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Cosmic Lounge Chair by Gerardo Ríos Altamirano |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
GR: Inspired by the fashion current “atom punk”, this piece has the noble visage of the Victorian era chairs, while showing the angular and dynamic lines of the 60’s futuristic rockets. The vertices emulate the rear fenders of the 1959 cars, and its structure has no square angles, which gives it a very impressive dynamism that requires being the center of attention in any room.
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
GR: In addition to the dynamic and sumptuous beauty of this chair, it is amazingly comfortable to sit in a relaxed position, which makes it ideal for a living room. It´s multilayer cushion with electric support allows a perfect fit to anyone.
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
GR: Develop a signature design brand that can hold and commercialize this among other designs to the high end market.
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
GR: This project took 16 weeks from the first sketches to the final prototype for mass production, made in the laboratory and prototype design in Mérida, Yucatán, México.
FS: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
GR: It never surge from an influence of any kind from other furniture, yet, it is a fact that I’m a passionate of design and I see very frecuently the best design in the worlsd, one, because I enjoy the great designs with enthusiasm, two, because I live in a dynamic world influenced by concepts and fashions that put some floor to all of us, so we can have a certain starting point to build from ot to diverge from it on purpose.
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
GR: The target audience for these designs are people who like to live surrounded by art willing to distinguish themselves by their good taste in original designs made by hand.
FS: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
GR: This design is distinguished by its angular and dynamic lines that emulate the futuristic rockets of the 60s, its structure lacking square angles makes it the focus of attention of the place.
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
GR: The cosmic name comes from a collection inspired in the spacial facade of the 50s and early 60s, and try to describe the optimistic feeling of immense progress that they live in those years, almost everyone watching comics with space images and spaceships everywhere. This shapes are displayed in this design
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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