some random quotes I scribbled:

“flavor of our studio…”

“…age gracefully…”

“chair is ‘real’ furniture”

“we surround ourselves with images to look at”

“…the quality of an edge…”

“it radiates something”

“we had to map out the recipe for each table”

“…and then, on to the engineering…”

Although I really appreciate their work – especially the “Lanterne Marine” (above) – for what they are, it seems like sometimes it took a little too much effort to figure out and to make exactly what they had in mind. I have to admit that the ridiculousness of the process they went through to make the “iris tables” (below) is what made the tables interesting for me, but it’s still hard to justify the tables’ existence. The tables are made from very precisely machined aluminum pieces which then individually got anodized to get the different colors and then put together carefully to create the full circle.

Could they have been designed in any other way (maybe with a different material or using a different process) and still have the same effect? I might be undermining the tables with this question, and I don’t mean to do that. It’s just something I could not help but think about.

I am fairly familiar with Konstantin Grcic’s work even though I had no idea how to pronounce his last name. I think apart from the work that was being displayed I really enjoyed the “presentation”. The way the two dimensional materials such as sketches, process pictures and the inspirations were presented on the walls and on the floorboards along the walls reminded me of a studio desk setup (see the post below). I recommend everyone to go see it before January 24th. You can even sit on all the chairs to test them out in the middle “chilling” area.

Side Story: My hair was still damp when I left the hairdresser ($14 haircuts at Aveda Institute) and my curls froze to the point that I could break them! It was pretty cool.