We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Grigorii Gorkovenko about their original and creative Chair design work. Grigorii Gorkovenko is an award-winning industrial designer, that makes our world a better place with their original chair works.
Grigorii Gorkovenko ("GG") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Bubble Chair. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
GG : Creating a resonance of visual image and actual implementation. The goal was to create soft, airy forms, but to show them through a completely different, seemingly unsuitable, yet alive and flexible material.
GG : To combine the incompatible, to unite the cold and the hot. The goal was to create a visually soft chair out of a hard material, to give the cold metal an airy, ethereal shape. We argued for a long time about what material BUBBLE would be made of, and we settled on aluminum, because this metal has plasticity, relatively light weight, the right moderately ridged satined texture, which properly conveys the properties of materials and handmade features.
GG : We want to present it at an international exhibition and then in a gallery. It was important for me to get feedback on the project in such a prestigious competition as the A'DESIGN Award.
GG : BUBBLE itself was conceived in my head very quickly. But when my team and I began to think about the process of implementation, then it really started getting interesting; we had to work both on the image and the choice of material for its exact implementation simultaneously.
GG : It was an emotion that I translated into a drawing, and the drawing turned into an object. In the process of implementing it, the emotion only got deeper.
GG : This is a unique object that will not go into mass production; we will produce it piece by piece in our own factory.
GG : The desire to work with brutal and rough material in large volumes and experience its effect on human perception.
GG : It was a great surprise to me that after the presentation of the Bubble, a great many people compared it to Jeff Koons, it was a great surprise and an honor for me.
GG : A sophisticated man, the owner of a large house with a voluminous living room with space allocated for an unconventional object d'art.
GG : As a rule, this kind of design and forms are usually constructed out of more pliable and soft materials, but we wanted to play with contrasts, so we chose metal.
GG : Bubble represents something airy, soft, plush and flexible.
GG : We combined a sketch design with the work of foundry masters and product design engineers who helped bring the idea to life.
GG : Despite its appearance, it is a hand-made product, and it took craftsmen a year to produce it.
GG : Foundry masters Product design engineers
GG : A strange classic foundry technology was used. Thus paying tribute to tradition in a new modern interpretation.
GG : Every designer in the process of creation is always on the lookout for shapes and processes a huge amount of information; only through constant search you can come up with the perfect shape for you.
GG : The big challenge for us in the production of the chair was the design features of the object and their influence on the casting technology.
GG : I felt this object was worthy of attention and wanted to get feedback from the global design community.
GG : I realized that it is possible to look at the everyday perception of the material from a different angle, and to influence people's impressions and emotions.
GG : It's important to understand and know who to share your creativity and ideas with in order to be heard and seen, such as participating in A'design award competition.
