"I admire everything that is useless, frivolous and
whimsical. I hate functionalism, post modernism and almost everything else. I
do not agree with the dictum that houses are supposed to be ‘machines to live
in’. For me, the house and its objects is supposed to be some crazy place that
make you laugh."
~ Pedro
Friedeberg
Pedro Friedeberg is a Mexican artist and designer known
for his surrealist work filled with lines, colors, ancient and religious
symbols. His best known piece is the
"Hand-Chair" a sculpture/chair designed for people to sit on the
palm, using the fingers as back and arm rests.
Friedeberg began stuyding as an architect but did not complete his
studies as he began to draw designs against the conventional forms of the
1950's and even completely implausible ones such as houses with artichoke
roofs.
He used arthitectural drawing as the medium through which
he created unusual compositions and also designed furniture and useless
objects, admitting that his artistic activity was rooted in boredom. This sense of irony and surfeit imparted to
his pictures, through the hallucinatory repetition of elements, an asphyxiating
formal disorder. Friedeberg's work is a
product of highly conscious, if not self-conscious thought.
Kelly Wearstler's Home Office
Grand Foyer by Michael Herold Design
Home of Architect Jorge Elias in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Kelly Wearstler Bathroom
Kelly Wearstler Office Entry
Lenny Kravitz Paris Apartment
Nate Berkus Martinique Tropical Living Room
Pedro Friedeberg's Hand and Foot Chair
Sig Bergamin's Eclectic Home in Brazil
View of Pedro Friedeberg's Home/Studio
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