Just curious to know from you guys if there's always been one specific product of good design (furniture, lighting, object) that you've always lusted after but stil don't have because it's too expensive, discontinued or whatever.
I think all I really want is the Bojensen wooden monkey but I'm not going to pay $100 for it.
Damn, only one thing?
Well, if I really had to choose, I'd pick a extremely rare version of Eero Saarinen's No. 71 chair with plywood back and wooden legs, both made with teak. This version was only made in Belgium under license from Knoll. The No. 71 chair is one of my favourite chairs of all time so owning this version would be mindblowing.
By the way, if you have some spare wooden legs for such a chair lying around, please mail me. Hints are welcome too 🙂
Not one but three...
1. Bugatti Veyron. Ferdinand Piesch is the only visionary car executive who has consistently pushed out the envelope on what any particular car or brand could be--be it humble or exotic. The Veyron sports car is his masterpiece, because it is magnificient, and because it exposes all the other super cars of by today as posers. It is absolutely necessary in our current baroque age of pointless, superficial product variation that design follow two contradictory paths in order to escape and commence a new enlightenment. The first path is that recommended by koen. One group of talented, dedicated designers must move toward sustainability in design. Another group of talented, dedicated, perhaps fanatical designers must move in another direction: they must target faux excellence spun by marketers and leap ahead of it in order to remind people of just how good things can be designed and made. If these two paths are hewn through the current forest of crap that is the detritus of the global economy, the common landscape of our time will facilitate their convergence into one path again--into something that liberates humanity again, rather than humiliates it--into something that celebrates humanity rather than intimidates it. Maybe I'm being too Hegelian here, but its about time the progressive, enlightened thinkers and designers took the dialectical tool away from the regressives and put it once again to uses serving humanity rather than to uses aimed at dumbing it down and enslaving it.
2. A Charles Rennie Macintosh blue and white striped bed room. It is like the entire bedroom is a perfectly coordinated and integrated set of the most magnificiently comfortable pajamas one has ever lounged in. I love the concept, the colors, the lines, the massing, the furniture, everything. But I will have to divorce my wife to have it done, because she hates it.
3. A Model 21 Winchester side by side; .28 gauge; modified and improved cylinder. I've given up hunting as an adult, because it is irrationally destructive, but as a boy I confess that I exhalted in the camaraderie of the hunt and was in awe of some of the great shotguns of the world that one of my father's friends owned and shared with me. The Model 21 was the plainest of all the exotic low production shotguns I ever saw and fired and yet it was the closest to perfection in its design. There was not one unecessary thing about it and all of what was there hung together in a harmony of line and form that any exceptional designer could appreciate. Why do I want a shotgun when I don't hunt? For the same reason I lust for a car with great gobs of performance I'll never use; because it is a magnificient artifact. To borrow from the French, if I recall correctly, beauty is still as useful as something useful, is it not?
LOCKHEAD LOUNGE
It is quite easy to find or cheap to buy most of the above.
I will never be able to have the only piece i lust for.
That's Marc Newson's Lockhead Lounge ...
Does anybody knows if this piece was prodused in multiples ? or it is just a one-off ? Is there one for sale?
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