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Yarra Chair by Raluca Visinescu |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
RV: The idea is to make a stable, stiff, functional and as beautiful as possible form of a chair out of a single piece of plan material, by making cuts and bending it.
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
RV: Achieving a form as "fluid" as possible, with no sharp angles.
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
RV: Producing it... or letting someone produce it, better said; somehow looking forward to this process as a challenge in itself, in the same way as constructing architecture projects: they might suffer changes during the site works, but as long as ideas survive I embrace changes.
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
RV: From the moment of decision of trying to make a chair design out of one piece of folding material until the completion of "Yarra"'s shape, the process took around 3 months and tens of scale models built. However, the type of research continued further, resulting in several other designs, significantly different from "Yarra", yet within the same principle.
FS: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
RV: I am an architect and my commissions so far have been buildings, interior design (actually only few) or landscape design. This design came as an aim to challenge myself into designing a bit different: different scale, type of restrictions, etc.
FS: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
RV: I plan to sell or lease the production rights.
FS: What made you design this particular type of work?
RV: The pleasure of investigating in producing form and volume.
FS: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
RV: Too many to count.... Definitely I find very inspiring the works and designs of Modernist Architects such as Charles and Ray Eames, Arne Jacobsen, Antonio Bonnet-Castellana and many others.
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
RV: Hopefully it won't be too expensive to produce it. Usually my favorite clients (thinking of architectural commissions I have for private house/investments) are from the young or not so young urban professionals, which in the Romanian social spectrum doesn't mean rich people...
FS: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
RV: Most of the similar designs use metal legs to hold the seating. This was one challenge I put myself into when designing it: building it completely from the same continuous material.
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
RV: "Yarra" is the name of a river; I used river-names for the the entire series of this design concept (folded material) because of the flow-like resulted and desired shapes.
FS: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
RV: The most classical method possible: making models.
FS: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
RV: I don't know... I really regard it as simple, as a play...
FS: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
RV: Only by myself and only with architect's advice around (especially Corina Croitoru's for this design).
FS: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
RV: Its production would require some technology.
FS: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
RV: Nothing special: establishing my challenge, reading and researching in the object design history (more than the usual architectural training offers), my own experiments with materials.
FS: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
RV: I suppose they didn't come yet, I haven't produced the design so far.
FS: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
RV: Because of thinking to "build" it, I thought of this would as an opportunity to promote it.
FS: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?
RV: This is a very different kind of work than the architecture projects I usually do in the very direct working with material: both in achieving form directly from manipulating the material and in the focus on 1:1 scale where sizes less than 1 millimeter could dramatically change form.
FS: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?
RV: No. Thank you for the good questions.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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