In Their Natural Habitat
Witness the Swan chair in its natural habitat, in this case the hotel foyer at the SAS Royal Copenhagen. The chairs are arranged around low tables in small pods of five or six, between the front door and the check-in and concierge desk.
From the bar at the side of the foyer you can sit and watch the bizarre dance of the hotel staff constantly realigning the chairs so they look picture-perfect.
As people move through the space they'd stop, sit in the chairs and then get up and move on, leaving their chair slightly out of the previously perfect visual arrangement around the table. So the concierge would scuttle out from the desk and do a lap of the room fixing the chairs so they all looked just right.
Then someone else would waltz through, sit, leave a chair slightly out of place, and the dance begins again.
Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 and filed under Chairs, Europe 2006-2007.
Comments
Awesome. Ultra cool.
So in the world of chair designs where do bean bags rank?
Posted by: rosemary on March 1, 2007
Bean bags? Uhm. They're quite functional as far as chairs go. As far as form goes, I'm not sure. I'd put them somewhere below Jacobsen and Eames on a leaderboard of designer chairs.
Maybe not ultra-cool, but definitely ultra-comfortable.
Posted by: Si on March 1, 2007
I have this red leather bean bag and it is spectacular.
Simon, I agree with how you say bean bags are very functional: I use mine when I'm playing a racing game on my Xbox. It makes me feel like I'm actually in a Ferrari! (Because I am semi-on-my-back, and because it's red).
Posted by: Jesse on March 4, 2007
