Westport Chair, 1905: Thomas Lee
The Westport Chair, otherwise known as the classic Adirondack wood chair, is a good example of what we might call a generic product: a simple, seminal idea realized in a material that it is ideally… / leer más
The Westport Chair, otherwise known as the classic Adirondack wood chair, is a good example of what we might call a generic product: a simple, seminal idea realized in a material that it is ideally… / leer más
Harry Bertoia, while designing his classic wire chairs, was interested in exploring the formal expression of sitting on air; of sitting on as little structure as possible. Sitting on air is a design idea, a… / leer más
Earl Tupper, the inventor and designer of Tupperware, broke a few rules of production. Breaking a single ‘rule’ of production can sometimes lead to new formal solutions as seen with Thonet. Tupper did just that… / leer más
The Crystal Palace was designed by Joseph Paxton (1803 – 1865), a well-known gardener who was familiar with green house design, to house the great exposition of 1851. The Crystal Palace was one of the… / leer más
Michael Thonet’s determination to bend wood efficiently and consistently produced the classic Thonet side chair. We couldn’t possibly believe that the form of Thonet’s chairs follows primarily from their function. We unavoidably perceive that material… / leer más
Cesca Chair Noticing that steel tubing could be formed into bicycle handlebars is supposedly what sparked the idea for Marcel Breuer’s classic “Cesca” chair. Taken separately from the manufacturing process, each of Breuer’s expressions of… / leer más
An intimate knowledge of material is necessary, probably as intimate as that of craftsmen – a facility with the material lets us understand what it wants to be. This a dilemma in a specialized society… / leer más
The intent of this collection of essays is to clarify the relationship between art and design. That they are not one and the same. To draw a clear picture of the processes by which things… / leer más
I was always fascinated with the way things are made. When I was a kid I loved making stuff. During my education I met some wonderful people who explained and showed me how to make… / leer más
El arquitecto venezolano Miguel Braceli, miembro del equipo de profesores del Taller X de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad Central de Venezuela en Caracas, propuso recientemente a sus alumnos una exploración tridimensional… / leer más
La constatación del trabajo de diseñadores iberoamericanos fuera de sus países, tanto en el área profesional como en las experiencias dentro de instituciones académicas, podría ayudar a conocer la influencia e impacto de la región en… / leer más
Esta última entrega sobre educación y diseño abordará tres premisas claves a la hora de intervenir una comunidad. Ellas tienen como base estrategias para leer los espacios urbanos, ideas para abrir el diálogo social y… / leer más