Chair Blog | Tumblr

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!

We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve. Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.

Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs. With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of thefastest-growing media networks in the world. Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month. On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day. Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network. The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%.

In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love. In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences. The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience.

As I’ve said before, companies are all about people. Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing. I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them. That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met. He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with. His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.

Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day.

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/

design-is-fine:

Thonet Catalogue, 1904

design-is-fine:

Fauteuil pivokant. Thonet x Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)

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Perriand designed this tubular-steel chair before she met the architect Le Corbusier and joined his studio, in November 1927. Its first use was in the apartment that she designed for herself and her English husband Percy Scholefield, adapting a top-floor photography studio on the place Saint-Sulpice in Paris. Similar chairs had been designed by friends of hers (Rene Herbst, Djo-Bourgeois and Louis Sognot) in Paris, under the influence of designs by Marcel Breuer and Mart Stam, illustrated in design magazines in 1926-7.

design-is-fine:

Sitzbank (Modellreihe Nr. 715/c), Entwurf Gustav Siegel, Ausführung Jacob & Josef Kohn, Wien, vor 1900; Grassi-Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig

Bäume wachsen gerade in den Himmel – mal mehr, mal weniger. Doch der Tischler Thonet wollte Kunst statt Natur, rund geschwungenes Holz, ohne zu schnitzen. Sanft im Wasserdampf gebogen, gelang ihm die Möbelrevolution: Das Patent von 1842 zum Holzverbiegen wird ihn zu völlig neuen Formen inspirieren – leicht und haltbar, mit sehr geringem Materialaufwand. Und nicht nur Thonet, den späteren Designer etlicher Ikonen. Fortan erschließt sich der ganzen Möbelindustrie ein völlig neues Formenrepertoire. Die Wiener Brüder Kohn, Thonets schärfste Konkurrenten, bogen Holz bald sogar noch deutlich schneller: Minutenwerk war nun, was vorher mehr als eine Stunde brauchte, und es trieb die Möbelproduktion effizient voran. Doch erst zur Weltausstellung 1900 setzten die Gebrüder auch auf Gestaltung wie schon jahrzehntelang auf Masse. So wie in Gustav Siegels Sitzbank aus Buche mit ihrem dreidimensionalen Bugholz für Rückenlehne und die vorderen Beine: Die Weltausstellung brachte einen Grand Prix für die Bank und den Entwerfer Siegel, den die Brüder Kohn alsbald zu ihrem Chefdesigner erkoren. Gebogen und zugleich im rechten Winkel, ganz ohne Zierwerk und geprägt vom Jugendstil, weist die Sitzbank weit hinaus in Richtung Bauhaus und Werkbund.

design-is-fine:

August Thonet, reclining couch, model no. 2 chaise longue, 1888. Beech, wicker.

delirium-clemens:

Thonets Wi(e)derkehr

“Mitte April eröffnet im Stilwerk ein Thonet-Showroom. Die alte deutsch-wienerische Marke kehrt nach Jahren zurück. Ideen und Erfinder-geist Michael Thonets sollen aufleben – auch dank junger, österreichischer Möbel-Designer.” Text/Bild (c) DIE PRESSE, 2013