Design classic: the Vegetal chair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
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Design classic: the Vegetal chair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
from Picture Perfect: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec at Weil am Rhein's Vitra Design Museum by Malgorzata Stankiewicz
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chair sketches Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
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- The work of the German product designer Konstantin Grcic often looks clumsy, even ugly, at first sight, but the longer you look at it, the more beguiling it becomes, as you sense the underlying logic of its blunt edges and awkward shapes.
from Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn
Berkeley architecture professor Galen Cranz wrote a book called The Chair: Rethinking Body, Culture and Design. (You could walk to the library to pick it up!) It is a great, thorough history of the structure of the chair, the role the class system has had on chair design, and the impact sitting has had on the body.
from Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says by Katy Bowman
- “This is what I learned from Italian designers: the wish for a better world in mass production, and the wish for a world of diversity from craft, and how to find the treasure in all of this.” – Ronan Bouroullec
from A Discreet Charm: The first family of French product design on extracting elegance from efficiency
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