Showing posts with label Series 7 Chair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Series 7 Chair. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Yellow & Blue Make Me So Happy!




You know how I really do rate the Series 7 chair by Arne Jacobsen, as the most iconic chair of the 20th Century?
Floral throw by Olivier Desforges

  Well here it is in my daughter's room in white against the dark navy blue walls. I have a number of these chairs used for dining and occasional chairs all over my home.
 I have dark brown stained ones from the early 1970's, white ones from the 1980's and cherry red gloss examples from this decade. 

 They are unbeatable for their comfort and practicality.  In my view the Series 7 will compliment any interior, and can be stacked for easy storage.

  I am also obsessed with yellow and the yellow ceramic piece on the bedhead is one of a pair of wonderful 
Italian 1970's pendant lights which have since been installed as hanging bedside lights.


Australian stylist Marcus Hay obviously feels the same way about the chair and the colours....yellow and blue. 
 Below are a few pics from his Manhattan apartment as featured in Elle Decoration.


Salon hang of 1950's & '60's  pieces including Italian calendar and metal fish sculpture.
The empty frame is also an interesting addition.
Interesting salon hang of found objects

Vignette with found objects and pieces of Italian Bitossi Pottery

Love the way the old doors have been used as a way of delineating a dining area by providing a back drop in a very small space

images via Elle Decoration

&
J Watson-Evans for WWID


Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Most Iconic Chair of the 20th Century





The Series 7 chair by Arne Jacobsen is my favourite chair of all time!  I have continued to use this versatile design classic in my work since the 1980's.  Not only is this chair wonderfully comfortable, (actually I am sitting on a dark brown stained vintage version from the 1970's as I write), I find that the chair works in a plethora of different interiors. With its wonderfully curved back, it has been the most copied chair in modern design history. The Series 7 is just as happy sitting along side traditional antiques as it is in a typically modernist setting.



Jefferson Apartment Main Beach

Here are the stunning red lacquered versions which we have combined with a wonderful
 painting by Australian artist Melinda Harper.
Also featured is Phillipe Starck for Kartell Gnome stool.


View to the Pacific featuring Scott Redford's Polar Bear and Campari Light by Ingo Maurer



I simply adore this wonderful moulded plywood Danish classic designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1955!

Interior Design in both pics above by Watson & Watson  2007

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