I used to work in the design industry in several different disciplines as a designer/engineer etc.
My stint with one company involved designing large office spaces filled with cubicles out the wa-zoo. Acres of cubicles.
One technique designers use to break up the maze involves the precise placement of just the right mix of ridiculously expensive furniture pieces. These pieces fall into the realm of “High Design”.
Don’s Helpful Hints: When you say “High Design”, it helps to recall Thurston Howell the Third from Gilligan’s Island. If you do that, you’ll be able to say it with the proper inflections in social settings. Jut out your chin, keep the teeth together, and emphasize the i’s.
Like art, furniture has its icons, both human and material. And like art, the appreciation of each icon is in the eye of the beholder. As they say, some like it hot, some like it cold.
The thing about high design is you have to be somewhat in tune to it to appreciate it. That’s a non-demeaning way of saying you have to be “in the know”. To those “in the know”, there is no better place to be in terms of maintaining one’s coolness.
To those NOT in the know…well they don’t really see any value in being “in the know” in the first place. So, they are just as content as those “in the know”.
But I digress…
High end designers tend to design for the sake of design first, then for the sake of comfort, safety and utility. The resulting creations are most interesting. Surprisingly, most are comfortable…if you remain in the intended position.
So, with all the interesting pieces in the high design realm of furniture, it seems like a good subject for Art Cards. Think I’ll see where it leads. If nothing else, I’ll learn more about the history of the pieces and thus be…”In The Know”.
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