We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Natalie Musorina about their original and creative Rocking chair design work. Natalie Musorina is an award-winning industrial designer, that makes our world a better place with their original rocking chair works.
Natalie Musorina ("NM") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Torsion Rocking chair. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
NM : This chair was created under impression of wonderful sculptures of Naum Gabo. As his works it is investigation and manipulation of space and also an eye-catching object, like a sculpture.The chair induces to explore it, look at it from every side and through it. But furthermore, it also has a function and can be used in everyday life with a great comfort.
NM : During work on the chair I was concentrated on the principles for minimum-weight design. I wanted to create construction which would be able to sustain a weght of sitting person but at the same time would look imponderable and requires a minimum quantity of material.
NM : About half a year.
NM : I would like to sell or lease the production rights.
NM : Since I saw Naum Gabo's sculpture "Linear Construction No. 2" I could not to make away with desire to create a chair in similar style. So the chair "Torsion" is an incarnation of such desire.
NM : During designing I also studied Santiago Calatrava's bridges. I think, it also influenced the chair.
NM : I suppose it is upper middle class consumers.
NM : In the the last century there was a theory about special kind of physical field called "torsion" which is created by space rotation. This theory was recognized as untenable and pseudoscientific, but I thought that the form of the chair is also created as a space rotation in some way although there are no Maxwell's equations so it should be interesting to name the chair like it.
NM : I think it is the form of the frame.
NM : I did everything by myself.
NM : I do not think there is a new technology. But I used some geometrical concepts while designing the form of surface, if it is matter.
NM : The main creative challenge was to find the right proportions of frame. There was so many things should be taken into account like the average man's knee high, the average distance from the seat and waist of sitting person and so on. And because all parts of the chair depend on each other it was difficult but also interesting to find the optimal decision to bring to conformity with all that factors.
