Elastic structure in ribs of semi-worked wood; canvas cover.
cm. 120 x 80 x h. 136
Charles F.A. Voysey
The little armchair has a high back which surrounds and enfolds the seat area. It tapers outwards, forming, in vertical ribs, metaphors of petals with a floral structure. Unlike other works by the same designer, in this case the inspiration of nature does not undergo, as normally happens, that strong transfiguration process where form is strongly adapted to identity.
Here, the form of the flower, apart from the change in scale, is used in its entirety: it is the flower which becomes a chair, rather than the chair taking the shape of a flower.
In order to give the object a more appropriate interpretation, the reconstruction favoured the solution where the elongation of the petals reaches the curve resting on the floor, thus ensuring a more marked dynamic upward movement, syntonic with the iteration of the ribs and with their greater length.
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