Ian Stell

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Ian Stell (born 1967, New York City) is an American designer, based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. [1] He has a bachelors in sculpture from the Art Institute of Chicago (1992) and a masters in design from the Rhode Island School of Design (2012). [2] [3]

Stell began his career designing New York City "secret bars" and restaurants, such as Orchard, Double Happiness, and Wyanoka. [4]

His designs for kinetic chairs, expandable tables, lighting, accessories, and sculpture in scales ranging from miniature to monumental. [5] The objects,which he builds can be reconfigured into other shapes and require a high level of manufacturing precision. [2]

His kinetic objects have been exhibited at Matter, New York's Design Week, Triode in Paris, and Salone del Mobile in Milan. [6] He built intersecting staircases that were installed on the banks of the Spree River in Berlin (2015). [7] This staircase Diagint was fabricated by a factory that provides prototyping for Italian automotive companies. [2]

He has also built the Austrian Loop Chair using a process that interweaves beading, basket-weaving, and bridge-building techniques on a miniature scale. [3] [8] Unlike the Loop Armchair that Willy Guhl designed for Eternit SA (1950S), Stell's Loop Chair is not shaped as a loop nor is the seat made of one contiguous plane of material. Stell's Austrian Loop Chair is composed of more than 800 pieces and opens like an accordion. [9] He exhibited Roll Bottom in 2016 at Chamber Gallery in New York City; the device is a steel and leather sculpture that opens up, through a roller coaster system of rollers on a track, into a writing desk with a lamp and chair. [10] [11] Roll Bottom has a cover on the desk that literally rolls down and around the chair frame to become the leather seat. [11] He has also designed shape shifting wall mirrors that expand and rotate into different forms. [9]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Ian Stell Online Shop | Shop Design at Pamono". pamono.com. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  3. 1 2 Designophy. "Ian Stell's exquisite kinetic furniture is something to behold". Designophy. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  4. ↑ Chaplin, Julia (2000-05-07). "Buzz Off: Secret Bars That Spurn Hype (Published 2000)". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  5. ↑ "In the Details: Ian Stell's Pantograph-Inspired Pivoting Tables". Core77. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  6. ↑ "ian stell forms flexible furniture that expands + contracts for countless configurations". designboom | architecture & design magazine. 2016-05-08. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  7. ↑ "ian stell berlin river - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  8. ↑ "American Design Hot List 2014: Ian Stell". Sight Unseen. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  9. 1 2 Dermentzi, Maria. "This shapeshifting furniture puts a new spin on interior design". Mashable. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
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