It seems there is nothing British design wonderboy Thomas
Heatherwick cannot do. While his large-scale commissions are out-of-pocket to most
private individuals, his “smaller” designs are slightly more accessible and equally imaginative, radical and
stellar.
The Spun chair,
which reminds me of a toy top, is brilliant and though it may not look awfully
comfortable, his studio assures me it was only brought to market after
extensive research and experimentation.
Imagine an ergonomic chair whose seat can also be the back support and
vice versa? FUN.
His Plank stool or
side table is equally incredible. From 1
plank of wood, Heatherwick made it possible to make a furniture piece. Just fold and twist and voila! It’s very easy to
overlook the complex engineering that went into this, but I swear, it was not
the result of a high school science project!
The beautiful public commissions are both artistic and
functional. Look at the gorg new redesign of the iconic London double-decker
bus; his imaginative design for the London 2012 Olympic cauldron; the wonderfully
wavy staircase of the Longchamp store in SoHo, NY and his British Pavilion for
the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.
WOWzer!
image credits: Heatherwick Studio, London (Spun Chair –
Magis; Susan-Smart | Plank – Steve Speller | Olympic cauldron – Getty Images | Longchamp
Store, SoHo, New York – Nikolas-Koenig | UK Pavilion, Shanghai – Iwan Baan)
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Thank you for stopping by and reading my feature today. I
love what I do as an interior designer and art advisor, and it’s my hope that
through these blog posts I’m enriching and heightening your aesthetic sensibility
towards art, design and fabulous interiors in some way ~ Richard Rabel (a.k.a. the modern sybarite)
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