western world the emotional lifetime of a product is most often substantially less than its technical durability: Things are disposed of because they no longer have any emotional value although they would still work properly. The question of which design is able to contribute creating an emotional bond between user and product to encourage longevity is the main focus of the "forever yours” project. The results are three different types of seating furniture with each of them using a different strategy to improve a long lasting bond. The strategies are related to identity, individuality and interaction of products. The implementation of these strategies results in a wooden stool that uses material inherent imperfections to achieve its own individual identity, a leather stool‘s surface develops an individual appearance as time goes by and a wooden chair creates a relationship with its user by playful interaction." Marc Haldemann

Isabelle Moore I

Also selected for this years VAS exhibition are these soap finished maple chairs designed for close work at desks by Isabelle Moore . These chairs have a slight rocking action following the movement of the user.

Stéphane Leathead

Canadian designer Stéphane Leathead's 'exocet' chair a multi use piece of furniture, a chair for one or two occupants. Stéphane Leathead trained as a graphic designer the 'exocet' is the first furniture design that Stéphane has launched for his new endeavour designarium and is going to be showcased this week at IDS2015.

Werner Aisslinger

Werner Aisslinger supported by German chemical company BASF has designed a stackable monoblock chair made with natural fibers using technology from the car manufacturing industry. Hemp and kenaf (an ecological glue) are compressed with a water-based thermoset binder to form a durable, lightweight, strong and environmentally friendly piece of furniture.