FRAME CHAIR
Personal Project
This chair is crafted to sit one, but it is not designed only to just reect a literal idea of “frameworks”, and as a product from the mind of one party (the designer), to the end-user (the person sitting). Brought into focus, is the position of an oft-neglected third party: A third who is neither the designer nor the person sitting, but the viewer, the observer who is looking at the chair.
In the simple act of reducing, and also, hybridising the forms of a chair and an art frame, further multifarious levels of questioning, relevant to both design and the viewing of art, can be provoked: Is it a chair, or a picture frame, or even sculpture? Or is it all three, depending from which point of view one is seeing it from? Where, when, and how is the act of “viewing” and “observing”, and the position of the third party viewer/observer, valued in art, valued in the practice of design?
