Swedish furnishings model Blä Station has labored alongside David Ericsson to create a picket chair designed to make a press release about design fakes and copies.
Named “Shield Your Rights”, or P.Y.R, the chair was launched throughout this yr’s Stockholm Design Pageant, and is described by Ericsson as a “celebration of simplicity”.
“P.Y.R is greater than only a product – it’s a motion,” the model says. “[It is] a reminder that the easy could be the strongest. But additionally a problem: How will we defend the unique in a time the place copying or “strongly impressed by”, has turn into the norm?”
Courtesy Of Blä Station
Courtesy Of Blä Station
Courtesy Of Blä Station
Regardless of the plain, the particular particulars across the design of the chair are obscure – maybe intentional given the idea. What we do know, nevertheless, is that it has been constructed from pine plywood, and that the shape seems sturdily constructed. A steel plate is affixed to the again of the backrest, and options the chair’s title and a quick paragraph in regards to the ideology behind it.
“We practice engineers, technicians and designers to develop higher, smarter and extra sustainable merchandise – which we then, arms tied and unprotected, watch the quick capital change, degrade and promote to us as nearly the identical or the identical – however at a cheaper price, in a continuing race in direction of our personal destruction”
For each Ericsson and the model, making a seemingly easy chair additionally provided an opportunity to replicate on the prolonged course of concerned – however typically ignored – behind the completed product.
“Design and product improvement are usually not what you see, since you solely see the results of an extended and dear course of,” they are saying. “The design course of requires an unlimited quantity of endurance and an unimaginable quantity of information”
P.Y.R launched at Stockholm Furnishings Truthful, which befell within the Swedish metropolis from February 3 to 7.
