CONTEMPORARY DESIGN
Line Chair by Alex Hull was a commission curated by Polina Angelova and created especially for the Reconsidering Canon exhibition at the Design Museum, London, as part of the London Design Festival 2018.
Invited by Curator Polina Angelova to respond to the aesthetic philosophy of Frank Gehry’s architecture and his belief in Visual Chaos, Alex Hull was challenged to create a contemporary design object that addresses Chaos and expresses the pleasure of unease.
Created by a single, fast, continuous movement of a pen on paper, Hull’s work is usually characterised by strictly controlled organic curves. In this instance, Polina Angelova’s curatorial brief called for relinquishing some degree of control and expressing movement through the chaotic imperfections that Gehry finds so beautiful. The Line Chair by Alex Hull was born out of the struggle between the overriding internal need to control the line and the attempt to let go, allowing the inertia to take over the hand movement at the end.
By setting up her curatorial proposal, Polina Angelova inspired a whole new series of chairs, tables, and benches created by Alex Hull including the Line Bench which is currently on display at Gallery FUMI, in London and was created in 2020.
Links:
https://designmuseum.org/whats-on/london-design-festival-2018/reconsidering-canon
