Live from Milan: Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn of Design Drift present their Ghost Chair collection on the second floor of the NHow hotel in Zona Tortona.
The plexiglass chairs have ghost-like forms inside them, created with laser technology.
More info:
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GHOST CHAIR
Design by Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn for DRIFT, 2007/2008
Material: plexiglas (PMMA) of 50 mm thickness.
Size: 36 x 48 x 84 cm
Weight: 25 kg
The ghost is a futuristic concept of a chair, 3-dimensionally captured within the boundaries of reality. It gives you a bit of a dramatic feeling: unbelievable, high-tech, but beautiful.
The material shape is kept very uniform to remain a big contrast with the organic shapes inside. We sketched a futuristic concept of a chair that can not exist yet. By doing this we deliberate our design from the trend of stereotypical baroque forms.
Nowadays anything is possible with 3D computerprograms -you can even draw the impossible - so why fall back on the awkward design language of your grandma’s furniture? With the Ghost Chair we want to make clear that it is time to free ourselves of old styles and trends
and to start designing our own future.
It is a very new and exclusive product using the latest production techniques. The chairs are handmade with the best materials and specialists from Europe, therefore they will be very suitable for high end purposes. We can make every chair unique on the inside! There are also possibilities to customize the design of the inside ghost in consultation with the designers.
This year at the Salone del Mobile Milan 2008, we intend to kick off our ‘ghost collection’. The collection will excist of eight different (table)chairs, two different armchairs and a stools.
The collection will be presented in Nhow-hotel at via Tortona 35,from 16th untill 21st of april 2008.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
April 20th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Nice!!! The ideal chair for halloween!
April 21st, 2008 at 1:42 am
Hopefully the art and design markets will collapse soon. We need a correction on the mediocre work been put out there…too much too crappy too late?
April 21st, 2008 at 2:16 am
It looks surreally fantastic and insanely uncomfortable.
April 21st, 2008 at 2:18 am
Does it only really work when its directly lit? How does it look in an everday setting?
April 21st, 2008 at 2:19 am
I’m sorry I can’t organise my thoughts into a single post.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:04 am
gorgeous! if only the white specs glowed in the dark itself
April 21st, 2008 at 10:58 am
Co signed Rebecca^
Who you gonna call….
April 21st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I quite liked it til they said
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it is time to free ourselves of old styles and trends
and to start designing our own future. ‘
Come on guys… it’s got four legs, a back and a bum-seat.
It’s a good ol’ chair.
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 am
Starck did an elegant ghost chair. sorry that i mentioned
April 24th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Remembers Me the work of this artist.
http://www.myspace.com/glauciamayer
August 20th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
What a great concept!