We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Simone Valsecchi about their original and creative Chair design work. Simone Valsecchi is an award-winning industrial designer, that makes our world a better place with their original chair works.
Simone Valsecchi ("SV") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Zip-up chair Chair. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
SV : the main idea for this design was to create an eyecatching chair to feel also comfortable,funny and colourful taking inspiration from such a simple and everyday using object as the zipper.
SV : The main focus was to put the zipper in armony with the design of the chair and make people feel as if they could "wear it" as if it was a dress.
SV : I have no plans for the moment;just want to finish my design studies.
SV : It took me almost a month and a half but has been a period of such intense researches,brainstorming,design thinking and developing;it has been like a longer and more intensive university workshop.
SV : I've been suggested to design a chair and i liked the idea very much because i never did it before so i started working hard on the developement of some ideas.
SV : I'm just keeping it as a design possibility for the future but at the moment I prefer to give precedence to my design studies.
SV : I developed several ideas for the design of a chair and then I chose the one that was feeling better with the main target I was giving to my research.
SV : I've been visiting salone del mobile all the exhibition long in order to take contact with contemporary design trends so maybe they are a lot but i cannot tell with precision.
SV : I think it would be a person that sometimes likes to see things with the eyes of a child.The design of the chair wants to pick people's curiosity, which is the principle characteristic of children's behaviour.
SV : It think it is the zipper itself which gives the design a particular and gamesome feature.
SV : The chair is this time designed not only to be sit on but makes the user in the condition to make some further moovementes so I decided to link this with the name of the chair.
SV : I think that the most unique aspect of this design stands in the zipper system which wants to be the most eyecatching feature of the chair.
SV : Most of the research i made was to try to feel what does contemporary design mean to people;why should they be interested in it and what should push them supporting it and passionating in it.
