Saturday, October 3, 2009

Design failure: obsession produces a chimaera














The problems here are familiar ones. The item is a chimaera which does three things poorly. The suggested use of the end-pieces of the form as a magazine holder is optimistic. The acute angle of the V-shaped section will cause more than one or two magazines to jam together, interfere with each others’ removal and to flip out onto the floor. The designer’s obsession with bentwood forms wastes storage space and the shelf is too low, positioning books at ankle height. Finally, the seat is too hard and without lumbar support.

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