Chair Avatars
This is a display area for my spare chairs - my various Twitter avatars.

Why Chairs?
Chairs symbolize social interaction. They invite you to sit down and stay a while; take a load off. You're probably sitting right now. We sit down to digest news. We sit to think. We sit to be social. You might say chairs are the first social media. Okay, you wouldn't but let's pretend.

Some beautiful chairs are painful to sit on (talkin' to you Frank Lloyd Wright, and owners of Indian restaurants everywhere). Many comfy chairs can look quite ugly. Chairs can fit with all situations - from thrones to bean-bags. Lawn chairs say "relax, enjoy the weather." Kitchen chairs say "have a bite." Dentists' chairs say "sit down and scream a while."

As an early user of Twitter in '07, I began to explore a dynamic avatar idea – it was always easy to identify my feed based on the avatar's subject matter, but the actual image changed often. If you followed me and my meanderings, I hope you found the conversation fun and/or thoughtful. Pull up a chair.

The avatar history is captured below...

Nov 28, 2011

Robo Chair from Luca Nichetto comes packed in a small box. The Venice-born designer was recently judged 'Young Designer of The Year' says this blog.  A great reason to visit that link is the view of the un-assembled parts of the chair.  You'll probably have to go to the Swedish showroom to pick one up.  No, wait. You could probably pop around to the designer's studio at Porto Marghera, Italy. 
Oh, save yourself the travel bill and just visit the designer's website. Some great eye-candy there. I quite like the simple chair designs there.