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“
DESIGN MAKES THINGS SEEM SPECIAL,
AND WHO WANTS NORMAL IF THEY
CAN HAVE SPECIAL? “
VITRA EVO-CHAIR CORK FAMILY CHAIR JASPER MORRISON
The VITRA evo-c follows These cork furniture pieces
morrison’s ‘super normal’ benefit from the natural
ideology, where all properties of the organic Jasper Morrison is an English product
components of the discrete
yet highly revolutionary composition. Each design and furniture designer
design from material choice is stable and durable while
to form are influenced by his remaining lightweight and
creative restraint. easy to manoeuvre. For him, instead of calling him a
designer, he is more willing to call
himself an atmosphere police, a
creator of a good space atmosphere.
What he cares more about is how a
piece of design affects the
atmosphere around it. His design
philosophy is “super normal”.
ROWENTAGRO PALMA DESIGN PRINCIPLES
The bulk of the time invested Morrison worked in collaboration
in this project was spent with 160 year-old Japanese cast Jasper Morrison’s designer style and philosophy is “produce everyday
translating the pared-down iron manufacturer Oigen to create objects for everyone’s use, make things lighter not heavier, softer not
designs into realisable the Palma cookware range. The harder, inclusive rather than exclusive, and generate energy, light, and space.”
products while maintaining the products are all intend to follow
simplicity of line and economy the tradition of Oigen’s production Hw designs objects that we love to live with but whose qualities might go
of detail we were looking for. techniques. unnoticed. He believes that good design has less to do with making products
noticeable and more to do with making sure they are useful.
