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@ richard d.
who determines which form is pleasing?
I don’t buy the subtlety and nuance as sufficient explanation. Implicit in that arguement is a kind of intellectual blackmail which tries to suggest that if one finds this chair merely inoffensive or too aesthetically passive, then its because one lacks appreciation.
I’m a design student and I know what it is I want to achieve, and no-one has a right to make declarations about what design should or shouldn’t be.
all those gushing over the concept of simplicity whilst denigrating designs with more flourish – you protest too much. I get sick of designers making sacred pronouncements asserting that design ‘should’ be about this or that.
This chair isn’t particularly beautiful. Its actually just about aesthetically neutral. I think the reason some designers convince themselves that ‘simple’ is an ideal or absolute, is because it makes their own modest aspirations more easily attainable – I don’t think they have much confidence in their imagination. Complexity and flourish are much harder to achieve than simplicity and unobtrusiveness.
quiet, simple, beautiful
You are right, it is a gorgeous chair and crafty use of wood. I notice a slight angle in the back which may just save it from being terribly uncomfortable as the traditional dutch ladderbacks are. They must have been a very upright lot, those old dutch people.
Nice work.
@j, no it is definitely not! it is gorgeous. the beauty of industrial design is very frequently in the nuances of lines and proportions. look at how thin the seat and back of this chair are, or at the way that the backrest curves deeply inward in the center, and then wraps around the back posts. and this is WOOD that we are talking about!
this chair is really beautiful, with a subtle, functional, pleasing form… exactly what design should be about, instead of products vying to be the next ostentatious supertrend.
well done, richard hutten.
a chair…. thats it