these designs are wildetecture style furniture - taking wild aspects of africa and infusing them into everyday items. the fauvistic african design theme permeates each piece - untamable africa is at the heart of our creations.
If you have not heard - The
wildetect design studio is busy with a small furniture exhibition of our recent work,
in an interior space designed in seapoint. The design direction we are
exploring is very exciting for us, as it is an exploration of aesthetics first
design. We have experimented with different scale and removed the cad model
step in our furniture design process. From raw thought to
immediate implementation. It does work out very costly, however every spare cent
goes into the creations. Like the early automobile pioneers in garages across the
world - we hover around each creation thinking it the next citreon DS cabriolet
1961. I sometimes find 3d modeling cad packages dilute and render insipid the
end product design. Our work is not designed for mass appeal and because it’s
not designed to principally sell - it allows us to experiment with pure aesthetics and work
in form, play with the design as a personal endeavor.
We
do follow a much more disciplined approach in the conceptual wildetect
style architecture we are busy with. experimenting with age old design ideas
like human driven architectural mechanisms, trompe de l'oeil in the facade ,
perceived kinetic projections, disintegration of perspective, architectural
shadow projections, the erxell concept and earth branded architecture.
running the conservative QJD architectural design studio parallel to wildetecture for 12 years - allows me to sustain the family - however the more wild wildetect studio is where im now spending more energy at present. with the hoffman brothers at times creating work far beyond my imagination - im very proud to be part of this little design showcase. creativity for creativity sake.
