Laughter works

Sense of humor in design

Passing the gallery

Material prepared: Marina Volkova

A photo: - from the archives of the press services

Magazine: N11 (133) 2008

Who said that the dresser should have four legs, that the carpet is a woven version of a flower meadow, and the chair is a seat, a back and sloping armrests? Designers have ridiculed these well-established principles.

Designers love to fool around. The tendency to fantasize sometimes brings them to paradoxical, a little absurd, but one hundred percent fun experiments. Someone, yielding to the temptation, creates one or two "clownish" subjects, and then returns to the fold of tradition. Someone, on the contrary, stays there on the laughter arena; moreover, it makes the subject carnival with its creative credo. And often these very risky win international contests, and their creations are happy to exhibit in museums.

Solidity and shocking, it would seem, are mutually exclusive phenomena. However, many reputable brands will not agree with this - along with classical things they produce insane and do not hesitate.

The Brazilians Campana and the omnipresent Philippe Starck, the stars of modern design, who decided to shake him up a little, make money on a sense of humor. The first created for the company Seat furniture from all kinds of garbage, and for my own pleasure - armchairs, resembling a dump of plush toys. The second was marked by a lamp-pistol and a juicer-mantis. They added Marcel Wanders, Fabio Novembre, Carlo Rampazzi and young Spanish designer Jaime Aion. Commode-centipedes, pokemon vases, horse-lamps, "tailed" chairs and honeycomb cabinets - by their parts. Contact us!

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