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Myrkr Chair by WORD
Los Angeles designer Christopher Warren of WORD has created a collection of chairs made of plywood grids for an exhibition of artists' books.
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Called Myrkr Chair (meaning 'darkness'), each piece is made of a single sheet of 12mm plywood, laser-cut and assembled with dowels.
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The chairs are dyed black and lacquered.
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The furniture formed part of an exhibition called The Page at the Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University in California last month.
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Photographs are by Christopher Warren, Mark Bittoni and Andrew Liang.
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Here's some text from Christopher Warren:
Myrkr Chair by WORD
Old Norse for "darkness", Myrkr is conceived of light and shadow.
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Its design answers the modern call for material efficiency and the utilization of technology; however, the common contemporary desires for thinness and gloss have been replaced by volume and subtlety.
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"Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides." - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
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For Myrkr, modern fabrication techniques have been combined with traditional assembly methods.
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The lounge chair has no metal connections, but rather is made from a single laser-cut sheet of 12mm plywood and 144 dowels.
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It has been dipped in black aniline dye and finished with lacquer.
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Myrkr is light, very comfortable, and surprisingly stable.
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