Prototypes: More Beautant Frames

Prototypes: Process photo's

getting an average from an irregular line, metal - wood brackets from reformed metal, chiseling to the mm, marking out material and handstitching the upholstery.

Prototypes: Process photo's

Prototypes: waiting to be upholstered

process note: sew into hessian the rippelled effect coming out from the back laft corner to go the "ghosted chair" on the right. sew in by cutting alternate strips of william morris pattern and cammo.

Prototype: Beware the military-industrial complex...

The "bosses" chair, re-upholstered with cammo. This works, as a mix of symbols of hierarchy and discipline, of blending in

and patterns - structurial hierarchy and disciplined, departmental, co-ordinated and specific.
MIC Millitary-Industrial Chair

Prototype: Beautant - Beautiful Freaks - Slinky Leg

Distinguishing features and hidden beauty, appearences and discovery. A quirky but technically well constructed form draws the eye to the one odd leg which reveals the added detail to the underside of the chair reflected in the display surface.



















the things that live under the chair, chewing gum, scribbles and screws

Prototypes: Two working prototypes

Working prototypes exploring the potential in designs created to either physically/spatially cut the individual sitter off from the immediate environment using the encompassing arms and the kissing chair that looks as though it will be good to entwine the legs of the two sitters to add to the visual clutter of the many chair legs.

Prototype: Circular comfy seat

The next step from the circular seat prototype, upholstered and ready go on to final prototype stage

Prototype: Fat leg

Added to previous protoype entry

put arc wood from fold up chair as back, loop paper from arm to arm and behind either side of the wooden arc and fix sprung seat with red illustrations on black. Something about cycles that makes you lie down as you read it. Need a fat legged recliner really! the text could go right out of site forcing the user to get out of the seat and the end should reflect that change of position / stand point / view...

Prototype: Mirror chair

Prototype: Slinky leg

not a prayer - guantanemo

use high strength magnets in guantanemo prayer stools to fit tetris bits together...

Prototype: Fat leg chairs

One of the fat legged chairs broke around the backrest so this will lead to a new stage of development where at each stage the overweighted mend will make the weak parts give elsewhere.

Prototype: Beautiful Freaks - Oversized Legs

Consistant with the mainstream media's fascination with those labelled freaks (plastic surgery nightmares - michael jackson, lesley ash, easily identifiable villians - abu hamsa, and heroes - Jed, youtube "stars" (take your pick), oversized glamour models and porn stars, guiness book entries (see tallest, heaviest, longest appendage etc) etc etc etc)

this project takes the weakness of the object (where it has broken) and overcompensates for its deficiencies, or highlights its difference.

Supporters of Darwin would argue that without natural slection or without mutations evolution would not have occured. Social Darwinianists tried to turn this on its head and act as the forceful hand of god through implementing nature on natures behalf, exterminating the "weak" those who in different environments evoke the better sympathetic empathic altruistic tendancies from society.

Have we increasingly encouraged ourselves to be fascinated by difference. When difference distinguishes something we praise it and call it progress or unique, maybe we express disgust because of perceived grotesqueness or mutations, these can be translated into strengths or weaknesses.

The white chair broke at its weak point around the back support. I thought it would be interesting to start a process of replacing every breakage with an oversized component. This could elaborate into experiments with materials and structures to effect significant structural and visual strengths and weaknesses that can be manipulated to produce a range of prototypes further exploring these possibilities.

Prototype: Ghosted Chair

This frame holds an old wooden chair profile in a black square tubular steel office chair frame. The back rest upright going into the leg is a sructural strength that both structures share, the black frame could be seen as an evolution from wooden construction. A part of its evolution as an object, a member of a family tree, a piece that has evolved from constant improvements and alterations natural and intended interventions to form and processes, all are still present in its construction. Chairs as footprints of their owners, empty chairs as echos of people, traces of their previous incarnations. There are posibilites for more abstract interpretations also.

There is potential in experimenting with fabrics and upholstery, printing and illustrations.

This idea evolved from the Beautiful freaks prototypes using left over chair parts to try and emphasise a new aspect of the form, the back leg up into the backrest.

Prototype: Kissing chair - warped up

I found the beginnings of this chair as two frames intertwined locked together inseparable without wrenching apart. Although it has resulted in looking like a kissing chair, it suggests two users with two back rests, that was not the intention. Although it would be appropriate to investigate its potential as a kissing chair. The positioning of the users would involve interlocking legs which would add to the visual clutter of the users/chairs legs.