Posted by Harry
Meta MoCo | 10 Dec 07 | Comments (3) | Stumble
+ pmg's Live Cooking Table is a table and cooktop in one. It has a surface made of Ceran glass-ceramic panels which can be individually decorated with customized metallic prints. The control elements are hidden within the table.
+ COCO&CO Design's metal and plexi Cubical lamps... goes well with the expandable Cubical table below...
+ Joe Doucet’s chairs are sleek pieces of furniture that play with curves and grooves. There is an accent on negative space and form, surrounded by woods such as American walnut. Bound (above) uses minimalist structural engineering to put forth a notion of movement, giving the impression that it might go off on its own.
The Joe Doucet's chair seems so much a copy of Michael Bihain's mosquitochair.
See on http://www.obdesigner.net or http://www.bihain.com.....
Sorry but i prefer the belgian designer's version.
I checked out that other chair and have to concur with Mat. These both look near identical.
Which came first and how can 2 designs come so close to one another?
I, as the designer of this chair, have of course noticed the physical similarities of bound with Michael Bihain's eloquent mosquitochair. Although similar in appearance, they are quite different in concept and technical construction.
In addition, Bound was created and exhibited in 2005, a full two years before Mosquito. However, I in no way would consider one a copy of the other.
When you design a chair, you have very few formal considerations. There are legs, a seat, a back and the materials. One is bound (no pun) to arrive at a similar solution via different paths of thought. This is one of the perils of trying to do original work. There are thousands of chairs which are completely indistinct from one another. When two are similar, it is unfair to assume anyone is copying.
Furthermore, if you look at the construction concept, the chairs are really not very similar.
With great respect to Michael Bihain,
Joe