DESIGN NAME: Cubic
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Multifunctional chair
INSPIRATION: I have designed a big light pot before. And I have made some chairs, too.
Now I wanted to put this two elements together. Something what I have not seen before.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Armchair where arm parts can be changed to the light. I made it other way around. Usually furnitured are lighted. Now chairgives a light around.
Parts for arms are not full lenght. so you have a placce for a drink. And it is easy even for older persons to rise up from a chair.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Chair is suitable for home to opera houses. Todays led technic gives a lot of possibilities. You can Put light on by manual way or light can come on when uou walk closer of a chair.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Cubic is reborn this year 2014 when I realised to add a light to the chair. I made a arm part to changeble to light part. It will be a ones in a life time feeling when it is getting darken, you walk closer of a chair and lights comes automaticly on. Getting bbrighter slowly.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Furniture Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Materials are metal frame, metal net, leather opal plastic and LED light. and like a point top of i there are small parts of a wood where to keep by your hands
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Cubic belongs to a large collection: Helsinki Opera Collection. 12 cm is a measurement which can be found for all models. Dimensions are 879 x 730 x 600mm. Bottom of a chair is a signature of a designer date and number of a chair
TAGS: A Plain, B, Clean C, Something surprisingly D, Less is more E, Collection
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: How to compine light to the chair. I had to to study a light and a thecnology. There are different colors of a light. I had to find a right color to my case. Living in north of europe a colour of a liht could be different in south of europe. Technics and A possibilities of lamps and warm of a lamps are importants, too.
CHALLENGE: When I first made a furniturecollection it took several years to give a new life, to re born a chair. This case learnt to me that ther is not a one right way to do it. and you can allways try to make it better and better
ADDED DATE: 2014-09-22 14:02:36
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IMAGE CREDITS: Images photographer Teemu Töyrylä Finland
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