Frank O Gehry

    Frank Owen Gehry was born in Toronto in 1929 and studied architecture at the University of California. A number of his works became tourist attraction buildings. His works are known to be one of the best from Contempory design. He was a very modernist designer and his style was mostly of deconstructivism. Famous designers aren’t good in just one field, and Gehry was also was famous for his furniture designs. The series of which the Wiggle Chair is part of is a collection of furnishings made out of corrugated cardboard.

    Above is an icon of modern design, the’ Wiggle Chair’ designed in 1972. It is a very famous design because it is very unique, both from the design of the shape and also from the material chosen. This chair is mostly famous because it is made out of cardboard. Strips in the form of the chair are cut and simply glued together to form the width of the chair. In the 1960s a trend for cost-efficient and lightweight materials led to experiments with using cardboard in furniture design.   The shape of the chair is just one simple continuous curved line. Experiments show that cardboard is very strong and this chair is very stable. The only disadvantage is that it cannot get wet, otherwise is starts to corrode. I think Gehry did a good job leaving the cardboard in its origin neutral colour- brown,because the shape itself is already very eye-catching. Ergonomic-wise it looks very comfortable because the seating shape is a bit curved. The design of the chair is very fun and would be a great stable piece in Contempory designed room. This is defiantly one of my personal favourite furniture pieces ever designed. 

    Another Frank Gehrys’ collection of furniture which is still being produced, is the Colour Cubes. They are a series of seating, benches and coffee tables made of UV-protected rotational-molded polyethylene. They are very cubic furniture with strong bright colours, red, yellow, green, blue, magenta. Just like the Wiggle Chair they look very fun, with the bright colours, they look like a bunch of flowers in a garden. I think they are a perfect set of furniture for outdoors and also for the indoors. They would make the garden very beautiful and colourful and the inside very bright and cool. Frank Gehry saturates his powerful forms with the magical energy of color. This idea of the design is very different from the Wiggle Chair, but still have similar elements like – original shape and fun Contempory style.

    I found this chair above, on the internet. It is a Contampory chair, designed this year (2013) by Michele Franzina. It is a reading chair, and as you can see it has a small stand were you can rest your book while reading. This idea is very helpful and useful. Just like the wiggle chair the chair is made out of just one continuous line. The makes the design very modernist and simple. The top of this chair is a lime green and like the Colour Cubes this will bright up a room. The cover of the chair is felt and is a bit flexibale which makes it comfortable to sit one. It is also lightweight which makes it easier to move around. 

    From all these three furniture pieces, the wiggle chair is still my favourite because I think it has the most unique idea, both from design ad material.

Bibliography:

Dave January 3013 http://www.contemporist.com/2013/01/21/aleaf-by-michele-franzina-and-venezia-homedesign/#more-64592

Stardust 2013 http://www.stardust.com/WIGGLECHAIR.html 

searched on the 13th December 2013