Chair Avatars
This is a display area for my spare chairs - my various Twitter avatars.
Why Chairs?
Chairs symbolize social interaction. They invite you to sit down and stay a while; take a load off. You're probably sitting right now. We sit down to digest news. We sit to think. We sit to be social. You might say chairs are the first social media. Okay, you wouldn't but let's pretend.
Some beautiful chairs are painful to sit on (talkin' to you Frank Lloyd Wright, and owners of Indian restaurants everywhere). Many comfy chairs can look quite ugly. Chairs can fit with all situations - from thrones to bean-bags. Lawn chairs say "relax, enjoy the weather." Kitchen chairs say "have a bite." Dentists' chairs say "sit down and scream a while."
As an early user of Twitter in '07, I began to explore a dynamic avatar idea – it was always easy to identify my feed based on the avatar's subject matter, but the actual image changed often. If you followed me and my meanderings, I hope you found the conversation fun and/or thoughtful. Pull up a chair.
The avatar history is captured below...
Oct 6, 2014
Adjaye's Washington Chair
This contemporary chair design "Washington Chair" is from 2013 is by UK's David Adjaye – principal of a large, globally-active architectural firm with prominent projects and awards I'll leave to the reader to explore.This chair, designed for Knoll, to me suggest elements of Adjaye's Tanzanian/Ghanaian origins and with the controlled rigour of Royal College of Art training. I see references too, of a 2007 piece I used a few years back by designers Ludovica and Palomba, and how about Frank Lloyd Wright's sumac-inspired geometric stained-glass work too? I like how the side view of the leg echoes the tree-branch pattern of the back. Hope you like it too.
Here's a link with some more analysis, background and pics I later found on a site called 'LivinSpaces.'
