As a furniture designer, I find this kind of crap infuriating. Libeskind, of whom I'm no fan, designs a 'secret' $12,000 chair for his renovation of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto:
Libeskind describes it thusly: "Imagine you cut out a quarter of a cube at the corner. Then you use what is revealed through that cut as the bottom of the chair. Then the chair, shaped in a symmetrical way, rises in an unusual angle. And it rotates."
Lib pulled a Wright as far as I'm concerned.....Architects do not always make great furniture designers....then there is Mac the Knife....best ever Architect in designing furniture.
A career based on the cube. And we (meaning the public at large) have bought it hook, line, and sinker. Sort of. I mean, if these things mattered even just a little bit to anybody other than Libeskind and his sycophants.
i think that uncomfortable is the understatement of the year... how the hell do you even sit on it? the stainless will be cold, hard, and potentially sharp... and depending on the fabric of ones pants i can see people just sliding right off when the sit down and banging their head on a sharp corner...
"The contemporary, multi-faceted Spirit House Chair is architect Daniel Libeskind’s first foray into the world of furniture. The chair is constructed entirely of 14 gauge stainless steel with a brushed finish and weighs 180 lbs. It is designed to be oriented in five different positions and can be used as a side-table. Each chair takes 40 hours of labour to complete. As a special finishing touch, each chair will have Libeskind’s signature etched onto it."
i can't link to it to post it here, but here's a picture with someone sitting in it... it's much different than i thought from looking at the pix that mdler posted from the press release...
could we have some confirmation that it is in fact designed by libeskind???
oh look, here it is...
"RENOWNED ARCHITECT Daniel Libeskind, who designed the "Freedom Tower" that will eventually be built in lower Manhattan on the site of the fallen World Trade Towers, has tapped The Schimmel Piano Company of Braunschweig, Germany, to realize his design for a unique grand piano. Measuring nearly 18 feet long, with a curved lid and striking linear graphics, the instrument has been designed to occupy a place in the lobby area of the Freedom Tower."
Wow, look at that guy's boots sitting in the chair - he's been walking around the jobsite I guess. With the tie, and the glasses and all...super -cool.
When I was in high school, during the fashion-tragic New Wave era, I would decorate sleeveless T-shirts with lines of black electrical tape. That piano reminds me of my foolish youth.
Good point, Steven. It says it was designed for the Freedom Tower. But the 80s are back, right? Look at all the metallic leather ballet shoes running around.
Libeskind's $12,000 chair
As a furniture designer, I find this kind of crap infuriating. Libeskind, of whom I'm no fan, designs a 'secret' $12,000 chair for his renovation of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto:
http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/211784
Libeskind describes it thusly: "Imagine you cut out a quarter of a cube at the corner. Then you use what is revealed through that cut as the bottom of the chair. Then the chair, shaped in a symmetrical way, rises in an unusual angle. And it rotates."
And it rotates, people! ROTATES!
it will probably suck as much as his building do
if im gonna drom 12k on a chair...
'drop'...maybe I should spend the 12k on spelling lessons
so it rotates.
since chair rises in an unusual angle, it will be uncomfortable?
i wonder how much is mies' chair worth
mdler beat me to it...
Do you think Libeskind will whine and moan until someone buys it?
for 12k, that chair best come with one hell of a lap dance
hi garpike;)
pix plz?
In the article linked above, it mentions that pics will probably be revealed later this afternoon.
Lib pulled a Wright as far as I'm concerned.....Architects do not always make great furniture designers....then there is Mac the Knife....best ever Architect in designing furniture.
Would you rather have a David Childs chair?
it'll prolly make my guts itch.
namby, it's still a secret. But imagine a crappy cube, with a crappy corner cut out and used as the base. It rotates... in a crappy way.
i would pay 12 thousand dollars for a lawn chair if namby was sittin in it.
vado
no flirting on Archinect....
I believe flirtting wasn'ty the issue, mister. It was hijacking... oops, oh wait. That chair's gonna suck!
bdf....I would less like a pile created by mr. childs!
the truth is not flirting. does this chair have the optional eyegouge feature?
Im gonna buy the $20 version at IKEA
it rotates
Where'd you get those? It looks painful.
from the Royal Ontario Museum website....it rotates, for Christ's sake
It's actually worse than I expected.
for $12k, it should at least be filled with coccaine
LOL! It's almost worse than the building it is going into. Almost.
It looks like it's saying
I shoulda had a Gehry...
function? comfort? a lebi cares not for these things
It seriously IS much worse than I'd expected.
A career based on the cube. And we (meaning the public at large) have bought it hook, line, and sinker. Sort of. I mean, if these things mattered even just a little bit to anybody other than Libeskind and his sycophants.
my chair just rotated.
When is Childs gonna get the FDNY and NYPD to complain about the chair being unsafe?
i cant decie if it's better or worse than his piano (which just remindes me of piano ties)
when a chair become so expansive that cannot reach the common household, it becomes a sculpture/art object... not much to do with architecture.
wow, that "chair" that looks like the terd a co-worker forgot to flush this morning... only more bling.
or a dreidel
dude, the guy has always been a shitty architect
i disagree his reading, writing, memory machine project was some intense shit. i also like the berlin holocaust museum.
That piano. Man, oh man.
Seriously? He designed that?
i think that uncomfortable is the understatement of the year... how the hell do you even sit on it? the stainless will be cold, hard, and potentially sharp... and depending on the fabric of ones pants i can see people just sliding right off when the sit down and banging their head on a sharp corner...
"The contemporary, multi-faceted Spirit House Chair is architect Daniel Libeskind’s first foray into the world of furniture. The chair is constructed entirely of 14 gauge stainless steel with a brushed finish and weighs 180 lbs. It is designed to be oriented in five different positions and can be used as a side-table. Each chair takes 40 hours of labour to complete. As a special finishing touch, each chair will have Libeskind’s signature etched onto it."
from the press release...
i can't link to it to post it here, but here's a picture with someone sitting in it... it's much different than i thought from looking at the pix that mdler posted from the press release...
architphil, the caption there says it all:
"ROM director William Thorsell pronounced the chair surprisingly comfortable, all things considered."
I think we need to make fun of that piano some more.
i agree n_
could we have some confirmation that it is in fact designed by libeskind???
oh look, here it is...
"RENOWNED ARCHITECT Daniel Libeskind, who designed the "Freedom Tower" that will eventually be built in lower Manhattan on the site of the fallen World Trade Towers, has tapped The Schimmel Piano Company of Braunschweig, Germany, to realize his design for a unique grand piano. Measuring nearly 18 feet long, with a curved lid and striking linear graphics, the instrument has been designed to occupy a place in the lobby area of the Freedom Tower."
Wow, look at that guy's boots sitting in the chair - he's been walking around the jobsite I guess. With the tie, and the glasses and all...super -cool.
The building? Hideous. The chair, less so.
The piano has "striking linear graphics".
When I was in high school, during the fashion-tragic New Wave era, I would decorate sleeveless T-shirts with lines of black electrical tape. That piano reminds me of my foolish youth.
"Whoomp, chair it is"
i'll give him a break if we learn that the piano was done in '86. if it was after '90, we need to start slinging poo.
Good point, Steven. It says it was designed for the Freedom Tower. But the 80s are back, right? Look at all the metallic leather ballet shoes running around.
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