ODEChair by Jolyon Yates
ODEChair is a new collection of contemporary organic chairs, crafted in Northumberland, England, by Jolyon Yates.
Born in Durham, England in 1968, Jolyon studied Industrial Design at Sheffield Hallam University and then Automotive Styling at the Royal College of Art, London.
After a spell at Opel in Frankfurt, working on the development team of the World’s first wholly ‘virtual’ car design, Jolyon was invited to Style Porsche in Stuttgart. In this capacity he worked on major internal and external projects. In a freelance role, Jolyon went on to work with Stefan Stark, Seymour Powell and The Product Group.
Returning to New Zealand in 1998, Jolyon taught Design at Massey University in Wellington before taking up a role at Bakewell-White Yacht Design in 2000
ODE is a new venture, launched in 2008 involving the design and making of unique and distinctive one-off and low volume furniture.
Visit the ODE website – here.
Karcy on 06 Aug 2008 at 2:24 am #
I love the shapes. So curvy.
How do they make wood do that?
British Beds on 06 Aug 2008 at 3:51 am #
Lovely designs. But what kind of wood is that. The one in that second last picture, won’t it break if made out of wood. There must be some else done to them to stand the weight.
bald skull on 07 Aug 2008 at 12:10 am #
lovely designs. reminds me of ron arad
Mayamox on 07 Aug 2008 at 1:17 am #
Amazing design!
christopher on 07 Aug 2008 at 8:21 am #
Wonderful piece of sculptural furniture – I love it (It’s sad when seeing someone sitting in it isn’t as nice as just looking at it by itself). Definitely reminds me of Arad. It seems to be plywood, my guess is he roughed together successive ‘silhouettes’ of plywood and then carved it down.
Annecy Gee on 07 Aug 2008 at 12:00 pm #
I love it all.
Can you feel the craftsmanship? I know I can!
Rosa Bassani on 13 Nov 2008 at 9:38 am #
Just a question:
Where to find these wonderful chairs to buy in Canada (Toronto)?
Thank you!
Dave on 13 Nov 2008 at 5:36 pm #
Contact Jolyon Yates – http://www.odechair.com