From the course: Rhino: Furniture Design
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Background and analysis - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Rhino: Furniture Design
Background and analysis
- In the previous chapter, we analyzed the cafe chair number 14 and then built our own chair inspired by its innovations. In this chapter, we'll take a look at the innovative Zig Zag Chair by Gerrit Rietveld and created a 3D model in Rhino inspired by his design aesthetic. So the Zig Zag Chair is a contradiction, has a very simple form but in order for it to be structurally sound, it requires a pretty complicated method of construction. It took years of failed construction ideas and different prototypes for Rietveld to find a successful solution. Gerrit Rietveld was a furniture designer and architect, influenced by the De Stijl movement, which advocated abstraction and a reduction of design to the essentials of color and form. His most famous chair called the Red and Blue Chair, it abstracts the chair to basic planes and basic colors. He later created the Schroder House, in which he extended these ideas of the De Stijl movement into architecture. So, why is this chair so special? The…
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