We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer about their original and creative design work. is an award-winning creative designer, that makes our world a better place with their original works.
("") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work . Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
: The idea is to make a stable, stiff, functional and as beautiful as possible form of a chair out of a single piece of plan material, by making cuts and bending it.
: Achieving a form as "fluid" as possible, with no sharp angles.
: Producing it... or letting someone produce it, better said; somehow looking forward to this process as a challenge in itself, in the same way as constructing architecture projects: they might suffer changes during the site works, but as long as ideas survive I embrace changes.
: From the moment of decision of trying to make a chair design out of one piece of folding material until the completion of "Yarra"'s shape, the process took around 3 months and tens of scale models built. However, the type of research continued further, resulting in several other designs, significantly different from "Yarra", yet within the same principle.
: I am an architect and my commissions so far have been buildings, interior design (actually only few) or landscape design. This design came as an aim to challenge myself into designing a bit different: different scale, type of restrictions, etc.
: I plan to sell or lease the production rights.
: The pleasure of investigating in producing form and volume.
: Too many to count.... Definitely I find very inspiring the works and designs of Modernist Architects such as Charles and Ray Eames, Arne Jacobsen, Antonio Bonnet-Castellana and many others.
: Hopefully it won't be too expensive to produce it. Usually my favorite clients (thinking of architectural commissions I have for private house/investments) are from the young or not so young urban professionals, which in the Romanian social spectrum doesn't mean rich people...
: Most of the similar designs use metal legs to hold the seating. This was one challenge I put myself into when designing it: building it completely from the same continuous material.
: "Yarra" is the name of a river; I used river-names for the the entire series of this design concept (folded material) because of the flow-like resulted and desired shapes.
: The most classical method possible: making models.
: I don't know... I really regard it as simple, as a play...
: Only by myself and only with architect's advice around (especially Corina Croitoru's for this design).
: Its production would require some technology.
: Nothing special: establishing my challenge, reading and researching in the object design history (more than the usual architectural training offers), my own experiments with materials.
: I suppose they didn't come yet, I haven't produced the design so far.
: Because of thinking to "build" it, I thought of this would as an opportunity to promote it.
: This is a very different kind of work than the architecture projects I usually do in the very direct working with material: both in achieving form directly from manipulating the material and in the focus on 1:1 scale where sizes less than 1 millimeter could dramatically change form.
: No. Thank you for the good questions.
