I was going to make a crack about Frank Gehry designing furniture; then I checked online and discovered that Frank Gehry actually does design furniture. And his designs look saner and more useful than this thing. Not particularly sane, mind you, but saner than this.
LOL - I agree - even chairs made out of corrugated cardboard make more sense than that thing. He was my teacher, and while I used to do some bentwood lamination furniture when I was in class, once I got out on my own my natural inclination was to use giant pieces of wood and avoid joinery altogether.
There was a teacher up at The College of the Redwoods named James Krenov. Every single one of his students built a box on legs. You can always tell a Krenov student, but as they say, you can't tell them much.
Anyway, there are only a couple of surrealists I like, and while I admire the craftsmanship that Michael Cooper puts into his work, the results are, shall we say, curious.
A friend of mine, long ago, went to RISD. She told me that in her freshman Design class, each student was given a big sheet of corrugated cardboard and a box-cutter, and told to make a functional chair using nothing else. I always thought that was neat.
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"...and on top of all its other meshuggah qualities this chair is guaranteed to make the sitter nauseous!"
I was going to make a crack about Frank Gehry designing furniture; then I checked online and discovered that Frank Gehry actually does design furniture. And his designs look saner and more useful than this thing. Not particularly sane, mind you, but saner than this.
LOL - I agree - even chairs made out of corrugated cardboard make more sense than that thing. He was my teacher, and while I used to do some bentwood lamination furniture when I was in class, once I got out on my own my natural inclination was to use giant pieces of wood and avoid joinery altogether.
There was a teacher up at The College of the Redwoods named James Krenov. Every single one of his students built a box on legs. You can always tell a Krenov student, but as they say, you can't tell them much.
Anyway, there are only a couple of surrealists I like, and while I admire the craftsmanship that Michael Cooper puts into his work, the results are, shall we say, curious.
A friend of mine, long ago, went to RISD. She told me that in her freshman Design class, each student was given a big sheet of corrugated cardboard and a box-cutter, and told to make a functional chair using nothing else. I always thought that was neat.
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