May is traditionally the month in which the furniture design industry starts winding down towards summer.... fortunately, because after Milan all are flat broke. We took the opportunity to speak to Annemoon Geurts from Kazerne Eindhoven,view the Floris Wubben showcase Low Tech Crafts at DAD Galerie Berlin and wish English designer Robin Day a Happy 100th! The Poly side chair by Robin Day for Hille (bottom right), here with its contemporaries from Charles & Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen in the
read more
One of the biggest disappointments of Milan Furniture Fair 2015 was that all manufacturers, or at least all the ones we visited, seem almost pathologically intent on maintaining the convention of a chair as a legged and/or cantilevered object which supports the human frame in an elevated position circa 40 - 45 cms above the floor and with the lower leg extended away from the body. Yet changing technology is resulting in a need for new chair typologies, for chairs which offer alternative
read more
