Here is my Gestures for the Chair project I started, as well as my maquette that I made from paper. I did a combination of hanging and standing chairs. I played with if someone would be able to actually comfortably sit on it, or if it would be more visual then functional. I ended up…
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The Hush Seating Pod I was drawn to this chair mainly due to its color and texture. The softness of the fabric and the warm colors have a connotation of safety and home. The organic shape that is mostly round also has very non-threatening connections. While the shape is more round its not so round…
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Chairs are something that those who live in western culture use every day. Yet they are often something constantly overlooked, at most some people may have a favorite chair, or think certain kinds are more comfortable over others. But why do chairs look the way they do? How long have humans used them? How is…
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“The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.” –Clive Bell For Clive Bell, the determination of a good art piece was not in its technical skill, or in its ability to invoke emotions by connotation, but instead by the emotions…
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