There just is something right about this design...
My eyes don't get tired of looking at it. There's something of an Escher drawing quality to it that keeps leading my eyes around and back into it. Color of finish is fine. Does anyone have any thoughts about the opposition between the lamination layering on the edges vs. the wood grain on the sides? Does it matter? Would edges of solid wood be any more or less appealing? In some ways the lamination striation (luv that rhyme)leads my eyes around and around the design, which I like. In another way it seems binary opposition with the natural grain that jars a little and which is not replicated anywhere else in the piece, except perhaps between glass and wood. Kind of thinking out loud here.
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... and this seems to be my lucky week as I just got an email informing me I'd won the Irish lottery and I'm getting 10 million from this poor lady in Nigeria whose husband died under tragic and suspicious circumstances! Good things always come in threes...
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dcwilson - my two cents:
I feel that it is the "escher-like" continuation of the shapes that is the most pleasing aspect of this design.
My eye is led from one piece to the other without interruption-almost like waves - in a fluid motion. It is the type of shape that gives one cause to study it for a moment - not just a glance. For me - I can get quite mesmerized by a shape as well as the minutiae of detail, but it is the shape here that is its dominant feature. I think that the striations in the plywood and the face grain of the boards are a bit distracting. Just because one has an affection for the qualities of a material does not mean that that material is most suitable for the application. A bent plywood eames chair is interesting because it is all about curved lines - not only the shapes of the individual pieces but the curves that accentuate the pieces in the form of the laminations of the plywood. I would not,however, use bent plywood as a material for a car body or a blender.
I really like the shapes of this design when they are executed in an unencumbered fasion i.e. painted or of a solid material. It seems to me that this design could accomodate an end-user input in the number of pieces that they want to incorporate - like Nagel candle holders. What is to say that instead of only two or three pieces, one could order eight and build a large round coffee table? The designer could also offer modified shapes to be slightly taller, and then be used for a dining height table...(?)
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".. and this seems to be my lucky week as I just got an email informing me I'd won the Irish lottery and I'm getting 10 million from this poor lady in Nigeria whose husband died under tragic and suspicious circumstances! Good things always come in threes..." you might have to share your luck as l received a similar mail.
You could could also produce this design from EPS (expanded polystyrene foam) and curve the elements when looking at it in plan view
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