Burwood was a quiet little village with a mere 1,200 people and only about 300 buildings. The place derived its name from a grant of 250 acres made by Governor Hunter on 3 August 1799, to Captain Thomas Rowley of the New South Wales Corps, who named the land after the Burwood Farm on which he had lived in his native Cornwell, England.
You know, people like to use the term "less is more".
I can't agree more. After learning a big lesson, the hard way, about effective communication, I realised that talking less is more beneficial to your life span in the company. Even if the company has a "open" culture. Never take that for granted.
Everyone loves beautiful things, eye candies are what some calls them. So when I first found out that my favourite furniture designs are conceived in the '60s and 70s, I was shocked.
I'm especially impressed with creative people, those with visions that transcend beyond their time and made things so simple.
Danish designer Verner Panton spent many years thinking about how to produce a plastic chair moulded in one piece. Together with Vitra, he came up with the first prototypes in the 1960s and Panton Chair went into series production as of 1967. Unlike the cheaper Panton Chair Standard in solid plastic, Panton Chair Classic is made of rigid expanded plastic and has a lacquered surface.
The Ball Chair - or Globe Chair as it's called sometimes - was designed by using one of the most simple geometric forms - the ball. Cutting of a part and fixing it at one point Eero Aarnio comes to a remarkable result in 1966 - a completely unconventional shaped chair.
Based on the idea of the Ball Chair the Bubble Chair is a reduction of this design.
'There is no nice way to make a clear pedestal' Eero Aarnio notes. That is the lucky reason why the Bubble Chair hangs from the ceiling. Like the Ball Chair the Bubble Chair also impresses the user by the special accoustic. The Bubble Chair swallows the sounds and you feel isolated inside in a pleasant way, even when you are in a crowded place.
One year after he had designed the Pastil Chair in 1968 Eero Aarnio received the American Industrial Award for this chair. The New York Times wrote about the Ball Chair and Pastil Chair at this time: "the most comfortable forms to hold up the human body".
The material - fibreglass - allows to keep the Pastil Chair outdoors throughout the year. In summer it is big fun to sit in the Pastil Chair floating on water, in winter gliding down a small hill with tremendous speed.
This will go very well while blogging with my iMac, or just in there listening to Cafe Del Mar on my iPod Nano.
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