It’s easy to look back at the past and think that all other eras knew their own minds and with purist zeal were able to create entirely new work, for and of the time, without reference to their predecessors. Not so at all, which is one reason why I love scouting around the decorative arts in museums so much. Perhaps they validate my penchant for re-appropriation. Influence, or inspiration?; magical words that treat us to new ideas and open an old way to a new frame of vision.
Coates’ latest collection delves into bones and limbs, joints that connect and form skeletal frameworks that sustain weight….the genesis of this idea had come from thinking about the body’s supporting structures and one stool in particular that had started the ball rolling.
Tag: chairs