Frank Gehry - Wiggle side chair

Design: 1972 

Manufacture: Easy Edges, Inc. New York

Material: corrugated cardboard, fibreboard, round timber. 

Frank Gehry - "One day I saw a pile of corrugated cardboard outside of my office- the material which I prefer for building architecture models, and I began to play with it, to glue it together and to cut it into shapes with a hand saw and a pocket knife. it was thus possible to transform massive blocks of cardboard sculptures". Gehry named this material Edge board: it consisted of glued layers of corrugated cardboard running in alternating directions, in 1972 Gehry introduced a series of cardboard furniture under the name "Easy Edges" and this included the Wiggle side chair. The furniture was made by gluing layers of card in alternating directions. 

Gehry's furniture , like his architecture is characterised by its abstract sculptural qualities and thus provides an important means of representing the architect's aesthetic in the collection. in addition to its associations with a highly important 20th  century architect, The Wiggle side chair  also references the innovative design aesthetic of the 1960's, particularly that decades expermentation with plastic seating. in its shape and structural principles. 

Human Scale Form.

This is a sheet of the measurements of my class mates and I in a total average. These measurements represent the measurements of a chair suitable for everyone in the class to use. 

in order to create a chair suitable for all types of body forms we had to all get into groups and take the measurements of eachothers body parts for example: hip - knee , hip- tip of shoulder and finger tip - finger tip. these meausrements was then added up and divided by the number of us to find a average for all of us. 

Red and Blue Chair.

The Red and Blue chair is a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld. it represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl art movement in three dimensions. 

The Chair was constructed of u stained beech wood the chair was also not painted until the early 1920's. Rietveld built another new model using thinner wood and painted it all black but painted areas of primary colours to represent the De Stijl movement. 

The De Stijl movement was founded in 1917 and its members believed in pure abstraction by reducing pieces to their essential forms and pure colours. some furniture was simplified to horizontal and vertical lines and they used only the primary colours with black and white..

This is the measurements of the Red and Blue chair drawn out in orthographic drawing.