Furniture designer Sebastian Brajkovic has a series of pieces that involve recognizable furniture elements and embroidered patterns which warp in ways that seem to conflict with their own primitive logics. Similar to the Mestia Airport building, Brajkovic's work is a somewhat literal construct of familiar elements, referential to an old style, but deformed in a way that seems to defy its own material logic. To re-apply my own terminology, this traditional wooden chair with embroidered cushion is the "primitive form", which the designer has then subjected to these distortions.
Whats of particular interest in Brajkovic's chairs is how their actual function is altered by the deformation. In the case of "40 2009 Lathe IX" (pictured above), the primitive form is a chair in which you must sit upright with you feet on the floor. Through the designer's process, in this case adding another chair, bending the backrest back 90 degrees and melding that backrest into the that of the first chair, he changes the function into that of a lounge chair. One of the backrests becomes a footrest instead.
His patterned embroidery demonstrates this curious transformation as well. The diamond pattern in the example is appropriate for one's back, but not ones feet. Again, like in the Mestia Airport building, there's an effort to obscure transition; in effect, to obscure material truth.
Source: Sebastian Brajkovic website
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