the latest celebrity cum designer: pharrell williams

the latest celebrity cum designer: pharrell williams



forget design/art, celebrity designers are taking over. the latest in a slew of celebrities cum designers is hip hop
producer pharrell williams. the ‘perspective’ chair is designed by williams in association with french producer
domeau-pérès. the chair is a simple shell with a cusion and four literal legs. the legs of the chair, are realistic
representations of a woman in the front and man at the back. the seat will come is a variety of colours but will be
limited to 4 chairs per colour. it will also be on show at galerie emmanuel perrotin in paris from october 21st to
january 10th.

http://www.pharrellwilliams.com
http://www.domeauperes.com
http://www.galerieperrotin.com
nate db
06.11.08  
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That make me think that money can't buy talent or intellingence. I predict that those kind of -wanabe- designer will be common in the next decade. We don't sell design anymore, we sell a name. This is really the product of our pop, cheap, bling bling, no background culture. Hey Pharrel, ask you this question : why do i do things? If the anwser is : because it's cool. Well go back to my first sentence.
Poetti   06.11.08
so pharrell wants to sit in the womans shoes? with a mans feet behind him, in that stance.... weird.
G   06.11.08
Its an insult to designers! To design! Show respect for design like any art form. If you want to do something valueable with your money support young designers and artists produce their own work. Fund the arts council set up workshops...
x   06.17.08
cheap pop
Graciela   06.17.08
he is not even that bad, in confront to the guys to my faculty who study design,too...
there you can see what design really is !!!
ignorrant people that invent bad concepts around even worse products!!!
mister mister   06.19.08
in the place where i come from, a lawyer can turn into a designer when he got bored with his high paid uninspired job, a banker is turning into a designer when he feels he saved up enough money from his 9-5 job to start a high end fully equipped design studio,
but a designer can not just merely turns into a lawyer when he needs extra cash.
sometimes, this makes me sick and tired to see that being a designer is just an alternative pleasure and no one really bother to understand how big is a challenge to be a real problem solving designer..
anyway, when do we think philipp starck goes to hollywood or ron arad sign up to play a role in a movie.. the closest a designer can get is to make props.. well, at least karim rashid is a DJ...
wondering   06.22.08

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