Paged Fouco
Paged Fouco
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Our collaboration with Paged was a creative revamping of a classic bentwood chair from company's portfolio. Our approach to design is to achieve surprising effect, but using uncommon methods. For this task we decided to use fire and color in order to shed a new light on this well-known chair.
Our collaboration with Paged was a creative revamping of a classic bentwood chair from company's portfolio. Our approach to design is to achieve surprising effect, but using uncommon methods. For this task we decided to use fire and color in order to shed a new light on this well-known chair.
Learning a lot from very experienced factory workers we could see how much time and effort it takes to create a piece of furniture. To emphasize the wood the chair is made of we were looking for interesting ways to highlight the grain, hence we focused on the ancient technique of burning wood.
Learning a lot from very experienced factory workers we could see how much time and effort it takes to create a piece of furniture. To emphasize the wood the chair is made of we were looking for interesting ways to highlight the grain, hence we focused on the ancient technique of burning wood.
Experimenting with the fire we aimed to keep the wood grain very visible, but charring some elements which resulted in high contrast between the burnt parts. To make it a little more exciting we used a thin layer of color which gave us some exciting patterns.
Experimenting with the fire we aimed to keep the wood grain very visible, but charring some elements which resulted in high contrast between the burnt parts. To make it a little more exciting we used a thin layer of color which gave us some exciting patterns.
To give the chair a certain touch of sophistication we added brass balls - a decorative element that can also serve as a purse hanger. One of the balls has an engraved star that is our logo, but also a symbol of a spark, that started this fire.
To give the chair a certain touch of sophistication we added brass balls - a decorative element that can also serve as a purse hanger. One of the balls has an engraved star that is our logo, but also a symbol of a spark, that started this fire.