Comments on: Another Chair by Karen Ryan http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/ architecture and design magazine Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:19:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mikaël http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/comment-page-1/#comment-198460 mikaël Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:13:26 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/#comment-198460 Using found objects as a ready-made or incorporating one in designs isn't new. This modus operandi definitely has its own esthetics and has known a surge in the last years. Everybody's doing it. But it has apparently just become auto-referential and is now to set go back in the shadows, never to die in the hart of hardcore aficionados. Its heydays are in its past but may one day come back. that said, if its art, don't sit on it, if you do, if becomes applied art, witch is also called design, unless you were supposed to sit on it in the first placed, then I can't help you. Using found objects as a ready-made or incorporating one in designs isn’t new. This modus operandi definitely has its own esthetics and has known a surge in the last years. Everybody’s doing it. But it has apparently just become auto-referential and is now to set go back in the shadows, never to die in the hart of hardcore aficionados. Its heydays are in its past but may one day come back. that said, if its art, don’t sit on it, if you do, if becomes applied art, witch is also called design, unless you were supposed to sit on it in the first placed, then I can’t help you.

]]> By: cram http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/comment-page-1/#comment-196546 cram Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:59:40 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/#comment-196546 It takes design like this to encourage other designers to get their heads out of their asses and consider if another chair is really the answer. Well done on drawing attention to the obvious, keep it up. It takes design like this to encourage other designers to get their heads out of their asses and consider if another chair is really the answer. Well done on drawing attention to the obvious, keep it up.

]]> By: Jose http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/comment-page-1/#comment-187367 Jose Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:33:47 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/#comment-187367 Yet another proof of the poor quality of current british design... Please don't arrange London Design Festival again. Ever. Yet another proof of the poor quality of current british design…
Please don’t arrange London Design Festival again.
Ever.

]]> By: JuiceMajor² http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/comment-page-1/#comment-186623 JuiceMajor² Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:07:49 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/#comment-186623 This is what happen when you don't wish to get rid of junks and make something good out of it. It is creative but....just too flaky!! This is what happen when you don’t wish to get rid of junks and make something good out of it. It is creative but….just too flaky!!

]]> By: fiona http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/comment-page-1/#comment-186561 fiona Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:18:25 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/#comment-186561 What a waste of some nice old chairs. I would rather have seen the originals restored or updated. To me this just reeks of 'trying too hard to be different'. I went to art school- I get the whole idea of looking at something in a different way but to be honest im just bored of it now. Id rather look at a simple, well made honest product. What a waste of some nice old chairs. I would rather have seen the originals restored or updated. To me this just reeks of ‘trying too hard to be different’. I went to art school- I get the whole idea of looking at something in a different way but to be honest im just bored of it now. Id rather look at a simple, well made honest product.

]]> By: sahuston http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/comment-page-1/#comment-186411 sahuston Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:34:54 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/#comment-186411 P.S. ..... Look at Ettore Sottsass. May not be the most beautiful stuff but it is progressive and innovative. Makes people think differently about the objects they live with. These things are important in design and to the history of design. P.S. ….. Look at Ettore Sottsass. May not be the most beautiful stuff but it is progressive and innovative. Makes people think differently about the objects they live with. These things are important in design and to the history of design.

]]> By: shuston http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/comment-page-1/#comment-186410 shuston Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:32:28 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/#comment-186410 Come on it is quite obvious this is not for mass production so I can not figure out why some of you are wasting your breath to talk about this in an "industrial designed furniture" context. For example look what Jamie Hayon and Studio Job are doing ... not much different. Some times design can be about the dialogue that happens because of it. Think about runway fashion. Not many of Alexander Mc Queen's pieces are wearable, but in the end the little fashions that happen within his pieces are passed down through the fashion design world. At some point you end up seeing those things in a place like Urban Outfitters .. ect.. You either like things like this and Droog and Hayon and Studio Job or you hate it. Just like someone likes or hates Nike's new shoe design or Herman Millers new office cubical designs. There is two types of conversations going on in design, and I think they both matter. "# emil Says: October 8th, 2008 at 5:00 pm I’ll put a rock in my room and will tell that it is a chair :D:D Am I a designer?? Or not?" It's already been done ... sorry Emil........ http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/ Come on it is quite obvious this is not for mass production so I can not figure out why some of you are wasting your breath to talk about this in an “industrial designed furniture” context. For example look what Jamie Hayon and Studio Job are doing … not much different. Some times design can be about the dialogue that happens because of it. Think about runway fashion. Not many of Alexander Mc Queen’s pieces are wearable, but in the end the little fashions that happen within his pieces are passed down through the fashion design world. At some point you end up seeing those things in a place like Urban Outfitters .. ect..

You either like things like this and Droog and Hayon and Studio Job or you hate it. Just like someone likes or hates Nike’s new shoe design or Herman Millers new office cubical designs. There is two types of conversations going on in design, and I think they both matter.

“# emil Says:
October 8th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

I’ll put a rock in my room and will tell that it is a chair :D :D
Am I a designer?? Or not?”

It’s already been done … sorry Emil……..
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/09/new-products-by-max-lamb/

]]> By: DCP http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/comment-page-1/#comment-186401 DCP Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:57:04 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/#comment-186401 another proof that recycling and ecology is just TOO hot these days, it justifies anything... YES, recycling is a GOOD thing, but don't use it as a shelter for any stupid design, we've seen so much better than this... another proof that recycling and ecology is just TOO hot these days, it justifies anything… YES, recycling is a GOOD thing, but don’t use it as a shelter for any stupid design, we’ve seen so much better than this…

]]> By: LOW http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/comment-page-1/#comment-186366 LOW Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:53:11 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/#comment-186366 meh... I just dont get it meh… I just dont get it

]]> By: Will http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/comment-page-1/#comment-186334 Will Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:54:03 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/another-chair-by-karen-ryan/#comment-186334 WTF WTF

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