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Furthermore, the chair is used as a symbol of status. Victor joked, "My favourite [sic] is an Italian chair that has knife blades and pointed hooks forming the seat."6 Both the Swivel Work Chair (4) and the Chaise Lounge Chair (5) were designed in the 1930's, yet they continue to symbolize "work" and "leisure," respectively. Victor's students designed a do-it-yourself chair for low-income tenants in a Missouri high-rise development. (6) Although the design was catered to fit the tenants' needs, the tenants felt the aesthetics of the chair to be ugly and would have preferred a more sophisticated "normalcy".7 Thus the design failed its symbolized use. More successfully, another team designed a radio in 1962 for people in Indonesia with reception to only one broadcast station.(7) It is powered by paper, wax, or dried cow dung and costs 9 cents.8 Each owner of the radio decorated it uniquely, adding a delicate beauty to the recycled materials of this communication device. METHOD Method is the means in which the object comes to fruition. While apprenticing to Frank Lloyd Wright, Victor acquired a life-long respect for his ideas about nature and wrote of him often in his books. Although he did not mention this particular example, FLW's Johnson Wax Building (1936-1939) is a wonderful |
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