Bulb Table

 

 

 

I found an Irish designer Joseph Walsh who mostly designs items with wood. Joseph Walsh opened his studio and workshop in 1999 Co. Cork, Ireland. He is a self-taught designer. The way he makes designs from wood looks beautiful but it does not really look functional. In his artworks there is high level of professionalism, but by looking at his designed furniture’s, they are not comfortable. The pieces that he used to create a design follow a different path unlike the classical furniture that we use today. He composes elasticity of the material, such as most of the chairs that he designed look like they are doing some kind of yoga positions.

                                                                

 

The materials that he used are native yew and olive ash and it is covered by white oil and lacquer. He stripes the wood into thin layers and reconstructing it into a composition.

One of his designed furniture that I want to talk about is this round table with its’ ten chairs. First of all I am going to argue that there would not feet ten people, because the table is too small for ten people to be sitting and eating a dinner.

I will start from the design of the chair, because that is one of the most important things that need to be convenient when you are having your rest. I do not imagine putting my back on those chairs, because they are so thin and they would probably hurt your shoulders and put you in pain. So this is something for sure that I would not recommend anyone to buy.

The table has a big hole in the middle of it, where a big vase has taken a place. If that is a vase for fresh flowers in the middle, how would I change the water? By looking closely on his designed table and vase there is not any way to be able to change the water of a vase. This  would be a wasting of money if I were to by this furniture, because no one would like to have something in his/her house that would not do its’ job. The vase is taking too much space and if you have to make a dinner for your guest you are going to need more room for the food to put on the table, especially I am coming from Armenian family and we love to have different types of meals and dishes whenever we are having guest over to our house. There is another concern comes up about this cool design. Where people are going to feet their legs? The bottom of a table is designed like it is a garlic. It is too big and people have to put their legs somewhere else, bedsides underneath of the table. I would prefer to improve the design by making something simple to hold the table.

 Source:  Joseph Walsh Studio 2011