Some designers just take creativity to another level. By that I mean, they overdo creativity so as to obliterate the essence of the work of art. I wouldn’t have given a negative review of Japanese Designer Tokujin Yoshioka if it weren’t for his aluminum chair, the scheme of which I completely fail to understand. The chair called Memory is plastered in a dome of fabric made of recycled aluminum which retains the shape it is squashed into. In the designer’s words, “Memory is a chair that completes its design by transforming its silhouette”.

Now, when I come to think of it, the intended idea behind the design is beautiful, but there hasn’t been enough substance to uphold that expression. However, I’m still curious to know what ‘sitters’ think about the crumpled aluminum chair when it is launched in Milan next month.
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Topics: Furniture Tags: on April 1, 2010

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