Comments on: Glacier by Brodie Neill at SuperDesign

By: YAHEBA

YAHEBA — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:34:01 +0000

Brodie is a designer of significant originality. The pursuit of complexity has become an end in its self. It is the design route to accolades and financial rewards. The Cinderella table is the design that kicked this pursuit of complexity into high gear with a sale of one table for $284,000.00 to Brad Pitt. The magazines, museums and galleries go into a feeding frenzy to cover these designs and their designers.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:20:39 +0000

If design wants to be art then it certainly needs to provide more food for thought than how long it took to make it. A chair made from fresh cow manure would probably take just as long to stiffen but be all the more interesting to experience (and ponder upon). This one is just beautiful and banal.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:52:14 +0000

Yeah. But design IS NOT Fashion. Inefficiency shouldn't be the appeal of a piece of furniture.
Now whoever that buys it, he will have to tell everyone that the piece was let to cold for 80 days and blah, blah blah…
Is not that is only value?? time spent to make it?

By: miasmah

miasmah — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:20:52 +0000

this has no depth at all. i still think its funny how people use all these elaborate processes and materials and then extend it so so so far and produce…. a chair. mind bending contribution to existence.

By: amsam

amsam — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:54:11 +0000

Griping about the weight and inefficiency of a piece of luxury furniture is like griping that a Chanel handbag uses leathers that are hard to find. That's the WHOLE POINT.