One Giant Step for Chair-kind
Dario Antonioni's newest invention will set you back an orbit or two. The Carbon22 chair, made from 100% carbon fiber, sells for $22,000 (now that's a lot of g's!). “It's not just furniture, says Antonioni, a trained aerospace engineer turned product designer. "It's art." The Carbon22 collecIon uIlizes advanced technologies to sculpt pieces that read blacker-than-black (like the stool, above, that reads a bit like a space-aged saddle). Besides the stool, there's a signature chair, a desk, an end table and a cocktail table--all in limited edition. Each piece creates a streaming, sensual flow of air in a wind tunnel, just the thing that would make an aeronautics buff beam. The founder of Orange22 deign lab's products are fancied by a long list of celebrities, including Ralph Lauren, Henri Bendel, Ian Schrager and Edward Norton. See Annotioni's Botanist Blank Canvas tables, which some of the world's biggest design stars have made their mark on, on DesignCommotion.
