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The Sofa

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Created: 02/16/09

Last Edited: 10/27/09

Appreciations: 22

Comments: 4

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Ivan Venkov

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design, sofa, forms, construct, construction, fur, leather, metal, futuristic

Attribution Non-commercial
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Fields: Design

From: Ivan Venkov's Portfolio

"The Sofa" is a futuristic construct linking the past with future. The past, with its "prehistoric" elements which found their form in the symbolic tusks (they also keep the whole construction together) and a negligently tossed fur.

Why "The Sofa"? I prefer to call it "The Sofa", because these forms are joined as people who also have their relations, constructions, sometimes very delicate. Apart from the theme of the object already described, the forms symbolicaly stand for relations and their constructions.

01 backside showing components of the construction

02 At first thought, the backrest might seem a bit unpleseant to be leaned upon, but as you can see, the sitting area is quite narrow compared to the surface of the backrest, it signifies that the height of the object is above the height of a person sitting on the sofa. It is indeed object of larger proportions with height reaching 170 cm.

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gunaars miezis, 11-05-09

looks pretty cool! :)

Ivan Venkov, 03-06-09

And about the front further - the sofa is minimalistic (in its formalistic need of course : ) except the bronze components. There is no need to complicate the area that has the most of functionality in design. Every other component added to the front would be an aesthetic pose. Remember, that surface is meant for your back to be layed upon, not for astronauts to dock their spaceship, it must be inevitably simple.

In aesthetics (which are always under or should be generally "under" the form, in this case it certainly is), the front is an aesthetic contrast to the backside.

Ivan Venkov, 03-06-09

Velichko: The view from this perspective may look a bit blank, it's because the round shape in this view looks bigger or flatter than it actually is. )
As I said, I will add more images later, but currently I'm snowed under a lot of other work.

Velichko Velikov, 03-04-09

Not bad - i like it, but i was a little disappointed when i saw the front of the sofa. The back view really prepared me for something different - did you try other designs for the seat?