Tuesday 29 March 2011
Monday 7 March 2011
HD3D002 Furniture Design
PROJECT 1
Carlo Bugatti
Italy 1856 - 1940
Chair - 1902
Wood, painted and gilt vellum, copper
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Germany/ United states 1886 - 1969
Barcelona Chair - 1929 designed, 1960's manufactured
Leather, stainless steel, other material
Charles Eames
United states 1907 - 1978
Lounge chair 670 - 1956 designed, 1972 manufactured
Leather, plywood, alluminium, nylon, zip, other materials
Poul Kjaerholm
Denmark 1929 - 80
Hammock chair 24 - 1965
Arne Jacobsen
Denmark 1902 - 71
Swan chair - 1958 designed, 1968 manufactured
Eero Aarnio
Finland 1932
Globe chair - 1963 - 1965 designed, 1960 manufactured
Gaetano Pesce
Italy 1939
Up chair - 1969
Marc Newson
Australia 1986
Lockhead lounge - 1985 - 86
Fibreglass, aluminium, rubber
Philippe Starck
France 1949
W.W.Stool - 1990 designed, 2002 manufactured
Ron Arad
Israel/ England 1951
Tom vac Chair - 1997 - 2001
Frank O Gehry
United states 1929
Wiggle side chair - 1972 designed, 2003 manufactured
Cardboard
Sketches
Marc Newson
Marc Newson is the most acclaimed and influential designer of his generation. He has worked across a wide range of disciplines, creating everything from furniture and household objects, to bicycles and cars, private and commercial aircraft, yachts, various architectural commissions, and signature sculptural pieces for clients across the globe. He is known for his funky, sexy, futuristic, but technically rigorous approach to design.
He was born in Sydney, and spent much of his childhood travelling in Europe and Asia. He started experimenting with furniture design as a student and, after graduation, was awarded a grant from the Australian Crafts Council with which he staged his first exhibition featuring the “Lockheed Lounge” a piece that has now, twenty years later, set three consecutive world records at auction.
He was born in Sydney, and spent much of his childhood travelling in Europe and Asia. He started experimenting with furniture design as a student and, after graduation, was awarded a grant from the Australian Crafts Council with which he staged his first exhibition featuring the “Lockheed Lounge” a piece that has now, twenty years later, set three consecutive world records at auction.
It is the realisation of his image of "a fluid metallic form, like a giant blob of mercury" based "loosely" on the 18th century chaises longue he had seen in reproductions of French paintings. He made it himself by hammering hundreds of aluminium panels on to an home-made fiberglass mould. His sleek and Luxuriantly approach design was the felt chair and orgone lounge. Qantas sky bed, Rock doorstop and Syn recording studio in Tokyo are few of his great designs from the collection.
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