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Design Language Principles Simplicity vs. Complexity Fauvism

The designs are mostly stripped back to the
Form and Geometry basic forms of very geometric shapes,
relating back to elements of cubism.
A lot of here designs are very geometric. She focuses heavily on
very distinctive shapes such as circles, cylinders, squares, Hierarchy and Organisation
rectangles, and lines. By mixing some of these simple shapes she
creates beauitfully balanced designs with a sleek moderist style. Her designs often centralise a few bold/
main colours that are the focus of the
design with some complementary

Colour and Contrast materials and colours that make the whole Cubism
product stand out. Although these colours
She uses a lot of neutural, deep, rich colours in her work. would still be quite muted.
She utalises the natural colour of some of her materials

such as the brown wood, and the natural fur skin colour. Form/ function relationship
She also has some deep colours in her palatte such
and burgundy, green, and blue. Her designs follow a rigid structure. They all
comfort have a quite intentional and geometrical
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structure that they folllow. She focuses on
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how it fits with a person. She focused on the
Materials and Finishes mics f
functionality of the design, however, she
The materials that she uses are quite luxourious i interpreted it very artistically.
such as some of her exotic wood, leather, and
fur. The finishes on her some of her work is
done by traditional Japanese lacquerware
in which she would spend hours in her
bathroom painting and polishing layers of
lacquer onto the wood. The finishes on She added ribbing

her work would be either very glossy, or to the leather in
she would leave the natural finish of some of her works.
the material. functionality