We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Gerardo Ríos Altamirano about their original and creative Lounge Chair design work. Gerardo Ríos Altamirano is an award-winning industrial designer, that makes our world a better place with their original lounge chair works.
Gerardo Ríos Altamirano ("GRA") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Cosmic Lounge Chair. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
GRA : Inspired by the fashion current “atom punk”, this piece has the noble visage of the Victorian era chairs, while showing the angular and dynamic lines of the 60’s futuristic rockets. The vertices emulate the rear fenders of the 1959 cars, and its structure has no square angles, which gives it a very impressive dynamism that requires being the center of attention in any room.
GRA : In addition to the dynamic and sumptuous beauty of this chair, it is amazingly comfortable to sit in a relaxed position, which makes it ideal for a living room. It´s multilayer cushion with electric support allows a perfect fit to anyone.
GRA : Develop a signature design brand that can hold and commercialize this among other designs to the high end market.
GRA : This project took 16 weeks from the first sketches to the final prototype for mass production, made in the laboratory and prototype design in Mérida, Yucatán, México.
GRA : It never surge from an influence of any kind from other furniture, yet, it is a fact that I’m a passionate of design and I see very frecuently the best design in the worlsd, one, because I enjoy the great designs with enthusiasm, two, because I live in a dynamic world influenced by concepts and fashions that put some floor to all of us, so we can have a certain starting point to build from ot to diverge from it on purpose.
GRA : The target audience for these designs are people who like to live surrounded by art willing to distinguish themselves by their good taste in original designs made by hand.
GRA : This design is distinguished by its angular and dynamic lines that emulate the futuristic rockets of the 60s, its structure lacking square angles makes it the focus of attention of the place.
GRA : The cosmic name comes from a collection inspired in the spacial facade of the 50s and early 60s, and try to describe the optimistic feeling of immense progress that they live in those years, almost everyone watching comics with space images and spaceships everywhere. This shapes are displayed in this design
