Designer Karen Ryan has sent us images of Another Chair, a new project that adapts unwanted chairs into new combinations.
The chairs form part of Ryan’s Boarded Up collection, which was shown at Designersblock in London last month.
Here are more projects by Karen Ryan on Dezeen:
Wood Work
Untitled Lights
Unmade 07
The following is from Karen Ryan:
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‘Another Chair’
Part of the Boarded Up Collection.
I cannot help myself I just wanted to make another chair. A chair that was beautifully hand crafted and designed entirely by me.
A chair that showcased my love of structures made out of raw wood. But my conscience won over me as I stared at a further three discarded chairs that were now stacked in my studio.
At that moment my brief to myself was set, I would make my chair but it would be supported by the cultural histories of other chairs, transparent of its found state and bearing clear testament to its new construction.
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Posted by Rob Ong
October 8th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
What is happening to this website??Lately, everything SUCKS!!!!!
October 8th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
you included.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
i can see why some people dont like alot of designs and i have an open mind most of the time but i dont know whats going on with this, very poor
October 8th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Is this not just like Martino Gamper’s ‘100 chairs’, but not nearly as successful or appealing?
October 8th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
she’s having a giraffe !!
October 8th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
terrible…… is design or a joke
October 8th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
I think Karen should sit on the chair for an hour and then possibly rethink her design. Or – I think I didn’t understand that this was meant to be a deconstructive statement? Well in that case i must say it isn’t a particularly good one.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I’ll put a rock in my room and will tell that it is a chair
:D
Am I a designer?? Or not?
October 8th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
hmmm…???
October 8th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Wow, i am speechless… I think merely looking at this submission has robbed of any and all intellectual thinking ability
October 8th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Same for me – not impressed at all. Looks like lately everyone is trying to do something to fit into -Art-.
Good luck for the next one.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
4 or 5 pictures from the same chair is a little bit too much information about something like this.. i am sorry to say but what is the point? don’t wanna be a hater, but i want an answer
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October 8th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
no comprendo cómo se puede publicar esto… La verdad. No podemos permitir que el diseño torne hacia una imagen ni tan siquiera similar a esta… Bastante irrisorio.
Saludos…
October 9th, 2008 at 12:59 am
great concept… but really just not cutting it for me… sorry!!
i can sort of understand why ms ryan is not posting on here in her defense… but i have never seen any artists in here explaining or defending their work… why not??
October 9th, 2008 at 1:10 am
where can i order one of each to go along w/ my furniture made from glued together scrap wood?
October 9th, 2008 at 2:38 am
turn some unwanted chairs to another unwanted chair… um…
October 9th, 2008 at 4:05 am
design is dying
October 9th, 2008 at 5:27 am
beautiful
October 9th, 2008 at 5:29 am
I kike it~~
October 9th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Frankestein chair
(im sorry Frankestein)
October 9th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Oh! finally some good industrial design….. when’s
it going into production?
October 9th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
FRESH
October 9th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
definitely fresh and you can never argue with trying to recycle old stuff, its what we should all be thinking about
October 9th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Recycle my third finger
October 9th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
WOW. Deep breath everyone, now exhale… Better? Taking ourselves a little less seriously? Good.
I think these have a great sense of humor and unusually novel approach to furniture design. I give mucho cudos.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
14 images?! You’re kidding right?
October 9th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I can’t believe it..is it a …chair?
October 9th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
WTF
October 10th, 2008 at 12:53 am
meh… I just dont get it
October 10th, 2008 at 2:57 am
another proof that recycling and ecology is just TOO hot these days, it justifies anything… YES, recycling is a GOOD thing, but don’t use it as a shelter for any stupid design, we’ve seen so much better than this…
October 10th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Come on it is quite obvious this is not for mass production so I can not figure out why some of you are wasting your breath to talk about this in an “industrial designed furniture” context. For example look what Jamie Hayon and Studio Job are doing … not much different. Some times design can be about the dialogue that happens because of it. Think about runway fashion. Not many of Alexander Mc Queen’s pieces are wearable, but in the end the little fashions that happen within his pieces are passed down through the fashion design world. At some point you end up seeing those things in a place like Urban Outfitters .. ect..
You either like things like this and Droog and Hayon and Studio Job or you hate it. Just like someone likes or hates Nike’s new shoe design or Herman Millers new office cubical designs. There is two types of conversations going on in design, and I think they both matter.
“# emil Says:
October 8th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I’ll put a rock in my room and will tell that it is a chair
:D
Am I a designer?? Or not?”
It’s already been done … sorry Emil……..
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/
October 10th, 2008 at 3:34 am
P.S. ….. Look at Ettore Sottsass. May not be the most beautiful stuff but it is progressive and innovative. Makes people think differently about the objects they live with. These things are important in design and to the history of design.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
What a waste of some nice old chairs. I would rather have seen the originals restored or updated. To me this just reeks of ‘trying too hard to be different’. I went to art school- I get the whole idea of looking at something in a different way but to be honest im just bored of it now. Id rather look at a simple, well made honest product.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
This is what happen when you don’t wish to get rid of junks and make something good out of it. It is creative but….just too flaky!!
October 12th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Yet another proof of the poor quality of current british design…
Please don’t arrange London Design Festival again.
Ever.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:59 am
It takes design like this to encourage other designers to get their heads out of their asses and consider if another chair is really the answer. Well done on drawing attention to the obvious, keep it up.
November 12th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Using found objects as a ready-made or incorporating one in designs isn’t new. This modus operandi definitely has its own esthetics and has known a surge in the last years. Everybody’s doing it. But it has apparently just become auto-referential and is now to set go back in the shadows, never to die in the hart of hardcore aficionados. Its heydays are in its past but may one day come back. that said, if its art, don’t sit on it, if you do, if becomes applied art, witch is also called design, unless you were supposed to sit on it in the first placed, then I can’t help you.