777 Las Vegas Chairs Book of Unsung Heroes
777 Las Vegas Chairs was on Kickstarter (as seen above). Thank you for all of your support!
We appreciate your enthusiasm and will continue to make this happen. Las Vegas here we come!
We appreciate your enthusiasm and will continue to make this happen. Las Vegas here we come!
There are many books about design and many about Las Vegas but none on Design in Las Vegas. This book is an important start. With designer Bas van Beek, I will be heading to Las Vegas to document 777 chairs to add them to the canon of chair design. The result will be a book entitled 777 Las Vegas Chairs.
With the recent wave of design that has converted its hotels and casinos into fodder fit for the pages of Architectural Digest, Las Vegas furniture should not be neglected but documented. Chairs designed for the entertainment sector have been over looked as serious designs although chairs found in Las Vegas casinos, resorts and hotels have as much stringent and imaginative requirements as those chairs found in design museum collections.
The chairs will be photographed in front of a white backdrop to neutralize the Las Vegas context, similar to the photos in the 1000 chairs book that already exists. We also want to see if they can stand on their own as beautiful chairs or have a very particular "raison d’etre". We would like to find as many as possible, from the chairs of the wedding chapel where Elvis married, the buffet chairs found in the all-you-can-eat restaurants, to resting chairs found in the elegant foyers of casinos such as the Bellagio and the Paris Hotel Casino. From the cheap to luxurious, from the old to very new, we will document until we drop!
Whenever possible, we will also find out the chair’s history and production background by interviewing the designers and producers responsible and often overlooked. We will also be interested in defining what are the differences between a regular chair for the home and those designed for a quick fix image of luxury. What are the aesthetics of luxury in this context where you are always to be treated like a somebody? What are the design requirements of a chair that must project luxury but is for the masses, that must stand up to severe use but look as though it is a one of a kind chair?
We hope to show that chairs designed for this type of place should be considered seriously as designed objects, that reflect a particular vernacular of leisure and experience design but also should stand in any inventory of great chair design. When documented in one book, these chairs of Las Vegas can serve as a fascinating archive and manual for chair lovers everywhere.
With the recent wave of design that has converted its hotels and casinos into fodder fit for the pages of Architectural Digest, Las Vegas furniture should not be neglected but documented. Chairs designed for the entertainment sector have been over looked as serious designs although chairs found in Las Vegas casinos, resorts and hotels have as much stringent and imaginative requirements as those chairs found in design museum collections.
The chairs will be photographed in front of a white backdrop to neutralize the Las Vegas context, similar to the photos in the 1000 chairs book that already exists. We also want to see if they can stand on their own as beautiful chairs or have a very particular "raison d’etre". We would like to find as many as possible, from the chairs of the wedding chapel where Elvis married, the buffet chairs found in the all-you-can-eat restaurants, to resting chairs found in the elegant foyers of casinos such as the Bellagio and the Paris Hotel Casino. From the cheap to luxurious, from the old to very new, we will document until we drop!
Whenever possible, we will also find out the chair’s history and production background by interviewing the designers and producers responsible and often overlooked. We will also be interested in defining what are the differences between a regular chair for the home and those designed for a quick fix image of luxury. What are the aesthetics of luxury in this context where you are always to be treated like a somebody? What are the design requirements of a chair that must project luxury but is for the masses, that must stand up to severe use but look as though it is a one of a kind chair?
We hope to show that chairs designed for this type of place should be considered seriously as designed objects, that reflect a particular vernacular of leisure and experience design but also should stand in any inventory of great chair design. When documented in one book, these chairs of Las Vegas can serve as a fascinating archive and manual for chair lovers everywhere.