Comments on: Recession Chair by Tjep.

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:52:53 +0000

It is pure genius: this is really a statement in the best tradition of Dutch Design, as it should be.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:01:36 +0000

It (or any design) shouldn't need any explanation, and without it, it doesn't look to good

By: Brigita Kas

Brigita Kas — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:19:29 +0000

Dear Carsten,
If you've red this article, then you should know this chair is not related to any of selling/buying priorities. This is a conceptual expression. It musn't have a reliable function.
This is why I am saying we should stay open minded and focus on the idea and what authors wanted to say and how they realized it.
I would agree with the person who noticed earlier "If part of the frame was eroded by some chemical (food additive perhaps) it would have been a more coherent piece that comments a political situation of recession. The visual language here is too superficial without depth and as such it is not a piece of art."
But I wouldn't agree with you who can't accept the metaphorical language.

By: Luca

Luca — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:50:53 +0000

In my opinion this piece shows three possible ways for designers.
First way: if we agree considering all creative acts as "political" so designers must become really militant designing objects with a strong symbolic content, especially to the detriment of function.
Second way: stop designing for itself. That's enough. Do we really need another chair? After Breuer, Wegner, Ponti, Colombo and now Ikea?
Third way: re-start thinking. What it's really necessary in term of improving a positive change in your life without making worse mine and the future of our planet?
This chair would like to be "symbolic" but it is still prisoner of the discipline and so affected.

By: okd

okd — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:03:28 +0000

Should we tell Tjep. it's 2011 already?