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"Rules and regulations are wasted on Joep van Lieshout," reads the Dutch artist's website. "Ever since becoming a professional artist in the 1980s, he has attacked the art world's conventions."
In this instance, van Lieshout's toying with a furniture design convention. Inspiration hit when he found and old La-Z-Boy on the street. "Intrigued by the chair's ugliness, he decided to take it back to his studio and see if it could be sculpted into something beautiful."
"Stripping it down to its bare essentials, Van Lieshout created a sculptural, lean, mean sitting machine."
It hurts my eyes to look at it. I desperately want to see it fully enclosed, but of course van Lieshout has only posted photos that force you to reckon with the guts, made uglier by their contrast with the clean lines of the chair, which promise to restore visual clarity if you would just close the damn thing and cover the sides.
Van Lieshout has succeeded in getting the chair into production, with a rather interesting name:
"Produced by Lensvelt, The Lazy Modernist is suitable for luxury offices and spas as well as residential and hospitality interiors."
Touché, van Lieshout.
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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This Modernist La-Z-Boy Chair is Horrifically Ugly
Not for sale to people with small pets or children.
I was just going to say if you like it buy it now before a lawsuit for mangled fingers/kids/pets comes out of this.
The enclosed base was not just for esthetics - it was for safety around pinch points as well.
Sort of looks like a Boeing Cockpit Seat. Gamer-Sim market?
Why does Core77 call this design ugly yet they say nothing about other much worse designs? Heck they even support some obviously bad or false designs. Are you impartial or not? Why call out some and not others?
Its nice... but it looks half baked. I'd gone with a chrome planted
instead of black powder coated. The metallic springs in the sea of black
is annoying. Why are there so many unused holes?
Im guessing that is where the lower fabric panels would have attached.
this is great, and the world should not revolve around stupid & ugly pets and/or children.
Gorgeous