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Drawing, Design for Unidentified Object in Robot Form
Designed by Dan Friedman
Likely a design for furniture or sculpture, this drawing reflects Dan Friedman's resistance to the purist, modernist idea that form must follow function. Influenced by his involvement in a European-based philosophical dialogue about furniture since the 1970s, he coined the term "mental furniture" to describe forms in which symbolic meanings beyond the functional are possible. Suggesting both the technological and the human, this design reveals the interplay between pragmatism and fantasy that occupied Friedman throughout his career. |