Chair Chick

What's Up, Buttercup?

Just when you think you have Kenneth Cobonpue figured out, he goes and does something completely different. The designer's Bloom Collection includes this lounge chair, which is made of microfibre stretched over resin on a steel base. The flower-like profile is "sculpted" by hundreds of running stitches radiating from the center of the seat. The line also includes a club chair. Both the club and lounge chairs are available in Moss Green, Light Green, Yellow (shown) and Red. See the club chair on DesignCommotion.

Filed under // Bloom Lounge Chair Design Commotion Kenneth Cobonpue

Posted January 5, 2010

Let Your Hair Down

Kenneth Cobonpue wants you to tap into your inner child with the fun, funky and fresh Harry Rocking Stool. The fabric strips are stitched on interchangeable covers over a steel base. Colors include yellow, light green, moss green, brown, red and black. The stool, quite literally, rocks! Find a list of distributors on Cobonpue's web site.

Other designs sporting disheveled dignity are the Baby Hairy Bertoia, which has over 2,500 strands of closed-cell extruded sponge cord hand-knotted to a freshly powdercoated, vintage pint-sized Harry Bertoia chair. There's also Charles Kaisin's Hairy Chair, which is a bit more shaggy dog with its shredded paper finely cut to cover a repurposed chair. See a slide show of the chairs for close comparison on the Design Commotion fan page on Facebook.

Filed under // Charles Kaisin Design Commotion Harry Bertoia Harry Rocking Stool Kenneth Cobonpue

Posted August 6, 2009

Saxon Henry

Saxon Henry has been a journalist for fifteen years, and has written for an array of publications, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Robb Report. In her niche as a design/architecture journalist, she is a former contributing editor to Interiors Magazine and MIAMI Magazine, and a former regular contributor to Luxe, Modernism and Manhattan. As a design-related travel writer, she is a former regular contributor to Delta Sky, Latitudes, Cayman Airways and Aishti. Henry’s book Four Florida Moderns was published by W.W. Norton & Company in early 2010. She publishes a number of blogs, including Roaming By Design and The Road To Promise, and her new Social Media consultancy firm, Adroyt, founded with Richard Holschuh, is now in full swing. After years of writing for a variety of publications, Henry considers capturing a client's most authentic and marketable voice a skill she has honed with great effort, making the process of identifying that voice seem effortless, though nothing could be further from the truth!

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