We’ve been longtime fan of the work of Germans Ermics, he recently introduced his gorgeous Ombré Glass Chair as a tribute To Shiro Kuramata and his iconic Glass Chair (1976), one of the most influential furniture designer of the 20th century.
In his breakthrough concept: the Glass Chair set a precedent for the direction of design in glass, in which the simplicity, transparency, and seeming weightlessness of the material are emphasized. The Glass Chair exemplifies fascination with immateriality and transparency. Employing the revolutionary, new industrial product Photobond 100, which cleanly bonds glass, Kuramata was able to join six sheets of glass without screws, mounts or reinforcements thus eliminating all traces of structure. Formed solely from planes of clear glass, the chair’s solid state seems to dissolve. Almost invisible, these planes, without tangible support, hang in the air.
Photography by Jussi Puikkonen
