PURIST CHAIR BY ELISA HONKANEN

The distilled essence of the Windsor chair, in wood and neoprene, Purist Chair by Elisa Honkanen consists of four wooden bars, a plywood panel, two screws and neoprene cord. Purist was the first prize winner in the Object category at the Interieur Design Awards, Biennale Interieur 2012, in Kortrijk, Belgium. Via La Revue du Design.

Low-Tech Factory/Rocking-Knit by Damien Ludi and Colin Peillex from ECAL

"Shown in the Ruckstuhl building as part of ECAL's 'low-tech factory' exposition during designers' saturday in Langenthal, Switzerland is 'rocking knit' - a design that makes the transition to the winter season a little less onerous. students of University of Art and Design Lausanne Damien Ludi and Colin Peillex created a chair that will fashion its user a beanie as they leisurely rock back and forth, activating gears that put the machine to work as its sitter relaxes. The project is in response to the exhibition's theme, where students were required to reinterpret the idea of manufacture - deconstructing the fabrication process of a product to a slower, more considered pace. Designers' saturday showcased the work in the Ruckstuhl carpet factory, appropriately surrounding the work by spools of thread and feverish machinery, connecting concept and real-world techniques in a meaningful way."

Parrish Collection Chair by Konstantin Grcic produced by Emeco

And again Konstantin Grcic surprised us with his new chair collection. Herzog & De Meuron, architects of the new Parrish art museum, commissioned Konstantin Grcic to design the furnishings to accompany the institution which just opened its doors to the public.He used local materials from . Constructed of  a simple metal frame with wooden seat, employing local materials from local manufacturers.

'Developing the mobile interiors for the Parrish museum brings us to the peculiar psychology around chairs used in public spaces - exploring the idea of comfort and non-comfort. The best you can give someone in a public space is a chair that really feels like a chair. Considering the public self-awareness in a museum seat, the Parrish chair was given a round tube, forming a belt that defines the space around you - a space where you can feel protected. the chair is also spacious, achieved using very little material. Put together the pine on the aluminum chair looks almost like tractor seat, which has something old fashioned and genuine about it. At the final installation the Parrish chairs are strong individuals, yet the collection, I must say, looks even greater in multiplication. a density of tube forms composed in a very nice subtle way, an astonishing view in numbers,' says Grcic.

Old But Gold: The Flux Chair

Pal stool by Hallgeir Homstvedt for One Nordic

This stool by Norwegian designer Hallgeir Homstvedt is held up by three slim, curved legs inspired by skateboards (+ movie).

Wia Dezeen.

Waterfall Armchair

With a bucket seat crafted from virtually indestructible ABS, and contrasting beech wooden legs, the Waterfall armchair is a design classic colour pop.

Ukiwa Chair by Sachiko Fukutomi

Bouroullec Collection by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Hay

French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed all the furniture for the remodelled Faculty of Humanities at Københavns Universitet in Copenhagen, which is due to reopen in January.

The Thread Wrapping Machine by Anton Alvarez

Threads and glue replace joints and screws in the furniture that emerges from a custom-made machine designed by Royal College of Art graduate Anton Alvarez (+ movie).