Milan 08: Marcel Wanders launched his new Chubby armchair for Italian company Slide in Milan last month.
The armchair, similar in form to Wanders’ Crochet chair, is made from polyethylene and is available in green, black, white, red or orange.
A matching foot stool called Chubby Low is also available.
Here are some details from Marcel Wanders:
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Chubby – armchair
Design: Marcel Wanders, 2007
Material: Polyethylene (PE)
Color: green, black, white, red, orange
Size: 130 X 120 h x 56 cm
Photography: Marcel Wanders studio
Produced and distributed by Slide
Fore sales information contact Slide
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Posted by Rose Etherington
May 20th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Some contemplative shots of the plastic chair by the seaside, staring out to sea, considering its future, ruminating on the Big Questions - what is it all about? Why am I here? What makes me different from any of the other plastic chairs out there? Where will i go when I die?
All good questions.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
So many pictures for such a simple chair.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
An appropriate response, Fling. Cheers.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I guess they would float. That would be cool. One could surf siting down. In comfort. Mold in holes for a beer can or bottle of Corona…yeah, these could be hot sellers in the islands.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I really dont understand why it is so bloody difficult to see a single photo that someone actually sat on any of these “concept chair”
May 20th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
that split line is so cruel!
May 20th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
tommi - the dog, the dog compensates all!
May 20th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Well, guys, probably the answer lies on the meaning of the word ‘desing’…
I love the pictures.
I like the concept.
I enjoy the feeling the beatiful pure shape gives to my imagination.
I would buy the chair.
I would not use to sit, but eventually I could end up sitting some times.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
You have to love it when a chair can actually upset someone to the point where they need to curse.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
this chair brought a smile to my face.
i like the split line, i think i prefer it to hiding it away.
the photo’s are great
May 21st, 2008 at 12:20 am
Personally i rather see a plastic chair than one made of hard wood wich have been cut from primary forests. About the ecologycal comments, the pc where you were writting, is more dangerous for the enviroment than that chair. So, plastic is not always bad.
A chair can last as much as 50 or 60 years, the real problem with plastics in the world is the little period of time that they are in use (sometimes even minutes).
As a design, i think it is interesting, but not fabulous.
(i apologies because of my grammar, but english is not my maternal language)
May 21st, 2008 at 12:30 am
Wanders is an amazing designer, but like most stuff from Moooi (in this case, this is not Moooi):
Marketing > Design
That’s the reason of so many photos for such a “regular” chair.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:33 am
Proportions are great; love the Lambo Miura colours
Another Wanders classic
May 21st, 2008 at 9:16 am
Dude,……………………….Where’s my chair?
May 21st, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I’m soooo tied of Marcel Wanders. All these guys reach a point where anything they do people fantasize about. Really boring, done before, colors are horrible, not environmentally friendly, price must be insane… so what’s the point?
May 21st, 2008 at 7:10 pm
This is a 1 minute project, cashing in on the left over data from the Crochet chair. Expect to see hundreds of cheap copies in crappy furniture/homeware places around the world….that are actually just as good as the real thing. Very weak.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 am
I met the owner of this company in Milan, i asked him would he be interested in seeing some of my design propositions and he said bluntly ” I only want famous designers. Marcel Wanders has done this collection for me.” I said “Its not very attractive or original” He said ” I don”t care, as long as a get some press”. Sadly this mentality is the reality of design editors today, it not what it is, its who you are.
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
A lot of star designers did one minute projects…eg Starck, Wanders aso
but some are great …
Frankie , you need to be first an emerging star …you need to invent a way of be known first…
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
to be an emerging design star with a radiator? I thought some years ago, it was impossible…. Laarman did it , follow ART man….
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Frankie, I sympathise.. but to add to Zuys comments, every designer starts from zero- analyse your selling point… its a shallow industry…what makes you (work/personality) stand out and make journos/editors take notice?
May 24th, 2008 at 6:03 am
yes Will, any designer has a different personnality and a know how…
For example Starck could’nt design pattern…and some designers as some dutch designers design mostly pattern…
There is also different design markets ….
May 24th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
frankie read that story
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=3236
May 25th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Wanders is capable of doing great design (knotted chair) and this sort of cheap crap. Unfortunately lately he is more focused on reproducing his face with the clown nose on any possible surface and doing this kind of banal products instead of thinking. What a pity.
May 26th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Wanders is capable of doing great design … but often not alone… Knotted chair is a co-design…
For PR, photo, show ,all communication process , he is following his master in communication Philippe Starck….
May 26th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Bertjan Pot codesigned Carbon chair not Knotted chair….
May 28th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Thanks for the story Zuy V.good ^
It is an important point :
“find what makes you different and stay true to it”
I’ll bear this mind for the future.
May 30th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
the Metrolitan article in the eighties was terrrrrrrrrrible about the starck design system…….
May 30th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
bad memories ….it’s 1998 read starck realities
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_1098/oc98str.htm
May 30th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Frankie do you have a site or your design in design blogs?
October 24th, 2008 at 10:02 am
wow!!!…..
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:07 am
Fabio:
Design isn’t just about aesthetics. Function is equally important - and ergonomics is one huge chunk of furniture design. I am sure Marcel Wanders, being a competent designer, would not ignore this factor, nor should we. Sit in one of your good looking chairs more - you’ll learn to appreciate it more!