Philippe Fournier_Portfolio_2023

M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist and printmaker famous for
drawing impossible shapes, optical illusions, tessellated patterns
and other mathematically-inspired artwork. Over his lifetime he
produced hundreds of lithographs and woodcut prints as well as
thousands of drawings and sketches.
This chair for M.C. Escher, like his artwork, challenges the user’s
perceptions of what is “impossible” by repeating a simple geometric
form, then manipulating it to create an illusion. The motifs of defying
gravity and laws of perspective -- prevalent in Escher’s work --
manifests in a chair that seems to magically suspend itself above the
user’s head. Another recurring motif in Escher’s art is the disollution
of geometries into fractals and tesselations. Likewise, our client’s
chair begins as a solid monolith which deconstructs into three cubes
as the user interacts with it, and which can potentially be completely
separated from one another if desired.
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