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Yes, But Is It Art?
Posted by: Keech on 23rd Jun 2009 in Creative Report
Of course it is. And industrial design and architecture too. Eric Parry's new door handles for izé are exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the first door handles ever to appear there. (The RA summer show runs until 16th August 2009)
The genesis of the Z handle, from concept drawings in Parry’s sketchbook to working models, and a cast prototype are used to address curator Will Allsop's theme of illustrating the process through working models.
The Z handle, which comes in three sizes, is part of izé's growing portfolio of creative collaboration in the field of architectural ironmongery.
Parry’s intention in this design was to create a range of handles which grow naturally from the backplate reducing the traditional clutter of ironmongery; the necessity for a separate rose and key escutcheon.
A single, clear line is described following the thickness of the long backplate and around the top edge of the lever back through into the plate again. From above, as it inevitably appears in everyday use, the handle manifests itself as a simple flat plane and it is only on gripping it that the complexity of the folded planes beneath are revealed. What at first is perceived as a reductivist visual element becomes a haptic surprise, the tapering form shaping itself to the grip, the neck moulding itself to the thumb.
This all makes sense to me, because I'm a designer, and have in fact spent many happy hours designing and detailing door furniture. You, however, dear reader, may be tempted to say "but it's just a door handle!". How wrong you'd be. Read on...
The angled, almost crystalline forms recall the architect's needle at Southwark, an urban monument which makes a place from unpromising surroundings, becoming a gateway to the city south of the Thames. In a manner the handle does something similar, marking the movement through a door in a series of geometric planes. It also evokes the strange, dynamic experiments of the Czech Cubist architects who attempted to apply the new way of seeing the painted plane to the three dimensional world of building. This move from two to three dimensions, from the pictorial and drawn to the modelled and made, from the flattened plane of the closed door to the sculptural and suggestive dynamism of its opened form is embodied in this deceptively simple series of levers.
The first use of the handle was at the Sebastian + Barquet Gallery in London's Mayfair, where the hardware becomes a piece of furniture to complement the classic modernist pieces in which the gallery specialises. It is also being used on the architect's significant housing in Kuala Lumpur, Iringan Hijau, for which the product was originally conceived and developed.
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Posted by: Keech on 23rd Jun 2009 in Creative Report
Of course it is. And industrial design and architecture too. Eric Parry's new door handles for izé are exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the first door handles ever to appear there. (The RA summer show runs until 16th August 2009)
The genesis of the Z handle, from concept drawings in Parry’s sketchbook to working models, and a cast prototype are used to address curator Will Allsop's theme of illustrating the process through working models.
The Z handle, which comes in three sizes, is part of izé's growing portfolio of creative collaboration in the field of architectural ironmongery.
Parry’s intention in this design was to create a range of handles which grow naturally from the backplate reducing the traditional clutter of ironmongery; the necessity for a separate rose and key escutcheon.
A single, clear line is described following the thickness of the long backplate and around the top edge of the lever back through into the plate again. From above, as it inevitably appears in everyday use, the handle manifests itself as a simple flat plane and it is only on gripping it that the complexity of the folded planes beneath are revealed. What at first is perceived as a reductivist visual element becomes a haptic surprise, the tapering form shaping itself to the grip, the neck moulding itself to the thumb.
This all makes sense to me, because I'm a designer, and have in fact spent many happy hours designing and detailing door furniture. You, however, dear reader, may be tempted to say "but it's just a door handle!". How wrong you'd be. Read on...
The angled, almost crystalline forms recall the architect's needle at Southwark, an urban monument which makes a place from unpromising surroundings, becoming a gateway to the city south of the Thames. In a manner the handle does something similar, marking the movement through a door in a series of geometric planes. It also evokes the strange, dynamic experiments of the Czech Cubist architects who attempted to apply the new way of seeing the painted plane to the three dimensional world of building. This move from two to three dimensions, from the pictorial and drawn to the modelled and made, from the flattened plane of the closed door to the sculptural and suggestive dynamism of its opened form is embodied in this deceptively simple series of levers.
The first use of the handle was at the Sebastian + Barquet Gallery in London's Mayfair, where the hardware becomes a piece of furniture to complement the classic modernist pieces in which the gallery specialises. It is also being used on the architect's significant housing in Kuala Lumpur, Iringan Hijau, for which the product was originally conceived and developed.
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