New Zealand's Definitive Design Destination

From Javi Moreno in Spain, the Nube chair. A light chair made with a thin stainless steel tube frame supporting a flexible mesh.

The Vouwwow  Chair has been awarded the Mart Stam/Thonet award for best chair design, and we can see why. Nothing quite like a robust, folding cardboard chair.

This chair seems like it was made with me in mind. The adornments suit my angelic personality. The leather upholstered chair has removable and washable plastic wings - because you know you'll want to keep them sparkling white for maximum effect. Who needs the angel a top of the Christmas tree when you can have one sitting at the dinning room table?

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Found here whilst scouring the international furniture auctions. Designed 1969-1973 and constructed in cardboard and Masonite. Estimated sale price of $2,000- $3,000 USD.

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French designer Cecile Planchais has designed the Icila Chair. Made from a single sheet of steel which is cut and folded without welds, it is inspired by the Japanese art of origami. Made from 8mm steel - the profile is thin and delicate.

The Super Foam Chair by designer Rich Gilbert considers the concept of manipulating natures structures. By developing a unique casting process the properties of the foam can be controlled so that the chair flexes and deformed to create a new structure.

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With the intention of using as little materials as possible to create a stable structure, the Faraday Chair by designers Tuen Fleskens is amazingly light, transparent and ergonomic.

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Designer Tina Roeder has revived one of the most sold, and arguably one of the ugliest chairs in the world. She sands back the surface of old used chairs that she finds and then takes to each one with a drill, adding up to 10,000 individual perforations in each chair. She manages to turn a mass produced product into a limited edition unique piece. 

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Japanese designers Nendo's new Fade Out Chair forms part of the Ghost Stories collection created for the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Constructed by hand the P38 Chair gets its name from the P38 body filler often used to repair car panels. The malleability of P38 helps to give the chair its unique curvaceous form.

Jonas Lutz, a student from the Design Academy Eindhoven has created this crafty chair for Dutch manufacturer Leolux.

We love this quirky chair by Russian designer Vladimir Tsesler. It's not particularly functional as a comfortable dining chair but its artistic value makes it worthy.

If your employees don't take you seriously - think about getting yourself a chair that not only subliminally says you're the boss, but is also called - Boss Chair. Perhaps you could leave the label on it if they still don't get it. Made in a range of fabrics or leather, it's another one of Antonio Citterio's creations.

Available locally from here.

Italian furniture manufacturers B&B Italia have collaborated with Wallpaper* to create the B&B3 exhibit at 100% Design in London. Three designers - Viktor & Rolf, Baron & Baron and Elmgreen & Dragset have reinterpreted the new Grande Papilio chair designed for B&B Italia by Naoto Fukasawa that will also have its debut during this weeks London Design Festival.

The one off chairs will eventually be donated to an HIV & AIDS charity for auction. However the new Grande Papilio chair will be available locally here soon.