Trillusion exhibit explores the synthesis between furniture and graphics blurs the boundaries between reality and illusion. Surface becomes space. Space becomes surface.
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Making of The Throne - Part II
Leather samples...check! Paint samples...check! Chair...check! Let the remix begin!
Finally, I have the chair needed to bring this vision to a reality. The throne is on its way! Check out Making of The Throne Part I to get caught up on my documentation of the journey to rescue an old piece of furniture and turn it into an one of a kind piece art work! Stay tuned for Part III. In the meantime, check out the photos above for the chair which is now sitting in my garage, and see below for the range of possibilities to come.
Getty Works with Ice Cube To Celebrate Eames
I've blogged on several occasions about Ice Cube receiving a degree in architectural drafting prior to NWA's success. He has continued to show his love and affection for the profession in a variety of ways, including his involvement Getty, as they released a celebration of Charles and Ray Eames. Below is the recreation of the Classic Eames shot in the extremely rare DAT-1 chair created by Eames in 1953. See my previous post "Ice Cube Celebrates the Eames" for a video tour of South Central LA and Ice Cube's reflection on Eames in a style that only Cube can pull off!
Read MoreStefan Zwicky - LeCorbusier's Hood Lounge Chair?
Artist Stefan Zwicky created a replica of LeCorbusier's chair in a brutalists' fashion. Sleek stainless steel supports have been replaced with thick gauged structural rebar and the once comfortable leather seating now precast concrete. When I view this artist representation, I am immediately called to compare the philosophy behind it's interpretation to that of the architectural interpretations of LeCorbusier's Plan for Paris as it was implemented in the South Bronx in such a brutal way.
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Rag Chair - Tejo Remy
Here is an example of material reuse which I always admired, since I first laid eyes on it. You remember the most popular clothing style for the unlucky second, third and even worst for the fourth child, "hand me downs"? "The Rag Chair is designed by Dutch designer Tejo Remy for Droog. Remy creates these one of a kind furniture pieces as individuals send in their old clothes which he then crafts a chair which is held together by black metal straps. Although the "hand me down" clothing line was free to anyone with an older brother or sister and a financially strapped family, the Rag Chair is not for anyone with financial woes nor is it for the frugal at heart. The Rag Chair has a price tag of $3,500 and has a manufacturing time of 8 to 12 weeks.
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All Gold Everything - The Relationship of Modern Furniture and Hip Hop - Part 1
The renderings of modified popular furniture pieces were created by me, from right to left you have, LeCorbusier's Arm Chair, Arne Jacobsen's Swan Chair, Charles and Ray Eames' Lounge Chair and the "Watch The Throne Chair" by BrandNU. Check out my "Making of The Throne" blog series to follow the design and fabrication of the Throne Chair.
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Breakdancing Meets Architecture - Part II
Can furniture be inspired by the contortions of break dancers? Even when contorted, breakers are able to maintain a sense of structural stability.This furniture presents a frame which has the ability to flex into positions inspired by break dancers.
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Famous Eames Chair - Meets Cam'Ron
Artist David Pompa introduces one of the most famous pieces of furniture to the hip hop culture. I am unsure if this is still a chair or if its solely wheel chair now? Which ever one it is, I would not mind taking a seat, I'm sure Cam'ron would love it too!
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Eames Chair Meets Hip Hop "Eames Hotrod Boombox"
Mikal Hameed is a Brooklyn-based artist and designer who is constantly finding new corners of America's creative culture to explore. After starting out in music and theater, he shifted his efforts to visual arts and production design, all of which inform his latest efforts as a craftsman and maker.
I recently came across his "Eames Hotrod Boombox"—a refurbished and reimagined Eames lounge chair—at Brooklyn's Dijital Fix and I was fascinated by the notion of "remixing" an iconic design object, especially since it incorporated another vintage reference point in the turntable. Meanwhile, the allusion to the boombox is itself a reference to mixing and sampling music, and it so happens that the "Eames Hotrod Boombox" was featured as the album art for a compilation album called Verve Remixed 4. Although the project dates back to 2008, the video is certainly worth a minute of your time; New York-based readers can see it in person at Dijital Fix in Williamsburg, just a couple short blocks from the Bedford Avenue stop on the L.
The Making of The Throne - Part 1
“The essence of hip hop truly is the transformation of existing objects and forms.” - KRS-One
This series of blogs will chronicle the design and production process of turning an old furniture piece into a work of art.
Part 1
A number of different materials schemes were reviewed, including leather upholstery, Louis Vuitton prints, and cow hides, combined with various car paints with metallic flakes for the intricate chair frame.
Pharrell Phurniture
In Collaboration with designer Domeau & Peres, Pharrell tries his hand in creating couture furniture for a gallery show in Paris.
I wish I was able to get in contact with Pharrell to show him some of my “BrandNU” custom and couture furniture designs! That would have been an assume meeting!
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Hip Hop Mogul - Pharrell designs new furniture