Blast by Guy Mishaly
An explosion created these stools by Israeli designer Guy Mishaly.
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Each Blast stool is made by detonating a charge inside a steel blank, ripping legs out of the sides so that every one is unique.
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No material is lost in the explosion and each stool has the same weight before and after detonation.
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Mishaly developed the project while studying at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.
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Photography is by Oded Antman.
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The information below is from Guy Mishaly:
Blast - stools created by explosion
Industries develop in different regions around a quarry or readily available raw materials. The sphere of destruction is so developed in Israel that it can almost be considered a local “raw material” around which various industries and tremendous knowledge have developed.
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Blast is a project in which I use this “raw material” but create objects that are disconnected from the immediate associative context and embody a new interpretation of familiar ground, while taking the explosive element and using it as a tool.
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The objects start out as geometric shapes made of metal sheets that are webbed with explosive material. The explosion changes the generic shape into an object identified as having a unique character, and the effects of the explosion will always yield different objects.
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The enter point to this project was how to navigate energy; creating by manipulating energy that is naturally used to harm and destroy.
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Another goal was to invent a system that in the same way of use will always provide different results.
30 x 30 x 50 cm