Weekend work
Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 2:33PM It is sometimes such a pleasure and even seems a luxury to have a full weekend day when I can work in the studio without any interruptions other than taking breaks when my focus wavers or I realize that I haven't eaten in too many hours. Today I'm designing and rendering Glasgow cabinetry series examples on the computer. I've made time in the evenings these last few weeks to read essays on the history, theory, and critical analysis of American art, craft, and design between 1920 and 1945, the period from which the inspiration for the Glasgow series springs. It's been awhile since I've done much of that kind of research. Even with the current interest in "mid century modern" design, what happened between artisanal craft and industrial design during those years is still widely under appreciated and misunderstood. I find some interesting parallels between that time and now, and the study is definitely influencing my work. Not, I hope, in an historicist way although certainly informed by history, but through a deeper investigation into the relationship between craft and modern industrial technologies and production, and what it suggests to me relative to form. Along with what's happening in the development of this cabinetry design, the work that Wayne Ritchie and I are doing on a rigorously designed and executed pipe case for my friend Neill Roan, is nearing completion and has also benefitted from this intensified thinking about the impact of technology on craft.
283 seven day set case, computer rendered study, copyright 2012 Scott A. Stultz
pipes by Rad Davis, Will Purdy, and Adam Davidson, 2B graphite and Derwent Inktense pencils
Reader Comments (1)
I have been wanting a stove like that. As for the rendering here, I like the design. Crisp and clean. Stlil not my favorite, but great work.