It would have been a surprise if there wasn´t a white plastic chair in Saddam´s hide-out where he was finally captured a few months ago. Matthew at memefirst tracked it down.

While here in Europe you would leave your plastic chairs outside all night and day wherever, not being afraid they might be gone in the morning, the situation in Ghana appears somewhat different. Two men are charged with stealing plastic chairs from a funeral. Not the funniest story to post, admittedly, but still it sheds some light on what the item is worth in different societies…

We have observed the first monobloc and the first mass-produced fiberglass chair but had not arrived at injection molded chairs yet. At this point of the plastic chairs 60 or so years long history enters Robin Day´s (*1915) Polyprop Chair…

Ever thought, what you would do if you owned a million? O.K. – it´s only a million Japanese Yen, that´s just about 9,000 US$ – but anyway? …

Conventional wisdom holds that these designs by Charles & Ray Eames from the late 1940ies are the very first examples of plastic chairs. We dare to disagree …

This Tuesday afternoon I sat in my kitchen, giving an interview for an art magazine, talking about the plastic chair and why it is better we come to terms with it. Naturally one question came up: When exactly did the first monobloc appear? I had no precise answer to that, only the usual muttering about Eames, Saarinen, Day, the Bofinger chairs etc. …

There are only very few articles about the white monobloc plastic chair around in the internet and elsewhere. I really enjoyed reading Mariana Gosnell´s piece “Everybody take a seat” that was published only recently in the July2004 issue of the Smithsonian Magazine.
Mrs Gosnell anecdotically explores some of the economic background of the white plastic chair when she writes …

About five months have passed since the white plastic chair became the crucial topic of an unusual argument: Has the US-administration helped killing Nicholas Berg?

As a reminder: …