Comments on: Lard Series by Commonwealth http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/lard-series-by-commonwealth/ architecture and design magazine Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:21:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Doug montgomery http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/lard-series-by-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-511637 Doug montgomery Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:53:06 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/lard-series-by-commonwealth/#comment-511637 If furniture is just about functionality, then one chair design would suffice for eternity. I hate the functionalist ideology. It's boring. Beauty is a very human need - these fulfill that requirement for me. Functionalism and the attempt by it's advocates to indoctrinate, strikes me as a little misanthropic and presumptuous. I'm a design student and many of the tutors try to infect the students with their bitterness. If furniture is just about functionality, then one chair design would suffice for eternity. I hate the functionalist ideology. It’s boring. Beauty is a very human need – these fulfill that requirement for me. Functionalism and the attempt by it’s advocates to indoctrinate, strikes me as a little misanthropic and presumptuous. I’m a design student and many of the tutors try to infect the students with their bitterness.

]]> By: Stefan, Berlin http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/lard-series-by-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-245013 Stefan, Berlin Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:10:24 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/lard-series-by-commonwealth/#comment-245013 Those drawings are very strong. Everything looks well crafted, which is something that I really respect. I appreciate a studio that isn't showing mere renderings. I wish I could see more of the furniture in an house or apartment though, so I could see it in use. I'm always sort of jealous in my own little way of designers who are good with new technologies and drawing tools. I think it is too hard for me to learn this stuff now. But its exciting to see this new way of design develop by up and coming designers. Also, I think it is a real craft to learn. Those drawings are very strong. Everything looks well crafted, which is something that I really respect. I appreciate a studio that isn’t showing mere renderings. I wish I could see more of the furniture in an house or apartment though, so I could see it in use.

I’m always sort of jealous in my own little way of designers who are good with new technologies and drawing tools. I think it is too hard for me to learn this stuff now. But its exciting to see this new way of design develop by up and coming designers. Also, I think it is a real craft to learn.

]]> By: Elixa http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/lard-series-by-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-244843 Elixa Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:02:02 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/lard-series-by-commonwealth/#comment-244843 Dezeen readers can be such a cantankerous bunch of armchair crybabies! I think these pieces of furniture are pretty beautiful. I like that they are called ‘Lard’- because it makes me think of playing with the stuff with my mom who used to bake with it. Lard is squishy, and nourishing actually, and as the guy above pointed out- it is really a healthy ingredient. I think it’s a very romantic name. As to their functionality- they seem pretty basic and useful. I always want to have a table with long leaves underneath. Never enough space on our table at home. I like it. Dezeen readers can be such a cantankerous bunch of armchair crybabies!

I think these pieces of furniture are pretty beautiful. I like that they are called ‘Lard’- because it makes me think of playing with the stuff with my mom who used to bake with it. Lard is squishy, and nourishing actually, and as the guy above pointed out- it is really a healthy ingredient. I think it’s a very romantic name.

As to their functionality- they seem pretty basic and useful. I always want to have a table with long leaves underneath. Never enough space on our table at home. I like it.

]]> By: ba7ar http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/lard-series-by-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-243450 ba7ar Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:25:22 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/lard-series-by-commonwealth/#comment-243450 hard to clean hard to clean

]]> By: Drew Kime http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/lard-series-by-commonwealth/comment-page-1/#comment-241922 Drew Kime Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:15:31 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/lard-series-by-commonwealth/#comment-241922 Sorry for the tangent, but lard is not the nutritional evil we've been taught by ADM. If you're going to fry foods, lard is one of the healthiest things to fry it in. That doesn't make the "awesome semantic blubber cake of a text" (great phrase by the way) any less ridiculous. Sorry for the tangent, but lard is not the nutritional evil we’ve been taught by ADM. If you’re going to fry foods, lard is one of the healthiest things to fry it in.

That doesn’t make the “awesome semantic blubber cake of a text” (great phrase by the way) any less ridiculous.

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