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Professional Furnishing Design

Class 3^A


Teacher of Professional: Maria Carmen Viganò
Teachers of Laboratory: Giuseppe Meroni, Marcello Puija

Scholastic year 2009/2010 Institute Fausto Melotti of Cantù

Project: “the frame”

Studying this issue the students and I have verified "the provocation of the wrongfooting" due to the waste/recycling material that obligatorily we had to use. In these times, this kind of material is very attractive for the world of creative the ones, but diverges in comparison to curricular planning.
This process was followed by a phase of operative incertitude that obliged us to a meditation. In the end we agreed that our works had to be humorous, aware that our social world, sometimes, is sad, and they had to excite, because the emotion is the fuel that makes the world moving and it often makes us to overcome the scarce personal motivation.
We have then put ourselves in the historical furrow of our school. Planning and creativeness: to discover our potentialities and to put this in action, underlining the continuity of the relationship between students and teacher in the daily life together.
For us, some waste/recycle materials founded have been particularly interesting as: the recycled grey cardboard, the newspaper paper, the plastic bobbins remaining from the textile processing, pieces of discard of balsa of the laboratories of modelling, we have started thinking about the frame as theme of cabinet-making (ebanisteria).
The frame as:
o        element of restriction of a bidimensional space but also as border of imaginary or illustrated territories.
o        a window on reality but also
o        an aedicule that celebrates an evocative image,
o        excessive and noisy element (a minstrel that attracts the attention)
o        an object itself that can transmit new meanings.

Here then:
1.      the frame entitled" LIFE." The outlines of the seeds of the playing card (spade, diamond, club and hearts) have been created with the paper-pulp from plastic mould for the ice cube for the summer drinks. Specific words written on shabby newspaper were chosen and cut out. They are, by now, discreet but obsolete witnesses of the flowing of present time. The predominance of the grey, dark or less intense, in such three-dimensional outlines belonging to sensorial the space, assumes the metaphor of the life, revealing its project: the chance, the fortune and the cheater. Often grey, life is made of repeated gestures, duties and sacrifices. Nevertheless, sometimes love, also in general sense, inflames it (the selected symbol has been the red heart as organ of fire). Life assumes often just one colour: the red that marks it in an indelible way. However, be careful to the " black  spades" that warns: each love has its part of hurting pain.
2.      Another frame has been projected through to geometric shape out of the ordinary "THE CYCLOID", made of regular tetrahedrons all linked among them. The recycled cardboard and the veneering of discard, kindly given by the firm" Tabu" of Cantù, such manufactured article were made by us. The tetrahedron is one of the five regular solid, whose harmonic regularity, its imperturbable and static appearance, have been put in discussion when the single element has been combined with other tetrahedrons, forming a sort of ring, that wheel on himself, just turned into cycloid. That cycloid, with the possibility to rotate on himself, one of its geometric property, has allowed us to created complex form of which same faces could lay on planes sets in different positions in the same" aedicule." Representing the continuous to become and the contamination of the different surfaces, the same geometric structure of the cycloid has allowed us to" not-define" the same rigorousness of the frame, permitting  a mobile part: nothing is always equal to itself but different events can modify the objective state of fixity. These mobile parts produce some shadows on the fixed parts of the frame and the  movement of light during the day and the change of seasons testify the continuous flowing of the phenomena. The choice of using, in the prototype, the recovered panels of laundry for the house publicity has given us the possibility to think that everything is transitory. Also the winning image, more compiled, with bright colours that has captured the attention of a lot of people, is passed. It has been fragmented, demolished and reconstituted with other meanings.
3.      Somehow, always starting from the idea of regularity to be contaminated, we have created a frame from a separated surface according to square modular net, regular form for excellence, we have then curved it not-defining its being flat, apparently from nothing, some depressions were created interrupting its flat regularity. We also found one different form of existence. Under the light the surface has transformed from bidimensional to three-dimensional! The use of the paper-pulp, made by recycled scottex, to draw the form of the mould, has created the illusion to have produced forms of " FALSE MARBLE" (title of the frame), to ironically playing on the contraries: soft-hard, warm-cold, fixed-mobile.
4.      Reflecting on the figure of the minstrel the association of ideas with the carnival mask and particularly of the accessory of the hat over a bizarre wig has been easy. Starting from the form of the circle, studying some of its structural lines and thinking to a possible folding of a hat, it came natural to think about it as support of the consequential trunks of cone from the discard of the bobbins, seeming ruins of unlikely eighteenth-century decorations. And here lays the parody of the EPHEMERAL BAROQUE! (title of the frame).
5.      Referring to the historical experience of whom has worked in the design world how to forget the precious lesson of the everlasting Bruno Munari, and of his didactic games! In one of his modular game, we have observed the regular form of the circle in which an equilateral triangle was subscribed. Wanting to work with the asymmetry and the discontinuity, we have replaced the circle with the ellipse (two centers or fires). In this way, we have introduced an element of trouble in the aggregation and rended dynamic and not symmetrical what was born for having both properties: being static and symmetrical. All was built recovering coloured old papers binders and tables of sketch not finished and by now obsolete because compiled in preceding years. The effect is of an explosion of colours and " DANCING FORMS" (title of the frame).
6.      A frame in particular focused our attention: "JOIE DE VIVRE" (title of the frame). We were inspired by a pyrotechnic show. On a support made of discards of balsa, then dyed with mordant to dignify its colour, we have glued the coloured plastic bobbins longitudinally cut. On the form of circle, that everything contains but never begin and never ends, the placing in radius of the outlines of the bobbins cut has also created the feeling that everything is in expansion as to fireworks that has just blown up, as ours " joy to live!" .
7.      The last job has been dedicated to the " OLD NEWSPAPERS." Exploiting their resistance if rolled up, hold by electrician wrappers, it seemed scheming to delimit the images with the words!

We have tried to resolve the seen forms of our frames I know that they reached the evidence of an adequacy from our point of view.
" Despite the singleness of every look, which sees what its conformation allows him and suffers from the poverty of its individuality"," the strive of our creativeness was that to approach to form that stirred up the feeling of the adequacy." because." it appears to everybody as the essence itself of Beautiful without changing, context, neither reserve or effort." 2

We have tried to engrave on the sensory sphere of whom looks, hoping not to leave them without emotions.








Notebook:
1" not-define" neologism that aims to describe how, with an intervention rationally managed, we are inclined false make to law of composition or geometrical and modify it in its opposite meaning.
2 cits. Muriel Barbery" The elegance of the hedgehog" Europa editions.




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