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Chair for M.C. Escher4B Chair ProjectInstructed by Dr. Elizabeth EnglishDesign Collaboration w. Wayne Yancompleted in 2019, Cambridge, OntarioESCHER’S ESCHER’S CONCEPT CONCEPT601. 1. GEOMETRY 1. GEOMETRY 2. 2. REPEAT 2. REPEAT 3. 3. 3. 3. METAMORPHOSISESCHER’S CONCEPT30
M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist and printmaker famous fordrawing impossible shapes, optical illusions, tessellated patternsand other mathematically-inspired artwork. Over his lifetime heproduced hundreds of lithographs and woodcut prints as well asthousands of drawings and sketches.This chair for M.C. Escher, like his artwork, challenges the user’sperceptions of what is “impossible” by repeating a simple geometricform, then manipulating it to create an illusion. The motifs of defyinggravity and laws of perspective -- prevalent in Escher’s work --manifests in a chair that seems to magically suspend itself above theuser’s head. Another recurring motif in Escher’s art is the disollutionof geometries into fractals and tesselations. Likewise, our client’schair begins as a solid monolith which deconstructs into three cubesas the user interacts with it, and which can potentially be completelyseparated from one another if desired.ROTATIONROTATION1:1SLEEVE CC C CSLEEVE C1:1ROTATIONROTATE -901:10SLEEVE B DETAIL34 35ROTATE 901:10SLEEVE C DETAIL36 37CROTATIONROTATIONROTATIONned de theole.te. tate.90°perterrommd tedanyes - -to toROTATIONCBB B BBROTATE 901:10SLEEVE C DETAIL36 37SLEEVE B1:1ROTATIONSLEEVE CSLEEVE BROTATIONSLEEVE B1:1ROTATE -90ROTATION1:10SLEEVE B DETAIL34 35tion nnseer’sAROTATIONCHAIR CONCEPTA A ASLEEVE A1:1SLEEVE A1:1POLE SECTION 1:5 1:5ASLEEVE ABOX 1 - FIXED1:10SLEEVE A DETAIL32 33SECTION THROUGHROTATION MECHANISM32BOX 1 - FIXED1:10SLEEVE A DECHAIR CONCEPT1. GEOMETRY 2. 2. REPEAT 3. METAMORPHOSIS3. METAMORPHOSIS31
Page 1 and 2: Philippe FournierSelected Works 202
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