This was my favourite piece of work from this years D&AD student awards. The brief, from Vitra, asked for “a sofa inspired by the new Vitra Edition collection that is unencumbered by commercial constraints and pushes the boundaries of innovative furniture design”.Kingsnorth says she was inspired by media coverage of obesity and Jenny Saville’s paintings to create One - “a sofa that has been devoured by its obese occupier”. “The flesh has spilled and encased the sofa… until the two have married into a new grotesque form,” she explains.
I think the chair form and the materials used work in a fantastic way which is appealing but also unappealing, it seems to be a contradiction of beauty and therefore is an innovative piece of design.
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