Fab.com is a new flash site, ala Gilt.com, it will feature daily design inspirations for everyone, with an eye toward helping members incorporate aesthetic appreciation into their daily lives.
The site launches in 5 weeks, invitation only, sign up here: Fab.com
1961 Playboy photo featuring left to right - George Nelson, Edward Wormley, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Eames and Jens Risom
Unfettered by dogma, the creators of contemporary American furniture have a flair for combining functionalism with aesthetic enjoyment.
Exuberance, finesse, and high imagination characterize U.S. furniture design today. For the crusading era of modern is over. In the early years of Twentieth Century design, a chair – to its creator, at least – was very much more than something pleasant to look at. An early modern chair was a resoundingly significant expression of the age, a concrete rendition of abstract structural principles, an almost belligerent assemblage of mechanical parts in which every bolt was paraded with all the bravado of Erich von Stroheim’s monocle. Early modern thrived on dogma “Form Follows Function!” “Less is More!” “Structure is Beauty!” that rivaled Milton in Puritan passion; it paid deepest obeisance to the machine and let the softer human sensibilities accommodate themselves as best they could; and it dwelt, along with pre-Bach and post-Bartok, strictly among the intelligentsia.
I have 2 sets of these chairs and I decided to part with one. I got them both reupholstered after waiting for someone to sell this fabric on ebay for a long time. It retails for $125 a yard!
Ebay listing.
I just picked up a set of 6 of these beautiful vintage Herman Miller fiberglass chairs from the Green Ant. They are the super-rare popsicle green color. The only problem is they’ve got the wide mount base. We’re trying to talk our friend Tom into manufacturing eiffel tower bases, like he promised. The Green Ant has more from his secret stash.
