{"id":1330,"date":"2008-09-03T08:55:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T12:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2008-09-03T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T12:55:41","slug":"a-pelvic-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"A Pelvic Maneuver."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2008\/03\/26\/bone-armchair-by-joris-laarman\/\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u201cTo-marrow\u2026.To-marrow\u2026I love ya\u2026To-marrow\u2026\u201d\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/67eb9012.jpg\" title=\"\u201cTo-marrow\u2026.To-marrow\u2026I love ya\u2026To-marrow\u2026\u201d\" alt=\"\u201cTo-marrow\u2026.To-marrow\u2026I love ya\u2026To-marrow\u2026\u201d\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to have a good day, look at what the Dutch are doing in design. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jorislaarman.com\"  target=\"_blank\">Joris Laarman<\/a>&#8216;s Bone Chair, above, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmagazine.com\/artdesign\/2008\/03\/joris_laarman?printable=true\"  target=\"_blank\">says <em>W<\/em> magazine<\/a>, is a concept<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>that he developed on a computer and then cast in aluminum. For the form, Laarman relied on software that car manufacturers use to develop the most efficient shapes for auto parts. (The software was originally inspired by the biology of human bones, whose regenerative capacity allows them to add and subtract matter as needed.) The result is a delicately sculptural object that contains no superfluous or decorative matter yet is gorgeous enough to make people marvel. \u201cIt\u2019s as if a tree just grew out of the ground to keep you propped up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bone-chaise-longue-by-joris-laarman_pub.jpg\"  title=\"Chillin\u2019 on my chaise\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bone-chaise-longue-by-joris-laarman_pub.jpg\" title=\"Chillin\u2019 on my chaise\" alt=\"Chillin\u2019 on my chaise\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>So adds Paola Antonelli, senior curator in the Museum of Modern Art&#8217;s department of architecture and design. MoMA featured Laarman&#8217;s chair, and this polyurethane chaise version, right, in the museum&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/exhibitions\/exhibitions.php?id=5632\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Design and the Elastic Mind<\/em><\/a> exhibit this past spring.<\/p>\n<p>I first saw and was struck by Laarman&#8217;s work on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendhunter.com\/trends\/bone-chair\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Trendhunter<\/em><\/a> and the indefatigable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2008\/03\/26\/bone-armchair-by-joris-laarman\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Dezeen<\/em>.<\/a> Yet his conceptual force is what gives his work its elemental power. As he notes in <em>W<\/em>, \u201cCombining reason with emotion, that\u2019s the most difficult thing to do\u2014in design and in everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Difficult, yes. But, clearly, there&#8217;s an even harder task at which Laarman excels: Making it look easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to have a good day, look at what the Dutch are doing in design. Joris Laarman&#8216;s Bone Chair, above, says W magazine, is a concept that he developed on a computer and then cast in aluminum. For the form, Laarman relied on software that car manufacturers use to develop the most efficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}