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In March 2007 Christian opened that little competition with a photo he took in Ushauia, at 54°49′0″S. Henning and Daniel joined the race and pushed the record up (down?) to 77°40´S although the mono status of the chairs has been debated. A reader on Henning´s website now pointed out the image above from Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station at Utsteinen – and claimed a new record at 71°57´S. Unrightfully since 71° isn´t really further south than 77° – but yet such a nice find.
The photo however has not been snapped …
Monobloc chairs around the world, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. Ocassionally exciting photos of an essentially most ordinary application: seating.
The Mono as a non-design item has become subject of a plethora of re-considering positions from the art & design world – lots of fresh views.
We need seating, stands, cover or anything – we have Mono. Non-intentional and everyday redesigns, repairs etc. by John Doe non-professional designers.
The first four images from Oman on ff, taken by Thomas Ch. Weber in Nizwa. Last one is a separate dining room for women in a local restaurant, ouch..
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It took a while but the result is worth it: Functionalfate.org got an all new design and site structure. We messed the categories up a bit and not all the old posts have been tagged yet, but basically this is it.
Kudos to René Fischer who installed the new site and helped me cleaning out/white-spacing the Arthemia WP-theme; Volker Herwig for linking me up with René in the first place, and René Eisfeld for additional graphics and critical reflections.
Image: A souvenir of the old site.
No, not really. It´s just a flyer with a mono on it, that I wouldn´t post if not 1) I like Platoon a lot and follow them since their establishment; 2) I´ll be at the opening this Saturday in Berlin and 3) I like this particular project too, and may come up with a proposal until Saturday – w/ or w/o Monoblocs.
A monobloc plastic chair, folkloresquely all covered in totora reed, that is usually used for boats on Lake Titicaca.
Found on ermelina´s Picasa.
After those bit bleak posts yesterday: Today´s fun day. The Queentstown Canyon Swing in NZ offers a mix of bungee jumping and savage swinging – 109 m high and a 60 m freefall Check their little vid of the “Chair Style” the guys offer and monkeyonagazebo´s flickr set, where I borrowed that edited image above.
Lucas has these images from Hungary or (more likely) Romania on his Picasa incl. a poignant story:
A time sequence of a manhole outside the apartment where I stayed. The first day, it had a tire. I looked inside, and it went about 15 feet down, with trash at the bottom. Good way for a 3 year old to end it all. The second day: a water bottle that had a twig stuck in it, but had fallen over. The third day: the best solution, a …
