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Hippo and Potamus by Mia Gammelgaard for Blå Station
Stockholm 2011: designer Mia Gammelgaard of Copenhagen showed this wooden chair with leg warmers for Swedish firm Blå Station at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week.
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Alongside the Hippo chair Gammelgaard launched a matching three-legged table named Potamus.
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Blå Station ran a competition to design leg warmers for the chair, voted for by visitors to their stand at the fair.
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Linnéa Regnlund's winning leg-warmer design is shown in the image above.
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Here's some more information from Blå Station:
Hippo & Potamus
Design: Mia Gammelgaard 2O1O A new friend in wood. Rounded lines that are friendly and welcoming, Hippo, is a wooden chair that takes the distinctive lines of a traditional Swedish stick-back chair and adds a generous helping of light- hearted modernity.
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Hippo balances between the graceful poise of a ballerina and the strength and stability of a hippopotamus.
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It was first shown at the Danish Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition, “White-Out” in Copenhagen on 29 October 2010.
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The table Potamus, is presented for the first time at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2011.
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The table is the perfect partner for Hippo chair and can be used in, for example, cafés or restaurant settings.
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