This is an attempt to create a modern ritual space within a piece of furniture for repetivie actions to take place. And literally creating a frame that will praise a, maybe trivial but yet ritual action. Making an everyday-ritual a little more noticeable.
Complete chair shot
Example of use.
Detail shot of top shelf.
Detail shot of how seat and legs are joined.
Detail shot of milled seat.
Example of use.
Sketches
SPACES WITH SPECIAL MEANING
The room has a special meaning and is encoded with specific actions to be performed in a certain way - rituals - and already the room becomes a ritual space. The space that is most often associated with rituals, are religious spaces, but rituals are not only connected to religions, because we perform ritual acts all the time without even noticing.
Note on how to define a ritual:
A ritual is an action or a series of actions carried out in a context of a particular situation.
THE RITUAL SPACE
A space becomes a ritual space when events that are some how special or important takes place and most important, that have a repetitive caracter. Over the years, the perception of “the ritual space” has changed. The ritual rooms used to lie behind church walls, but that has changed radically. Today other ritual spaces have appeared. Ex. Museums, theaters and also our own home.
THE ACTIONS IN THE RITUAL SPACE
The ritual space is designed to get us to follow certain patterns of behavior or cause us to react in a certain way.
When you enter a room you more or less get a sense (perhaps quite unconsciously) that there are certain standards for what you can and cannot do in this specific room. You enter a frame. Rituals give meaning to life with their emphasis on shared values and creates a whole through their (often) symbolic form, and pulls us out of the everyday / the trivial.
