Organic design bench RAZORFISH II

wooden

Inspired by life at the sea shore and the subtle curve of a razor shell the Razorfish bench design is a sculptural exercise in pure optical defiance. Overlapped saddle dish carved seating hollows create a dramatic and comfortable bench seat for centre piece placement with an immediately striking visual stance. The dished seating hollowing on the Razorfish bench design is a complex series of interlocking carved hollows that are aligned for optimum ergonomic comfort performance whilst at the same time visually intriguing and tactile sensory delight to behold. The whole piece plays with our perception of shifting optical defiance appearing almost ethereally light whilst at the same time maintaing total structural solidity and physical mass. It is perhaps one of the joys of this design that it subtly distorts our notion of what should and shouldn't work in so many ways yet still appears aesthetically balanced. There is of course nearly as much sculptural carved work carried out on the underside of the seating surface as in the top in order to achieve this effect. Eye lines being cleverly drawn to fade blend edges in waves of movement to disguise the true mass bulk solidity of the structure with apertures undercut in inverted hollowed pools. Very much a work that challenges our pre-conceptions of how a bench seating form can exist. Razorfish II Carved elm seat, bleached ash legs.