The KOOP Chair by Karim Rashid for Martela
Karim Rashid has designed the KOOP chair for the Finnish furniture manufacturer Martela.
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Description from Karim Rashid:
I wanted the Koop chair to create an organic womb-like space. The soft shaped structure produced creates cradles you in a sense of serenity, privacy and peace. The pure egg-likechair presents purity, perfection, minimalism, and holism.
Visit the Martela website – here.
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shane on 09 Nov 2010 at 9:18 am #
really? I suppose most furniture is simply re-working an existing idea but is this necessary? Can’t blame a manufacturer for cashing in on a designers ability to get people looking
Karim Raspberry on 09 Nov 2010 at 2:55 pm #
the color is…. too much…
too much like womb!!
DS on 09 Nov 2010 at 9:47 pm #
The world we live in – that of rapidly diminishing resources- has coincided with a peak in global consumerism. This peak has in turn spawned countless designers of varying merit to produce countless items which we really do not need in any way to survive. Whilst I understand that this, for the time being, is what makes the world go round, a figure such as Karim Rashid simply perplexes me.
Will anyone really count this as a great piece of design 30 years from now (or pretty much anything else he has done)? I would pose not really, but man, the amount of material and resourses that get funnelled into the production of products such as this as well as a raft of other ‘star’ designers is beginning to bug me.
Jat on 10 Nov 2010 at 7:31 am #
meh. Have we not seen this design before in slight variations starting with a half sphere and also the 3/4 ovoid (egg)?
AR on 13 Nov 2010 at 12:34 am #
Oh wow, that’s one ugly chair. Couldn’t agree more with DS either. And Jat of course comes with a very valid point too. It’s Finnish, btw, not Finish.
Lucky Elbel on 17 Nov 2010 at 12:05 pm #
While I can appreciate what he has accomplished for himself, I just cannot see what the draw to his work is. This chair is just another lame knock off of what is and always has been, an uncomfortable waste of space.