Hasta La Ideas

pimg alt=”hallmfg2.jpg” src=”http://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/hallmfg2.jpg” width=”468″ height=”391″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //p

pAndy Hall, of a href=”http://hallmfg.blogspot.com/”HallMfg/a in Chicago, has produced a set of a href=”http://hallmfg.blogspot.com/2010/01/24-hour-chairs-122-213-220-s-wabash.html”24 chairs in 24 non-consecutive hours/a (full set pictured after the jump) in an empty retail space in Chicago’s Loop, provided by the a href=”http://www.popupartloop.com/”Chicago Loop Alliance/a. The chairs were made from a collection of salvaged building material donated by the a href=”http://www.rebuildingexchange.org/”Rebuilding Exchange/a. /p

div style=”align: right;”img src=”http://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/2010/03/hall09.jpg” width=”468″ height=”491″ alt=”hall09.jpg”//div

pThis project shares a conceptual space with Martino Gamper’s 100 chairs project, in that the designer is constrained by time and materials in the production of furniture. Unlike Martino, Andy uses this format to explore a translation from drawing to productionmdash;the profile of each chair was drawn at scale on a four foot square sheet of paper, guiding and facilitating his hour of construction. /p

pimg alt=”hall-drawing.jpg” src=”http://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/hall-drawing.jpg” width=”468″ height=”237″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/hallmfg_24_chairs_in_24_hours__16198.asp”(more…)/a
pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/63jUCH0F6tbSDgFPwji5D3wTtAo/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/63jUCH0F6tbSDgFPwji5D3wTtAo/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/
a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/63jUCH0F6tbSDgFPwji5D3wTtAo/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/63jUCH0F6tbSDgFPwji5D3wTtAo/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/p