Wildetecture design ideals fits into the typical Africa artists wild ideas category, The architectural designs and furniture wildetecture is designing & exploring is a style of wild Africa fauvistic design. A visual conceptual of the intensity of living on such a vibrant, energetic, at times chaotically wild continent.
The wildetecture furniture range for me is really immediacy towards an end product design approach. - Like drinking Oros without any water added, or biting hard sweets to get the intense flavor immediately. - Architectural design is such a long creative process - With huge money constraints, client nonsense, QS piles, interior designer angst, landscape architect biliary and builders and contractors constant whining. This all endeavoring to water down ones initial design concept ideas to absolute dust and nothing. The end product is sadly always a vastly chipped away collective design creative process. With many, many gritted teeth smiles whilst you calf eye the interior designer whose just axed a very important window for the blooming TV. And who endeavors to challenge the architectural style with current weekly trends from any number of glossy and web design photographic platforms. The mood boards presented never ever seem to always fully really align with the mood of the as built end product. One of those times when real life is the dull grey bird partner to its flamboyant brightly feathered moodboard counterpart.
So wildetecture design is a complete knee jerk reaction to this type of creative collective towards the drab dull control really. The idea with these wild furniture pieces and the bright gaudy colours is the stuffed bright red crocodile in the room approach. - As wildetects we love functional art and colourful form, the idea of not taking yourself too design seriously. - Yes I am aware my work can be very childlike in execution and form at times. However the concept is to create one off pieces that are not at all serious but can be very playful.
The Charlie and Charlize chit chat wildetect design chairs are a moment to sit and relax and giggle and childishly implode. As we juxtapose our very serious adult lives with the now. A childlike zone if you like, discussing the bizarre merits or demerits of a crazy wildly colorful furniture piece, a type of adult den, to simply chill ax. - Because if the designers this off the wall nuts, bat-shing crazy, maybe it’s OK for me to be a little childish right now, whilst I sit here. Bringing in the child like mindset within the adult environment through color, form and playfulness. Well thats the idea of the design, i know adulting is far, far more complicated than all that diatribe, that i just spewed out in a frenzied minute.
Designers can prattle on about Africa being such an influence for them- however most just tack on a few well known paint techniques from an in the interior land and a few colorful beads. To my simple mind they haven't really understood the deep Africa age old highways and byways, the back roads and the far off living spaces deep off the beaten tracks. I have experienced this deep hospitality personally, and the kindness is incredible. You just go knock on a suburban New York homes door. 95% of the time, kindness or Tea is definetly not what they will give you. But when you rock up 20 miles from the road at a humble little abode in an Africa landscape setting, Nobody even speaking your language even. Hospitality you will receive 85% of the time. Thats a fact. So whats wild and whats not i ask you? Africa rural or a new york suburb minute?
Most try to compare and dare i say, try to Westernise Africa style. Picasso is one of the rare external artists who creatively tapped into the very heartbeat and drum beat of an Africa continent style. In my limited experience, having grown up in Cape Town, for me Africa is big, bold, loud in your face taxi music - BOOM BOOM BOOM. the sound comes up out the ground, the beat and base is so loud. when a taxi pulls in front and parks, whilst you wait, its obvious to your little classical music interlude. Like the sound of the deep rumble growl of a lion which comes up out of the ground to the pit of your stomach. That type of experience for me, is a type of wild punk. (did i just make a comparison, oh tut tut) Just visit any Africa city from Cape to Cairo and tell me if its all quiet classical quiet mood music and afternoon tea and second breakfasts? Well second and third breakfasts definetly yes.
To my limited mind the experience is much more wild vibrant, edge of your seat markets with buy anything you can imagine. A sheep head on the braai, millions of dollars being exchanged in the open with a few AK 47 dudes holding court, it is a wild edge of your seat experience. Its really exciting - not subdued and definitely not apologetic. That's why so many folk leave its shores. They think heading for the social quietness of an islands one bird tweet a minute suburb is the answer to life.
But most come back, oh boy, do they mostly come back. However Not after moaning about Africa to everyone in every foreign land. I feel so sorry for foreigners, the whiney moaning ex africa continent dwellers can be hugely taxing im sure.
They mostly come back, because the Africa pulse is in their blood. The adventure of life is even in the soil. You can only watch the grass grow for so long in quiet island follow yhe lines solitude, i should imagine. If you wait long enough in some suburbs in Africa, a dude with a spade turns your grass into sods, and then sells them on your own street corner, right back to you, for a buck. A sort of Run away grass con, if you like, now thats a concept "watch the grass growers", They might just struggle to believe. The grass is even dynamic in Africa (This being a joke, i understand if its not at all funny for you. Having your well watered grass lifted is extremely traumatic)
As wildetects we are endeavouring to tap into this very wild energy drum beat with our wildetect style of architecture and furniture design. Which is not just a carbon copy of Scandinavian design ideas or an IKEA store mock room template. Which i also personally do love - However its not our interpretation of design style. Our designs are not completly Africa either. We look to Africa for our inspiration, however we interpret our own end products from the many influences around the world. A global village design inhluence approach really. I didnt say i was a purist, i have definetly aluded to the fact i am completely barking mad. Which means building with Lego means throwing in some Mercano elements.
The furniture is more an experiment towards a wildetect Africa fauvistic art design concept. I know its appeal is very limited - and that is what I enjoy the most. Once you’ve seen it however - you can’t really go back. Like those leaving the shores of the Africa continent for a life of 1 tweet solitude. Moaning a lot about every single thing. However they mostly come back eventually. To experience even for just 1 last time, the drum beat that realigns them to earth. It’s that in your face reality thats Africa. But maybe you will definetly just chose to stay watching the grass grow in your own peaceful expensive overseas lane, while listening to classical mood music. And thats ok as well. Then simply install a wildetect piece of art in that setting. Just to show your new neighbors your a little bit wild taxi edgy???
Tweet, pfffffft (btw pfffffft is the universal way the sound of grass growing is written) but you already knew that, looking out the window, right?
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