A certain
sense of humor -- sometimes called "wit" -- goes along with a piece like this. It's like a joke; either you get it or you don't ?
After all the dead seriousness of the high-design collector world, a moment of humor -- a bit of light-hearted play -- is quite a relief !
To use this piece, the cushions are placed against the chair backs as needed, I suppose.
Perhaps
the point in not whether one would own one of these -- place it in one's living room -- but just to see the idea put into form. One doesn't need to possess the Eiffel Tower or the Mona Lisa to enjoy their existence on this planet. (In a nutshell, that's my take on collecting, in fact -- which frees up a lot of space in my rooms, to say nothing of the savings !)
In this way, it's the furnitectural equivalent of conceptual art ?
It must
be me -- but in visual terms, I like the chair much more than the "sofa" -- and there can't be much argument about which would function better !
To find that chair acceptable merely requires that one had never seen the original. Again, maybe I'm just too old to get excited about any of this. Maybe it's time I hung up my DA hat. . .
The passion ebbs and flows......
The passion ebbs and flows... the relentless commerciality of it gets me down sometimes. The sofa is presented as a commercial product, if it wasn't and it wasn't a direct descendant of the Droog piece there might be something worth considering, as it is it's a joke, and not in the way it was intended to be.
But *blah* yer right, its not important, I think I've got the design ennui virus again, thanks SDR.
A real design issue could have been looked at by Zanotta with something like this, why is it that art gallery seating is allways this awful bench, padded if you're lucky, a plywood stool if you're not. Its hard to relax and enjoy the art on a bench, I'd like to see LCMs or some PK22s, or something completely new. At least you might be able to contemplate in some comfort and have a feeling of your own territory...I've never seen more than 2 people sharing an art gallery bench.
I agree with Azure
some things : the Prince Charles, the Vogue Sofa, the Starck Masters chair - are interesting mental exercises that are funny on the page. Most things are usually less funny in execution and shouldn't make it past the prototype/one-off stage.
...at least Droog knows that they are being humorous.
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