What's left to say?
The gold leafed Eames chair on ebay was a much more valid commentary on the preciousness of the Eames object than the Shire chair. These lack any sort of home - they don't have the same sort of mass-produced quality of the Louis Ghost chair, nor do they have the over-the-top flamboyant monetary value of the Robber Baron series.
This message has been said over and over and over...design objects are precious. We get it. Beyond any critique of the Eames legacy, this is just boring pastiche.
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There are some pieces like this which I can understand (David Pye on the chimera of functionalism is really good) and agree with Lucifer that the gilded chair was far more succesful.
There seems so much work like this where the so called reasoning or content behind it is applied after the fact, the initial motivation behind producing it being nothing more than an adolesecnt 'he he he he this will cool won't it?"
I agree, the gold Eames chair...
I agree, the gold Eames chair was a more "valid" approach to preciousness. I say that largely because it's an obvious (intentional?) commentary. I don't think Shire was going for gaudy kitsch...more tounge in cheek seriousness This chair is more art than furniture...a surreal Duchamp over Warhol pop? Preciousness aside, one could also argue the other way...that this chair reflects the Warhol school of personality (think "Marilyn" or "Elvis" multi-color silkscreens). I'm not proclaiming absolutes...but trying to make sense of this.
It's the tension that keeps this interesting....weather we like it or not. It's certainly relevant to the current "Eames Era" obsession. Which is why, if so boring, we've even talking about it.
but the thing is......
these things don't even approach being well wrought or artistic enough to compare them to the concrete LC2, the flamboyant embellishment of the wassily chair or even approach something as sophisticated as "post modern surrealism"
shire is a hack and modernica isn't really an authority on art, class or design either..... so what does a collaboration between the two spawn ? a retarded red-headed step-child.
wheres the appeal ??
its just pretty awful any way it is sliced.
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