Hoy traemos este artículo de The international design magazine de February 27, 2008 by Julie Lasky. Por cierto la mesita azul y la silla verde no os recuerda a algo?. Yo tengo una en casa de hace años…
Reporting for this magazine about last year’s Milan Furniture Fair, I noted that many of the products had a freeform quality, but with shapes that were less biomorphic than geomorphic—i.e., not globular or squishy but fractured and chunky. I was thinking of Maarten Baas’s Sculpt furniture pieces, which are blown-up versions of miniature sketches with their imprecise lines left intact. (Baas’s previous furniture group, Clay, was literally earthy.) I also had in mind Ineke Hans’s Fracture collection for Cappellini—polyester “bandages” wrapped around polystyrene to form squat chairs and tables. What convinced me that I was in the presence of a legitimate trend, however, was a little voice in my head that erupted when I saw these stumpy or lumpy objects. A song, really. It went like this:
Flintstones, meet the Flintstones.
They’re the modern Stone Age family.
From the town of Bedrock,
They’re a page right out of history.
Was I hallucinating? I returned home, leafed through an Ikea catalog, and noticed children’s furniture with big, round drawer pulls and goofy conical legs. Bloggers led me to the Mass Storage Stone, the prototype for a portable 4-gigabyte hard drive formed like a rock. And then came Wolff Olins’s design for the London 2012 Olympics logo. Many recoiled at the neon-colored lightning bolts because of their ungainliness, but I saw something geological (like a fault line) crossed with something bright, exaggerated, and awkward (like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon), and the theme song returned once again:
Let’s ride with the family down the street
By the courtesy of Fred’s two feet. (leer más…)
Fuente: [The international design magazine]
