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Design Characteristics

Materials Forms and details

Eileen has a very representative
material that she uses in almost
all of her products: Polished
chromium plated tubular steel. The main forms on Eileen’s designs are
This form of material is related the
with the innovating industrial curved and round shapes with the tubular
processes of the 20’s. Apart steel. Although being its main form, Eileen
from that, she uses leather combinates geometrical forms such as
with different colours and lines,
transparent glass. diagonals and squares, with this round

forms.

. The product’s forms are made into the
simplicity of the function,products have
Colours the form they need. Thin products, doesn’t
have big volumes.
Eileen’s colour Palette for her
products it very solid and In therms of finishing and details, there is
monochromatical. As all products no
being made of steel tube, grey is ornaments on the products and the
the main colour. She uses base materials
colours such as white, black, are plane. About the joints of the pieces,
beige or brown to make a the
strong contrast with steel. main ones are welding and screwing

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