Cherner

DETALLES DEL PROYECTO

Cherner is a project that began in 2013 and culminated in 2017, whose series of works play with the functionality of the patterns and explores the individual elements and their combinations, using the forms not as possible objects, but as empty spaces, pictorial languages , or dissections of bodies.

Norman Cherner is a mid-twentieth century designer who dedicated his life to the exploration of multidisciplinary design, from furniture and lighting to toys. He was a pioneer in low-cost prefabricated housing, and in the pattern system for self-construction. Cherner worked all his life to make affordable designs a reality.

His “Do it yourself” books are timeless devices to instruct and inspire, presented primarily as a series of instructions that can be molded and modified to suit different tastes and abilities.

This project has connections with other works of the artist where the manuals “Do it yourself” are the starting point for a reflection on manual labor as opposed to serial production.

Cherner. Do it yourself

DETALLES DEL PROYECTO

The first series of works made by the artist, associated with these concepts is titled, Cherner. Do it Yourself and refers to the use of technological innovations and materials of the postwar period, such as laminated wood, applied to industrial design and architecture. Refined and straightforward designs accessible to any family.

Cherner. Do it yourself. 2013 6 wooden plates with cut in cnc and assembled wood furniture; and 6 impressions on vellum paper. Wood plates: 150 x 150 cms. Furniture: variable measures Impressions on paper albanene: 60 x 60 cms.

Cherner.-Do-it-yourself-1

Chair 4 / Deconstructed Cherner

DETALLES DEL PROYECTO

Chair 4 /Deconstructed Cherner is the second part of this series and picks up the manuals of ethics and DIY, based on the book “How to build toys and furniture for children” (1953) by Norman Cherner. The reinterpretation of the Chair 4 piece is an interdisciplinary practice in which the result is a reading of multiple approaches, from industrial design to traditional media such as carpentry and crafts, specifically the woven tapestry.

This exercise reconsiders how furniture patterns can be deconstructed, altered, disassembled, reconfigured, and resignified.

This project plays with the loss of functionality of a pattern and explores the individual elements and their combinations.