Who Needs Furniture?
Furniture spends most of its time getting in the way. So why not stick it on the wall when you’re not using it?
That’s what student designer Theo Zeniou proposes with his work Who needs furniture? Maybe there’s already too much stuff? Maybe we should just stop?—an exhibition by Buckinghamshire New University’s MA furniture design and technology graduates, on display at the Vitra showroom in London.
Zeniou's designs include a mini office that morphs into a cartoon garden, and a stool that miraculously becomes an abstract flower. His painting-cum-furniture pieces use bright colors and cartoon imagery derived from kids' drawings. The idea of turning furniture into a kind of 3D picture is an interesting one; maybe there are other ways to explore the concept.
Perhaps we might be seeing bright, three-dimensional, Van Gough-inspired chairs hung on our walls in the future? Or for that matter, Andy Warhol's Electric Chairs or Francis Bacon's Screaming Pope Thrones? Maybe the whole of art history could be plundered for the comfortable and useful.
That’s what student designer Theo Zeniou proposes with his work Who needs furniture? Maybe there’s already too much stuff? Maybe we should just stop?—an exhibition by Buckinghamshire New University’s MA furniture design and technology graduates, on display at the Vitra showroom in London.
Zeniou's designs include a mini office that morphs into a cartoon garden, and a stool that miraculously becomes an abstract flower. His painting-cum-furniture pieces use bright colors and cartoon imagery derived from kids' drawings. The idea of turning furniture into a kind of 3D picture is an interesting one; maybe there are other ways to explore the concept.
Perhaps we might be seeing bright, three-dimensional, Van Gough-inspired chairs hung on our walls in the future? Or for that matter, Andy Warhol's Electric Chairs or Francis Bacon's Screaming Pope Thrones? Maybe the whole of art history could be plundered for the comfortable and useful.
Posted by: Sam Jacob on Jan 29, 08 at 09:00 AM PST
That is freakin' awesome. I want one.
Posted by Tau Davis on 01/30/08 08:06AM PST
Wow. That's such a truly amazing and unique concept. Delightful.
Posted by Adrienne Breaux on 01/29/08 10:09PM PST
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