final design

developed mock up

This is my final design of my mock up but there is still some small changes that I need to do so I could start to do my 1:1 scaled model after i decided i have chosen this design.

half scaled mock up development

This is also a half scaled mock up that i developed from the previous design. i was thinking to solve the problem of back rest but is abit too much and also complicated. So, i need to do another design.

half scaled mock up

Half scaled model that made of cardboard and wires but this is not the final design yet because I need to improve the back rest.

cafe environment

This is where my concept come from. Eclipse cafe is really an unique cafe.

Development of Equisse Four

Esquisse Four - Material Synergy

This week we also asked to make two scaled mock ups of chairs but this time we did cafe chair using the same method, no glue nor fixing.















My first cafe chair design gives the feeling of confidence of balance and stabilization toward the user because it has more stands than the common chair out there and those stands are jointed with different locking systems which made by wires. The design itself add some credits to the chair but i feel that it looks a bit chunky and it doesn't have a place for hand rest.
















The second design of my cafe chair looks toward modernism. As you can see, the seat of the chair create the feeling suspension when seating due to how I bend the wood. Unfortunately there is a bad side about this design is that it doesn't have a backrest for the user to lean on it.

Equisse Three - 'Form vs Function'

This week we are required to create two scaled mock-ups of a structure designed to hold the human body. Chair is the best product which can hold a human body very well. So, i decided to design 2 chair scaled mock-ups to complete this week topic; form vs function.


Function Model














I was trying to designed a chaise lounge which can support every single parts of human body. Comfortable is very important for people who look for a function chair so i designed it based on the words comfortable and relax. As you see the structure of the chair is quite familiar for people who has seen the masterpiece of Le Corbusier, LC4 Chaise Longue. I followed the structure of LC4 because the reclining position is still recommended by orthopedists today. The design is jointed with many pieces of woods so that it won't make u feel hot no matter how long u had seat on it and also the adjustable back allow you to read or sleep on the chair. On the other hand, the only bad side of the chair is user can't move around with the chair as they like.


Form Model



















This next piece of chair is a form design. As we know form chair means that it can be any design you want as long as it can show the unique of the model or you can say a chair not to sit but a sculpture to appreciate with your eyes. So, i designed the chair based on nature, flower is one of the nature category and when the first second you see the chair the word flower might cross your mind because i used wire to play with flower. Besides, the chair also represent a glass of cocktail with decoration. Even though the chair doesn't look comfortable, it definitely can support human body. But how to separate the parts instead of one piece then it would be much more easy to produce it is the only thing i realized that i need to refine it.

Equisse two - 'Locking Systems'

locking system 1
















locking system 2
















locking system 3
















locking system 4
















locking system 5

Esquisse One_ Triangulation

LIST C

MARC NEWSON




















Marc Newson is from Sydney, Australia and graduated in jewelry and sculpture. He works from Tokyo to Paris and then to London. He feels that a designer have to crazy about something or I would say to be knowledgeable. After seeing his designs, I feel that most of his designs are in organic shape and looks futuristic. Nowadays, he is one of the most innovative and an influential self-taught designer. Many of his designs are not for mass-produced, but are limited addiction being sold at auctions. The Lockheed Lounge chair is the highlight in his career and it was sold at an auction with about 700,000 pound. It is never a comfortable chair but a sculpture. It is made of fiberglass, aluminium and rubber. “A shimmering bolides form that recalls the biomorphic sculpture of Jean Arp, Alexander Archipenko and Isamu Noguchi”, he said. How the chair aluminium covered the homemade fiberglass mould was inspired by how the aeroplane is made. Due to his hectic life most of his designs are born on aeroplanes , that’s the only time he would have his silent environment.

References
Online:
-http://designmuseum.org/design/marc-newson
-http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/newson.html
-http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/previous/marc_newson.asp
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoS71sBKESI



PHILLIPE STARCK



















He was born in Paris and his father who was an aircraft designer inspired him. A suite’s design in Elysee Palace in Paris brought him to the next level. Now, he is the most well known designer and also one of the most prolific. I think he is an interesting man. He loves to do his projects in front of the sea. As I can see, most of his designs’ style is more toward to freedom and futuristic. Philippe’s design shows his desire for transgression and subverts expectation. I found my favourite piece in his catalogue that he designed as a part of a fantasy office environment for the film director Wim Wenders. The design looks clean and unique. It is more like a sculpture than a chair or as a support for users who prefer to almost stand against the bar stool rather than sit down. The technique of sand- casting allows the flowing organic form in just one-piece mould.


References
Online:
-http://designmatcher.com/nl/gallery_detail.php?galleryID=1446
-http://www.luminaire.com/designers/philippe_starck/
-http://www.bonluxat.com/a/Philippe_Starck_W._W._Stool.html
-http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/starck.html
-http://www.hotelbarstools.com/the-w-w-stool-by-philippe-starck
-http://www.owo.it/en/shopping/6926/vitra-ww-stool.html

List B

Achille Castiglioni

Achille Castiglioni’s secret is to joke all the time. He was graduated in 1944 as architecture, but he began working with his elder brothers, Livio and Pier Giacomo in an industrial design studio. At last he turned up a product designer and also a popular tutor in polytechnic university. Today, many of his work are in the collections of many international museum of modern art. He shows how a simple object could intelligently fulfilled the user, and also applied those criteria to his work. The ideas of their well-known Ready-Made design, Sella bicycle seat stool fulfilled what he wants, he designed it because he likes to move around, and also sit, but not completely sit. His mezzadro chair was amazed, he successfully designed a chair stand with just a leg. His contention was that to design a new product or to improve an existing one, the designer had a responsibility first to analyze whether it was necessary and then to investigate what sort of ‘means’, were available to develop and produce it. References: Online; - http://designmuseum.org/design/achille-castiglioni - http://www.designboom.com/achille.html - http://www.art-directory.info/design/achille-castiglioni- 1918/index.shtml - http://www.luminaire.com/designers/achille_castiglioni/

Book;

- Furniture, edited by Penny Sparke, published by Bell &

Hyman

- Achille Castiglioni, edited by Paolo Ferrari, published

by Centre Georges Pompidou

Poul Kjaerholm

Poul Kjaerholm originally wanted to be a painter,

but he continued his education and was known as

a knowledgeable and talented young man. In 1955,

he began a partnership with his manufacturer

friend and also a started his academic career. His

PK22 chair was the beginning of his successful

career in furniture design. As we can see from his

designs, the character of his design is more to

elegance, clean lines and remarkable attention to

detail and he could not design pieces that lack of

character. He tends to design products that could

be mass-produced and sell with affordable prices.

Most of his designs are inspired by his love of

nature and he loves to combine material into one

product rather than just simply produced with one

material especially steel a material with the same

artistic merit as wood and leather. He considers

steel a merrit. His PK24’s design is similar as the

LC4 chaise longue, through the improved of

material and technologies, he managed to make

the chair looks light and simple with cane and

steel.

References: Online; - http://www.furnituredesign24.com/poul-kjaerholm.aspx - http://www.designaddict.com/design_index/index.cfm/fu seaction/designer_show_one/DESIGNER_ID/311/ - http://www.danish-furniture.com/designers/poul-kjaerholm/

Book;

- Modern Chair, 1918 - 1970, published by Lund Humphries

Publishers Limited

Be4U - Furniture Design History - List A

Gerrith Rietveld

Gerrith Rietveld is

a Dutch architect

and furniture

designer. First, his

father trained him

as a cabinet-maker

and then he

concentrated largely

on architecture after

that. Rietveld became

a member of De Stijil

movement and also

became an architect in

1919. The ‘De Stijil’

movement influences

the design and the

color of the chair.

At the time, he designed

one of the most radical chairs of the twentieth century, the

Red Blue chair. In the group of three-dimensional works,

vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in planes, which

are strictly planar. According to the chair’s designed, the

planes for the body made a good structure sitting position

and providing longer-term comfort for health. In Rietveld’s

furniture, many of the Rietveld joint were doweled, he aims

to keep each part simple and clear.

References:

Online;

- http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/blog/?p

=115

- http://www.terraingallery.org/Anthony-Romeo-Chair.html

- http://www.modernfurnitureclassics.com/index.php/main

_page/editorial/title/Title%202

- http://www.andriesvanonck.com/bamboojoint.html

-http://www.modernfurnituredesigners.interiordezine.com/

items/itemgerritreitveldredbluechair.html

Books;

- The Complete Works: Gerrith Rietveld 1888 - 1964, edited by

Marijke Kuper Ida van Zijl, published by Prinston Architectural

Press, Inc

- The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, edited by Galen

Cranz, published by W.W. Norton & Company

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier was born

in La Chaux-de-Fonds,

Switzerland, 1887. From

what I had read, through

his design I feel that no

matter is architecture or

furniture comfortable

always come first. He

starts his design in a

different way, he would

first think of the

surroundings of the

person live in or thinking

about body, hands, eyes

rather than the product.

The LC4 Chaise Longue

was his masterpiece,

which association with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte

Perriand. The idea of Chaise Longue came from how the

soldier lie down when he is tired, and it is a medically

recommended position. Due to the Chaise Longue he did

a lot of studies and experiences on body position reflecting

ergonomic consideration, metals and also screws and

springs. They end up creating a chaise longue, where the

whole body is supported in a reclining position, which is

still recommended by orthopedists today, whereas the

‘Red Blue’ chair is only supported in a semi-reclining

position.

Reference:

Online;

- http://architect.architecture.sk/le-corbusier-architect/

le-corbusier-architect.php

- http://www.bauhaus2yourhouse.com/Le_Corbusier_

Chaise_Lounge__LC4_-Prod216

Books;

- The LC4 Chaise Longue by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret

and Charlotte Perriand, edited by Volker Fischer, published

by Verlag form

- The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, edited

by Galen Cranz, published by W.W. Norton & Company