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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

You look so familiar: Part 3 - Stacking

Ah, the ubiquitous stacking chair. It seems that almost everyone has dabbled a bit in this design over the years, and the wheel is still being reinvented, so to speak, as evidenced by Knoll's 1999 Cirene by Vico Magistretti, the 2000 Gigi by Marco Maran and  2004 chair by Ross Lovegrove. 

A quick Google of "stacking chairs" will show just how many designers and manufacturers have come out with their versions, yet very few, if any, significant changes or improvements have been made over the last 6 1/2 decades. Enough already!


The Stacking Chair

Charles and Ray Eames - 1948
treadwaygallery.com

Ray Komai - 1949
1stdibs.com

Georg Leowald - 1955
architonic.com

Arne Jacobsen Chair 3107 - 1955
designmuseum.org

Robin Day for Hille - 1963
telegraph.co.uk

Cirene chair by Vico Magistretti - 1999
knoll.com

Gigi chair by Marco Maran - 2000
vastudc.com

Ross Lovegrove for Knoll - 2004
knoll.com

4 comments:

  1. They are so nice I would never stack the wood chairs for fear I would scratch them.

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  2. Stacking chairs - never thought of them being a design as much as a convenience. I remember stacks of plastic chairs in our school rooms - a happy image for sure.

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  3. @John Bachman: I agree. I really like the Komai chairs, and I'd handle them with kid gloves.

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  4. @DearHelenHartman: Who knew when we were kids that we were sitting on good design in the school cafeteria?

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