#officetour Milestones – Centripetal Spring Chair by Thomas E. Warren

While understandings of form, of beauty, in context of the objects with which we surround ourselves continually evolve and develop, understandings of function are, generally, much more stable. Or at least are once they have been identified, understood and normalised.

Something that can be studied and appreciated in Thomas E. Warren’s Centripetal Spring Chair…..

Radio smow: An Office Furniture Playlist…..

It’s probably no exaggeration to claim that musicians have at best an ambivalent, truculent, openly confrontational relationship with the office. When not writing about being in love, not being in love, wanting to be in love, wanting to not be in love, etc, they can be found pouring scorn and ridicule on those who dutifully waste their days in offices when there is all that freedom to be enjoyed.

Thus one could imagine songs about office furniture being about as rare as occasions when Caílte mac Rónáin is unable to explain how a particular hill, valley or river in Ireland came by its name.

Could.

A Radio smow playlist devoted to office furniture and our complex relationship with such……

smow blog compact: To work sitting or standing, that is, still, the question….

As we noted in a previous post, spending long periods sitting can result in shorter telomeres and thus a greater

(smow) blog compact Milan 2014 Special: Uncino by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Mattiazzi

“Modern office chairs can be like machines, very technical. We wanted to create something a little softer, more human.” So

new at smow: Vitra AC4 by Antonio Citterio

Now that it is finally online we did want to write at great lengths about the AC4 by Antonio Citterio