Wildetecture design ideals fits into the typical African artists wild ideas category, The architectural designs and furniture wildetecture is exploring is a style of wild African fauvistic design. A conceptual of the intensity of living on such a vibrant, energetic, at times wild continent.
The wildetect furniture range is really immediacy towards an end product - 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 ideas to absolute dust and nothing. The end product is sadly always a 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 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 chairs are a moment to sit and relax and giggle and childishly implode as we juxtapose our very serious adult lives. a childish zone if you like, discussing the bizarre merits or demerits of a crazy wildly colorful furniture piece, a type of adult den, to 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 whilst I sit in it. Bringing in the child like mindset within the adult environment through color, form and playfulness. Well thats the idea, 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 mind they haven't really understood the deep African age old highways and byways, the back roads and the far off living spaces deep off the beaten track. I have experienced this hospitality personally, and the kindness is incredible. You just go knock on a suburban New York homes door. 85% 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 african landscape, nobody speaking english even, hospitality you will receive 85% of the time. Thats a fact. So whats wild and whats not i ask you?
Most try to compare and dare i say, try to westernise Africa, Picasso is one of the rare artists who tapped into the very heartbeat and drum beat of an African continent. 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. That type of experience for me, is a type of wild punk. (did i just make a comparison, oh tut tut) Just visit any African city from Cape to Cairo and tell me if its all quiet classical music and afternoon tea and second breakfasts? Well second and third breakfasts definetly.
To my limited mind Its more wild 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, to head for the social quietness of a islands one bird tweet a minute suburb.
But most do come back, oh boy, do they come back. However Not after moaning about africa to everyone in every foreign land. I feel so sorry for foreigners, the whiney moaning ex african continent dwellers can be hugely taxing.
They 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 solitude, i think. If you wait long enough in some African suburbs, a dude with a spade turns your grass into sods, and then sells them on your own street corner, back to you, for a buck. A sort of Run away grass con, if you like, now thats a concept "watch the grass growers", might just struggle to believe.
As wildetects we are endeavouring to tap into this very wild energy drum beat with our wildetect style of furniture design. which is not a carbon copy of Scandinavian design ideas or an IKEA store mock room template. which i do love - however its not our interpretation of design. Our designs are not completly Africa either. we look to Africa for our inspiration, however we interpret our own end product from the many influences around yhe world. A global village design approach really. I didnt say i was a purist, i have aluded to the fact i am completely barking mad.
The furniture is more an experiment towards a wildetect African fauvistic 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 leaving the African continent, one moans a lot, but they all come back eventually. It’s that in your face. But maybe you will definetly chose to just stay watching the grass grow in your own peaceful expensive lane, while listening to classical mood music. And thats ok as well.
Tweet, pfffft ( btw pfffft is the universal way the sound of grass growing is written) but you already knew that, right.
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