This chair was an exercise in combining 2 very different design styles
Brutalism & Memphis design
Brutalism
I used ubiquitous mass manufactured materials to construct the chair. no material is precious and the design is easily multiplied and manufactured for the masses
Memphis
The design only uses simple shapes (like something you would see on a mobile) and puts the form over the function, making the piece more sculptural than practical.
The bronze ball is the centerpiece of this chair. Visually it holds the chair together. Both styles I researched are classified as post modern. The bronze ball represents the modernism style that both Brutalism and Memphis stemmed from.
Here are the sketches from me trying to combine both design styles. You can see an earlier version of the final chair in the bottom left image.
