Monday, August 4, 2008

An objective look at 'designer' furniture.

A few days ago i picked up these Karim Rashid 'Butterfly' chairs, produced by Magis. Much of Rashid's work is brushed off as 21st century plastic crap - 'blobjects' so to speak. I lost my prejudice and splashed out.

Viewed in isolation - a single chair in a white studio shot -they would look completely without purpose; potentially the reason for their criticisim. In this room, they add a lifelike quality. Little organic creatures injecting personality, colour and dare i say it, a little fun.

For a plastic chair, they're pretty comfortable as well.

5 comments:

Sash said...

tom you now have 8 karim rashid chairs and a marc newson one..

sharing is caring!!

tombaker said...

too comfortable to share.

Huon Lui said...

nice pad~;)

Minka said...

Oh so these are the chairs you keep talking about... Awsome.. Like the marc newson one too!

Nice nice table.... intresting detail on the legs. ^^

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