As an artist who plays with furniture, he was someone I was also greatly interested in. Furniture is the staple of the home, and when I saw ‘The Fuco Ueda chair’ I was instantly excited to try and replicate this in some bizarre way first and foremost, but also to try and add on from it. The artist himself had already stated that he wanted it to feel ‘alive’ and that too was the thing I wanted to capture in the way the legs worked. The idea of a chair moving, like it had legs but didn’t, really appealed and inspired me.
Extract from benjaminnordsmark.com;
[ One out of four chairs this one was inspired by the japanese painter Fuco Ueda that have a interesting universe. She is always using japanese schoolgirls in her paintings, and they are often in very strange scenarious. The girls always have red knees and elbows and often wearingblue dresses.
I was very inspired by her works and wanted to build a chair that captured her universe but with my own approach. Therefore I came up the idea to incorporate the girls’ legs into a simple chair and try to make it look like the chair is alive. ]
