Design
#chairs
#Chris Wolston
#furniture
#weaving
#wicker
![A wicker chair with arms raised upward, legs, and feet.](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TFP_CHRIS_WOLSTON_NALGONA_-T2-e1697120820995.jpg)
All pictures © Chris Wolston, shared with permission
American artist and designer Chris Wolston (previously) conceptualizes the chances of melding the human physique with the type of a chair. Rising from his second studio in Medellín, Colombia, Wolston’s Nalgona collection highlights the South American nation’s custom and abundance of mimbre, or wicker.
In a video documenting the method of constructing a chair from this assortment, Wolston explains that “Nalgonas are concurrently a chair and an anthropomorphic embrace, a human type embracing a human type.” By incorporating raised, wiggly arms, arched legs, and bottoms, Wolston’s work imbues playfulness and pleasure with the practicality of furnishings design. The outcomes are distinctive, exceptionally humanistic, and welcoming.
The artist works with native weavers in Medellín, utilizing wicker sourced from the Colombian Amazon. Starting the method in his studio by sculpting tentative chair types out of clay, Wolston then creates blueprints of the ultimate design earlier than welding a body for the wicker to be woven into. Skilled weavers who’ve practiced the craft for many years slowly however certainly carry every bodily piece to life, row after row, element after element.
His forthcoming solo present, Chris Wolston at Resort Bel-Air, opens in Los Angeles on October 25. For extra info, observe alongside on Instagram.
#chairs
#Chris Wolston
#furniture
#weaving
#wicker
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