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Mirror Chairs by Kai Linke

March 17th, 2009

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Frankfurt designer Kai Linke has created a collection of furniture by manipulating the archetypal plastic garden chair.

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Parts of the chairs have been mirrored to create symmetrical forms.

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“Due to the fact that some of the chairs are hard or nearly impossible to use as normal seating objects it allows many thoughts in between,”says Linke.

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Here’s some text from the designer:

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Mirror Chairs
By Kai Linke / 2009

“Mirror Chairs” is an edition that so far includes four different chairs. The general idea behind this session was deformation. In detail the strange new forms that occurred by using different camera effects fascinated me.

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These new objects I rebuilt with monoblock chairs which I am addicted to for years anyway. The new-formed chairs get a totally different meaning and each one of them has it’s own very special identity which sometimes even appears poetic like the two chairs that seam to embrace themselves.

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Photographer Kai Linke.

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Posted by Rose Etherington

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8 Responses to “Mirror Chairs by Kai Linke”

  1. michael Says:
    March 17th, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    woooowwww! nice!!!!!
    especially the first one – a beautiful emotional sculpture!
    (good job sawing them and reconnecting)

  2. Dajajas Says:
    March 18th, 2009 at 9:34 am

    haha NICE!! i like the 3rd one – very narrow and elegant :)

  3. chapmaniac Says:
    March 18th, 2009 at 9:40 am

    I’m getting seriously bored of people working with that plastic garden chair. It was cool 2 years ago: Front, Martin Baas etc…move on. Actually how about lets stop designing chairs all together. Aaargh I have a headache

  4. makarak Says:
    March 18th, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    I like, well done!!

  5. Prof ZUY: emotional design , sculpture? Says:
    March 20th, 2009 at 8:50 am

    In (art)design Frankfurt is now very near Eindhoven from here ….and also from a chinese or american point of view…
    Remember catching the wild….emotional design , sculpture?

    http://www.kailinke.com/web/English/Catching_the_wild/

    to chapmaniac : bored ? headache? It’s plastic’s VOC ..

  6. chinmoy Says:
    March 21st, 2009 at 6:57 am

    i like the concept of mirror chair……..

  7. martijn Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    I just love this chair. Also the the color of the top one is really well chosen!

    I want one! Martijn

  8. aljoscha Says:
    May 24th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    very impressive, I also find the first one the most appealing. lovely message!

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