yesterday was the second review of our projects and i presented the 1:1 model of the chair. everything went really well, frédéric (instructor) and jörg boner (expert) found the chair very comfortable and the prinicple of konstruction/folding quite interesting. there was only one problem, and i knew it would come to this; when looking at the form of the chair with all its triangular surfaces one is directly reminded of konstantin grcic and his 'chair one'. during the process of making the form one part of me was saying that this form is too close to the design of grcic and one side was saying that the triangle is the best shape of this asymmetrical folded volume.
basically the concensus is: i need to rethink the shapes of the form and see where i can make changes to 'get the grcic out'. frédéric and jörg said that it wasn't bad that the form reminds one of grcic, but it would be much better when one can look at my chair and think of me, not grcic.
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…so true.
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