The Most Simple Chair
It’s always interesting to see when people are asking the same questions as you are. In this case: what would be the most simple simplest chair possible?
Grycja Erde, a 23 year old student at the Academy of Design and Arts in Kharkov Lviv, Ukraine, set out to create just that. This is her concept.
- 11.03.2010 .
- Maarten P. Kappert .
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- Category:
- Furniture design
- Object:
- Chair
- Designer:
- Grycja Erde
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- 11 comments
That’s quite lovely. However, the fact that a 23rd year old Ukrainian (understandably) doesn’t know the superlative of “simple” doesn’t mean that the rest of us have to keep repeating her mistake.
But the chair itself is rather minimalistic. That, however, doesn’t mean you can’t combine several of them into something much more complex.
Thomas, just in case your comment was a response to mine, I was merely being a grammar fascist by pointing out that the superlative of “simple” is “simplest,” not “most simple.” “Simplest” is also simpler, so perhaps more appropriate.
The Donald-Judd-alike chair is, as I said, lovely. I’m only criticising the copywriting.
Oh, I see. This is true, though the “most simple” wording is quite common.
I will have to agree with Orestes here, the chair is beautiful, enough to make blog about it; the name however, needs some little work.
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I just found here 1 little mistake – this Academy of design and Arts I finished in Lviv, not in Kharkov.
Will think a bit more about the name :)
‘Most’ in this context could also be defined as ’very’. As in the phrase: ‘I loved the film. It was most enjoyable.’
i.e. The Very Simple Chair.
Orestes, if you would have read the secondary descriptor about the chair, in the paragraph the phrase “the most simple chair” is struck through and followed with “simplest.” Obviously this website would not display typos, so it seems that the title is intentional and part of the products’ branding.
In addition, if the designer wanted the simplest name, isn’t “Chair” even simpler than “The simplest chair?”
@Emma: That name’s already taken.
This is seriously cute!
This is cute, very cute, but not much more than that. From my point of view it is quite a weak design, if you think a bit about it, it’s impossible to use it properly as a table, or very uncomfortable, and surfaces which once are the top desk then become leaning surfaces, with no difference in finishing, do they all mean the same? Anyways, there is a lot of potential in the design, and it’s experimental, it explores shapes and its relation with function. It’s also playful, and definitely cute. So it is totally fine and promising as a work at an Academy of Arts at 23 y.o.
Good job, Grycja, and hope you don’t take my words wrong :)