Furniture of the Future?
March 19th 2008 09:48
On a blog site with the rather curious name of The Composed Gentleman, I came across pictures of Furniture of the Future. These exhibits were entered in a competition organised by the Singapore Furniture Industries Council. The annual Furniture Design Award is held in conjunction with the International Furniture Fair Singapore/ASEAN Furniture Show at the Singapore Expo.
Okay, (you can see photos of the winning designs by clicking on the link alongside the title of this post) this furniture was exhibited in 2006, but what I find surprising is that instead of the designers thinking about the current state of the world, climate change and such, they seem to have gone for designs that really show nothing but a curious awkwardness in terms of practicality.
The winning exhibit is a ‘chair’ with the title Come Fly With Me. It has long wing-like features on either side of the person sitting, and is made out of what looks to be a plastic-type material. The man sitting on it seems chirpy enough, but I can’t believe that the chair would be comfortable for sitting in at length.
There’s a stool-like affair (it got a merit award) that has no back on it; sitting on this would be like taking your life in your hands. The egg-shaped coffee table looks lovely – it’s made of polished wood – but to have it in your house would mean you’d need a large room to accommodate it.
The starry night occasional chair, the spira table and the Lady M sofa, are all spectacularly ordinary, but still managed to win Merit awards. The Loop Couch/Desk (can’t it make up its mind what it is?), which comes at the
bottom of the list, has a large open space in the back. For sheer discomfort I can’t imagine anything worse.
Okay, (you can see photos of the winning designs by clicking on the link alongside the title of this post) this furniture was exhibited in 2006, but what I find surprising is that instead of the designers thinking about the current state of the world, climate change and such, they seem to have gone for designs that really show nothing but a curious awkwardness in terms of practicality.
The winning exhibit is a ‘chair’ with the title Come Fly With Me. It has long wing-like features on either side of the person sitting, and is made out of what looks to be a plastic-type material. The man sitting on it seems chirpy enough, but I can’t believe that the chair would be comfortable for sitting in at length.
There’s a stool-like affair (it got a merit award) that has no back on it; sitting on this would be like taking your life in your hands. The egg-shaped coffee table looks lovely – it’s made of polished wood – but to have it in your house would mean you’d need a large room to accommodate it.
The starry night occasional chair, the spira table and the Lady M sofa, are all spectacularly ordinary, but still managed to win Merit awards. The Loop Couch/Desk (can’t it make up its mind what it is?), which comes at the
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