& Frost Inspired Chair

Korean designer HwaSung Yoo of Mars has designed a table and chair made of extruded aluminium with a cross-section inspired by frost patterns.

"HwaSung Yoo (Mars) – Frost
Our fraught world of mass-production proves innovation is not always an invention of something new. HwaSung Yoo takes an artistic approach to re-innovate the common, existing technology of mass-production with a poetic twist. Through today’s technological precision of extrusion moulding, frostlike patterns are created as cogs for constructing furniture with an added ability to adjust parts and create different variations.I humbly believe that project ‘Frost’ was challenge for creation. It would be challenge of machine-made to hand-made. I hoped to show that common industrial mass production ways are possible to be an artistic creation as well, depend on how we control and use them. Of course, they still involved their own functional strength as parts of machine.
Pattern of the Frost
This frost pattern is inspired from the phenomenon of freezing.
It is a modernizing of ancient patterns, which mostly decorate ancient wooden furniture itself. In other words, Frost pattern is presenting how modernize ancient decoration of furniture with the common technology of mass-production. Through this modernizing, a pattern has gotten a function, which is combining each other.
A pattern of the Frost is expressing emotional aesthetic and providing fulfilled function for constructing furniture.
Repeated patterns extend space and purpose.
Approaching to innovation and creating with a poetic twist connecting between modern and ancient, decoration and function and artistic and engineering."
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