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Federico Pastori: 419367 A.A. 2012/2013

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Modern Furniture Design Objects Recreated With PLaSM Modeling Language.

In this page are represented three home objects, designed by three different architect designer. These are a chair drawn by Eileen Gray, a table lamb drawn by Poul Henningsen and a table drawn by Philippe Starck.

Summary

Eileen gray

Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (1878 - 1976)

Eileen gray image

Gray was born as Katherine Eileen Moray Smith on 9 August 1878, near Enniscorthy, a market town in south-eastern Ireland. Her father, James McLaren Smith, was a painter who encouraged his daughter's artistic interests. Her mother was Eveleen Pounden, a granddaughter of the 10th Earl of Moray; she became the 19th Baroness Gray in 1895, upon the death of her own mother, Lady Jane Stuart. After that, Lady Gray, who had separated from her husband in 1888, changed her children's surname to Gray. In 1898, Gray attended classes at the Slade School of Fine Art, where she studied painting. While there, she met Jessie Gavin and Kathleen Bruce. The main style at the fair was Art Nouveau and Gray was a fan of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh which was on exhibit. Soon after, Gray moved to Paris along with her friends Gavin and Bruce from the Slade School. She continued her studies in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi. In 1968, a complimentary magazine article drew attention to her accomplishments, and Gray agreed to production of her Bibendum chair and E-1027 table as well as numerous other pieces with Zeev Aram. They were soon to become modern furniture classics. On 8 November 1972, the Doucet sale added to the interest which continues to this day in the 'antiques' of the twentieth century. Gray's 'Le Destin' screen was featured in the sale and went for $36,000. Collectors entered the chase, and Yves Saint Laurent's interest completed the mythification of her image. In February 2009, a "Dragons" armchair made by Gray between 1917-1919 (acquired by her early patron Suzanne Talbot and later part of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé collection) was sold at auction in Paris for 21.9 million euros (US$28.3 million), setting an auction record for 20th century decorative art.

The chair: Bibendum

Bibendum_top

Bibendum_front

Bibendum_side

Bibendum_behind

Details:

Description

The Bibendum chair was designed by Eileen Gray in the early 1900s but was largely forgotten until an original surfaced in a 1972 auction prompting a new production of this design classic. It is an opulent interpretation of the modernist aesthetic and firmly holds its own in the archives of great furniture design alongside the work of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier who shunned Gray's artistic endeavours when alive.

Model Decomposition

The 3D model of this chair can be decomposed in two main parts:

Pillows

pillows

The leather set, can in turn be decomposed into two main parts:

To represent these components, have been used mainly Bezier curves together with the half-torus and Bezier surfaces. The hardest part, was to make the outer covers of the seat pillow, so that would follow faithfully the inner profile. For the realization of covers, were used half-torus and Bezier surfaces.

Torus function used: 

var torus = function (R, r){
  return mapping = function (v) {
    var a = v[0]
    var b = v[1]

    var u = (r * COS(a) + R) * COS(b);
    var v = (r * COS(a) + R) * SIN(b);
    var w = (r * SIN(a));
    return [u,v,w];
  };
};

The metal frame

frame

The most difficult part in the realization of the metal structure, has been that of the inclined parts to coincide perfectly with those in plan, to do this was calculated the angle of inclination as faithful as possible to reality. Even in this case have been used half torus, Bezier curves and surfaces.

Oblique section:

section

Model Gallery

bib_front bib_top bib_side bib_behind bib_bottom

3D Model

Poul Henningsen (1894 - 1967)

Poul Henningsen image

His life

Poul Henningsen, Danish author, architect and critic, was one of the leading figures of the cultural life of Denmark between the World Wars. In Denmark, he is often referred to as PH. Poul Henningsen was the illegitimate son of author Agnes Henningsen and satirist Carl Ewald. He spent a happy childhood in a tolerant and modern home which was often visited by the leading literates. Between 1911 and 1917 he was educated as an architect, but he never graduated and tried himself as an inventor and painter. His most valuable contribution to design was within lamp design. He invented the so-called PH-lamp in 1925, which in various incarnations used the breakings of light. It was manufactured by the company Louis Poulsen. His best-known models are the PH Artichoke and PH5. The lamps created the economic foundation of his later work. Other notable designs include the PH Grand Piano which is included in several notable 20th-century design collections, including that of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. He also designed Glassalen for Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.

PH 3/2 Table Lamp

PH_1

PH_2

PH_3

PH_4

Details:

Description

The 3/2 PH table lamp belongs to the PH 3-shade family which started out as a pendant solution but quickly developed into other kinds of fixtures and chandeliers. PH 3/2 is based on the principle of a reflecting multi-shade system which gives a harmonious and glare-free illumination. The shades are based on a logarithmic spiral, with the center of the light source placed in the focal point of the spiral.

Model Decomposition

The 3D model of the table lamp can be decomposed in these parts:

Spiral Shades

The lampshades are the most important part of the model, in that their positioning to "spiral",tend to stand out at first glance.The three lampshades were made using the rotational surface function with its three profiles. To give different colors on both sides of the lampshades, were coupled two surfaces of slightly different dimensions. Finally, the edges of the lampshades were represented using the half-torus.

3d_lamp1

//Portion of the code to represent the two adjacent surfaces of a lampshade
var t_p01 = BEZIER(S0)([[1.47,0,0.14],[1.57,0,0.82],[1.58,0,1.51],[1.52,0,2.25],[1.54,0,2.3],[1.49,0,2.33],[1.61,0,2.39]]);
var t_p02 = BEZIER(S0)([[1.47,0,0.14],[1.5,0,0.82],[1.51,0,1.51],[1.45,0,2.25],[1.47,0,2.3],[1.42,0,2.33],[1.61,0,2.49]]);
var t_map01 = ROTATIONAL_SURFACE(t_p01);
var t_map02 = ROTATIONAL_SURFACE(t_p02);

Circular base and support frames

The circular base and the support frames were made using rotational surface, disks, half torus and cylinder surface.

3d_lamp2

Model Gallery

3d_lamp3 3d_lamp4 3d_lamp5 3d_lamp6 3d_lamp7

3D Model

Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck

Carrier

Philippe Starck is a French product designer and interior designer, born 18 January 1949 in Paris. He is equally well-known as an interior designer, a designer of consumer goods, and for his industrial design. Philippe Starck started his career in the 1980’s. The son of an aeronautics engineer, Starck studied at the École Nissim de Camondo in Paris. The inflatable house he imagined in 1969 was a first incursion into questions of materiality, and an early indicator of Starck's interest in where and how people live. Starck's iconoclast designs brought him to the attention of Pierre Cardin who offered him a job as artistic director of his publishing house. At the same time, Starck set up his first industrial design company, Starck Product - which he later renamed Ubik after Philip K. Dick's famous novel - and began working with manufacturers in Italy – Driade, Alessi, Kartell – and internationally, including Austria's Drimmer, Vitra in Switzerland and Spain's Disform, to name but some. His concept of democratic design led him to focus on mass-produced consumer goods rather than one-off pieces, seeking ways to reduce cost and improve quality in mass-market goods. His work is seen in the collections of European and American museums, including the Musée National d'Art Moderne (to which he has donated several pieces, in particular prototypes) the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the MOMA and the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Vitra Design Museum in Basel and the Design Museum in London. More than 660 of his designs were inventoried in French public collections in 2011.Philippe Starck is the first designer who participate to the TED Talks (Technology, Entertainment and Design).

XO Dole Melipone dining table

melipone_1

melipone_2

melipone_3

melipone_4

Details:

Description

Most tables have plain, vertical legs. They do the job, but they're pretty boring, and if you know anything about Philippe Starck, you know that the man hates boring. Dole Mélipone has legs that are curved and rise from the ground at unexpected angles. The whole thing is held together with steel wires. Starck added a tempered glass tabletop, so whoever sits down can marvel at what he has created. Available with circular clear glass or structured glass table top, in two sizes. Designed in 1981, by Philippe Starck, the Dole Mélipone table carefully poises a glass table top above centerpiece sculptural steel legs. Select from clear glass or structured glass circular table top, in two sizes.

Model Decomposition

The 3D model of this table can be decomposed in two main parts:

Glass plate

The representation of the glass was made by simply dialing two Bezier surfaces and a cylinder surface.

table_1

The metal frame

table_2

The realization of the metal frame, was the most difficult part of the project, because each component was tilted differently. For this reason have been made additional components that bring in plan the table legs, on both the supporting plane is on the ground. For the representation of the 3D model were used Bezier surfaces and curves, half torus and disks.

Example add-ins and corresponding code:

table_5

var p1_0 = [[0,0,0],[0,0.183,0],[0.294,0.183,0],[0.294,0,0],[0.294,-0.183,0],[0,-0.183,0],[0,0,0]];
var p1_1 = [[0,0,0],[0,0.183,0],[0.294,0.183,0.04],[0.294,0,0.04],[0.294,-0.183,0.04],[0,-0.183,0],[0,0,0]];
var p1_2 = [[0,0,0.001],[0,0.151,0.001],[0.23,0.15,0.0306],[0.23,0,0.0306]];
var p1_3 = [[0,0,0.001],[0,-0.152,0.001],[0.23,-0.148,0.0306],[0.23,0,0.0306]];
var c1_0 = BEZIER(S0)(p1_0);
var c1_1 = BEZIER(S0)(p1_1);
var c1_2 = BEZIER(S0)(p1_2);
var c1_3 = BEZIER(S0)(p1_3);
var mp1_1 = BEZIER(S1)([c1_0,c1_1]);
var mp1_2 = BEZIER(S1)([c1_2,c1_3]);
var s1_1 = T([0,2])([3.72,-0.01])(R([0,2])(-PI/35)(R([0,1])(PI)(MAP(mp1_1)(dom2D))));
var s1_2 = T([0,2])([3.72,-0.01])(R([0,2])(-PI/35)(R([0,1])(PI)(MAP(mp1_2)(dom2D))));
var surf1 = STRUCT([s1_1,s1_2]);

Model Gallery

table_3 table_4 table_6 table_7

3D Model