Video: Chair from "chair" (concept project)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Very often, designers create their projects based on existing ones. Indeed, it is not for nothing that the proverb says: everything new is a well-forgotten old. And there is nothing bad in using old, already forgotten ideas by someone.
Surely many have heard about the project of the American Joseph Kosuth, named "One and Three Chairs." The work, created back in 1965, contained three objects - a chair, a photograph of a chair and a dictionary definition of what a chair is. The work is considered one of the first examples of conceptual art that almost everyone knows about these days. Designer Eric Ku says that he was inspired by this idea, and it was on its basis that he created his project. Using the alphabet, namely the ‘chair’ in English, he created this piece of furniture.
As we can see, the letter A serves as a backrest, R and H are designed to be legs. On the letter C we place our fifth point, and the letter I connects the two legs. I believe that this is nothing more than an example of conceptual art, because the chair has no special practical significance. This is not to say that it is soft, comfortable, or any special. But the project contains an idea supported by certain facts. Namely, many projects are appreciated for the idea, and here it is such that the chair is made from a “chair”, from this word.
Designer: Eric Ku
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