Yet another Dwell post referred. Thank you Brian Fichtner for putting together the very post I’ve wanted to write. My title was tenantively: "The Plastic Garden Chair: What the Fuck?" There is an amazing trend to redesign and modify this simplest and cheapest of iconic chairs. I call it the deer antlers of 2008. People in the know know what I’m talking about.
Noticed: The Plastic Chair Reconsidered - Dwell Blog - dwell.com

Perch, a furniture concept by Simon Dennehy, is one of those aha! ideas that you wonder why you have not seen this concept sooner. The Perch system is comprised of a table and a chair that have been expertly contoured to meet a massively lacking area of furniture design. There is an endless host of useful features in this concept:

• The seat flexes to encourage leg movement
• The frames of the chairs are not only light and simple to operate but also stackable
• The desk is the centerpiece of a clip on shelf system that could accompany a student from desk to desk
• The desk and seat are adjusted with a very simple and easy to use mechanism

Quite frankly, this system makes me wonder really how much school children really matter. I remember when I was in school, my back and butt hurting nearly every day from sitting in the ubiquitous awful school chair. Yet, Mr. Dennehy’s concept, although brilliantly simple, should have been implemented much, much sooner than 2008.

Mixko, as their namesake indicates, is a  company that mixes multiple unlike things together to come up with completely new meanings. They look at an object like a whistle, for instance, and say, “Hey, if the scale of that whistle were multiplied in size by, like four hundred times, then that whistle would make a mighty comfortable lounge chair.” Of course, their mixing does not stop there.  They mix cartoon bubbles with plates, candles with joysticks, and my personal favorite: dog shit with jewelry. The one item informs the other in such refreshing and revealing ways. But the thing that makes Mixko extra special is that they are so young yet so prolific as to beg the question: what will Mixko be in thirty years when the design mashup matures? My answer is that Mixko may rule the earth at that point.

Mathias Claerhout is a self-made man who likes to bring together different materials to come to esthetical and high quality products. His design company, Mathias Claerhout Furniture, aims to distribute his in- and outdoor furniture on an international market. Its most important product is the high quality Deckhopper.
ABC-Authentic Belgian Creativity : Mathias Claerhout

Fabiaan Van Severen received a training in painting, but switched to creating furniture, which he also teaches at the CAD in Brussels and at the Katholieke Hogeschool in Malines. His work is often inspired by architecture and the clear purity of the straight line. His show room May 17 in Ghent presents all his collections, like his minimal Fold an Profile tables and his two chairs Fab and Light, which he also shows in Milan.
ABC-Authentic Belgian Creativity : Fabiaan Van Severen

As an independent designer, Bram Boo, regularly works with Belgian and international manufacturers and brands. By disturbing the usual rules, he aspires to create new ideas and emotions, with a focus on simplicity, function and aesthetic values. Bram Boo is going to present a new range of office furniture called Homeland, composed of a chair, a desk and a cupboard.
ABC-Authentic Belgian Creativity : Bram Boo