{"id":3720,"date":"2010-06-21T17:41:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2010-06-21T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T15:41:43","slug":"human-furniture-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/21\/human-furniture-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Furniture Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"strange furniture photos\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.dornob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/strange-furniture-photos.jpg\" alt=\"strange furniture photos\" width=\"421\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p><ins><ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Anthropomorphic design is nothing new, but these furniture objects are quite literally made of people. A cross between art photography,performance artand\u00a0home furniture\u00a0design, these strange shots show us a surreal artistic perspective on everyday household objects. These photographs may not be safe for work \u2026 nor are the creations they depict safe, and they do not really work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"strange human furniture\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.dornob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/strange-human-furniture.jpg\" alt=\"strange human furniture\" width=\"421\" height=\"516\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From stacked human shelves to place settings set on structural bodies, arched figures holding entertainment systems to a lamp-headed person, these images shot by photographer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.furniturestoreblog.com\/2009\/04\/14\/human_furniture_photography_exhibit_by_david_blazquez.html\">David Blazquez<\/a> feel almost uncomfortably raw and personal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"strange furniture photography\" src=\"http:\/\/dornob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/strange-furniture-photography.jpg\" alt=\"strange furniture photography\" width=\"421\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The feeling of discomfort is augmented, of course, by the nudity of the posed figures \u2013 but is also tied to the surreal depictions of familiar forms. The composite \u2018people furniture\u2019 seems at once stable and solid yet also simultaneously soft and poised to collapse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sexual human furniture\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.dornob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sexual-human-furniture.jpg\" alt=\"sexual human furniture\" width=\"421\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p><ins><ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Sensual or sexist? Simplistic or sublime? It is said of the best and most controversial artists in history that they were masters of their craft before they broke away from mainstream techniques, materials or approaches. Likewise,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.p-rolfe.co.uk\/Gener%20I-.html\">Peter Rolfe<\/a> did not simply start by making suggestive and erotic pieces of furniture \u2013 he began by becoming a master of fine wood furniture design and construction.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sexual human furniture set\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.dornob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sexual-human-furniture-set.jpg\" alt=\"sexual human furniture set\" width=\"421\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These forms may come as a shock to moral sensibilities \u2013 or might not, depending upon the cultural context of the viewer. Either way, however, the layered, carved and polished wooden forms are incredibly well-made despite the complexities involved with having opening and closing doors, drawers and other moving elements.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sexual human furniture cabinet\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.dornob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sexual-human-furniture-cabinet.jpg\" alt=\"sexual human furniture cabinet\" width=\"421\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whether sublime, sexy or something else entirely, each part is carved with incredible delicacy and precision \u2013 from the human forms themselves to the props with which they interact \u2013 such as the supporting object above designed to look the part of an remarkably life-like cloth draped over a dresser.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sexual human furniture male\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.dornob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sexual-human-furniture-male.jpg\" alt=\"sexual human furniture male\" width=\"421\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before you begin to wonder whether this work is more sexist than sexual, it is worth noting that he has crafted male forms as well as female ones.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sexual human furniture female\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.dornob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sexual-human-furniture-female.jpg\" alt=\"sexual human furniture female\" width=\"421\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Still, some of the women are modeled with arguably unrealistically \u2018perfect\u2019 curves by societal standards \u2013 and the locations of some of the drawer openingsand storage spaces do leave open questions about just how erotic these pieces truly are. But perhaps that is their purpose, or at least part of the point: to create conversations, spark controversy and question our avoidance of sexually suggestive forms in contemporary furniture design.<\/p>\n<h5>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/dornob.com\/strange-human-furniture-photos-not-safe-nor-work\/\">dornob<\/a>)<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropomorphic design is nothing new, but these furniture objects are quite literally made of people. A cross between art photography,performance artand\u00a0home furniture\u00a0design, these strange shots show us a surreal artistic perspective on everyday household objects. These photographs may not be safe for work \u2026 nor are the creations they depict safe, and they do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[35,163],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-photo","tag-art","tag-dornob"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}