“10 Chaises” by Dominique Erhard is a small pop-up book originally made for kids highlighting 10 iconic chairs from the past century. Originally released in 2016 and re-published in 2022.
The Inception Chair is a unique piece of furniture designed by Vivian Chiu, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. It was created as part of a short experimental project and constructed in just four weeks. The chair consists of ten individual chair frames made from ash wood, ranging from standard adult size to a humorously small size. Each frame has hand-cut grooves on the inside edges of the seat frame and pegs in the back, allowing them to fit into the groove of the frame one size bigger. This design enables the chair frames to be taken apart and reassembled, functioning as a single chair when pieced together. Apart from its functional aspect, when disassembled, it can also be viewed as a piece of sculpture. The name “Inception Chair” was chosen over “Matryoshka Chair” to reflect the concept of a chair within a chair, reminiscent of the nested Russian dolls. The name also draws a parallel to the movie “Inception,” where things are not always as they seem at first glance.
«Guido» ~ Chair during ice debacle, Paris, 1950. Vintage silver print | src Senigallia
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«Guido» ~ Chaise pendant la débâcle de la glace, Paris, 1950. Tirage argentique d’époque | src Senigallia
We’d like to think it’s a tribute by a mysterious «Guido» to the master Kertész, even if in 1950 his photographs weren’t yet famous… Kertész arrived in Paris in 1925 and photographed the chairs at the…