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Piero Lissoni at Fabrica
Piero Lissoni at Fabrica
Piero Lissoni, Milan-based product designer is giving a lecture/workshop at Fabrica right now. Yesterday he presented some of his work surrounding the theme of measurement. He mentioned the design process of making this espresso maker:
(image from panik-design.com)
The first one they made, he said, looked beautiful but to the horror of the designer, it made disgusting black water that you couldn't even call it coffee. Working with the engineer and manufacturers, they were finally able to get the right design for the right measurement to get a decent coffee out of the machine. Design, we learn, is not just making things pretty.
Questions were later raised then about form vs function. While the coffee machine must make great coffee, on the other hand a chair or a couch that Lissoni is well known for designing are not at all comfortable to sit on. From Lissoni's view, the sofa he designs is for visualization, in other words, to make a room look aesthetically pleasing, and therefore, need not be comfortable.
Here's one of Piero Lissoni design for Cappellini:
(photo from Unica Home)
He expressed that if you design a comfy sofa, people would just sit in it, get comfortable, fall asleep. His sofa begs for interaction, because they make people move around, adjust themselves, make conversations, etc. If you want a comfortable sofa, then go buy those.
So now we know why there are so many uncomfortable sofa and chairs at furniture shows.
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ReBlogged by ann p on Jul 19, 2006 at 12:12 PM
Posted by ann p on Jul 19, 2006 at 12:12 PM
Comments
nice post ann!
and bravo for an appropriate review of his remarks. for what it's worth, i thoroughly enjoyed his presentation!
Posted by: andyandy at 19.07.2006 02:10 PM
thanks! I enjoyed the presentation too, a little bit too long for those uncomfortable chairs we were sitting in, but I loved that so many people stayed to ask questions. I wish that happened more often.
Posted by: ann at 19.07.2006 03:58 PM
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