Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I told my fans online how I hated my squeaky office chair. One day, a fan sent me a new chair. It was crazy! I still use the chair today. Pretty awesome.
The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.
Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.
I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.