LENA MORRIS Design that instinctively, intuitively, inuences you.
MUTUALISUM THE IDEA ; My side chair is a tribute to Bauhaus Functionalism, reducing the amount of objects to the minimum necessary, allowing the aesthetics to be driven by use. The chair tells a story of how objects are naturally re-purposed to accommodate easy living. Providing extra warmth and comfort, blankets, when not in use are often displayed over chairs. This habit has developed as we predominately use blankets when seated. Therefore blankets are stored where they are used. This behaviour enables the aesthetics of the chair to be changed frequently, washed and easily adapted.
THE DESIGN; The chair’s proportions intentionally encourage comfort. The seat is angled proportionally to both the back and floor, ensuring you are held in a position, which does not strain either the back or knees. Hooks can be found within reaching distance, so the blanket can be attached or removed with minimal effort. Coloured stitching helps you to understand the blankets orientation.
Design the method, by which I can communicate my imagination.
The piggyback stools are designed to be lightweight and easily carried. The dowel seat creates a strong linear pattern, which changes as the stools are stacked. The frames are CNC cut from plywood, The simple construction means the stools easy to assemble and suitable for flat-pack design.
PIGGY-BACK STOOLS
CLOTHES-PEG RAIL The clothes peg wardrobe is designed for generation rent. Ever increasing house prices are pushing the growth of rented accommodation.
Objects should reflect the way we live. My clothes rail is an adaptation of the wardrobe, breaking the object into it’s minimum elements. The design is inspired aesthetically and functionally by the versatility of clothes pegs.
Made of five beams, the clothespeg rail can be flat packed and easily carried to each new home. Super strength magnets, hidden in the beams, effortlessly hold the simple structure in place.
OLENT Smell is an abstract, invisible and wearable sculpture independently open to interpretation. For some, perfume creates an olfactory distance between two people. Wearing a fragrance immerses the person, creating an invisible barrier between the individual and outside stimulation. For others, it becomes a subconscious insight into the personality of the wearer. By wearing a scent, you project and communicate your identity directly into the olfactory system of strangers. Whether bespoke or generic, perfume is an invisible, identifiable attire.
Olent, meaning scented, is a redesign of fragrance interaction. The ceramic, scent infused necklace carries fragrance away from the skin to retain the clarity of the perfume.
HOW TO ENSURE THAT EVEN THE LAST DROP OF PERFUME IS ABSORBED ?
HOW DOES THE GLAZE ALTER YOUR INTERACTION ?
The bottles’ interior follows the necklace’s form .This allows for the pieces to sit within each-other and absorb the last drops of perfume.
People prefer to touch the glazed area of the ceramic due to the smooth glassy surface. Therefore the glaze can be purposefully applied to alter interaction.
HOW DOES THE SHAPE ALTER PERFUME ABSORPTION ?
WHERE CAN THE CHAIN BE STORED, WITHIN THE PERFUME BOTTLE ?
The larger the surface area the more perfume absorbed. Creating a form with an open surface enhances the effectiveness of the perfume
The perfume bottle acts as a jewellery box so that the chain and necklace can be stored together.
THE IDEA ; Each perfume is constructed by composing an intricate balance of different notes. The top notes, typically sweeter, are detected instantly and fade fastest. Whereas the musky base notes take longer to develop. When perfume is worn directly on the skin, perspiration and movement disrupt this delicate composition. Some perfumes do not sit on the skin long enough for the base notes to develop. My initial research indicates that perfume, when applied to hair or clothes lasts longer then applied directly to skin. Further investigations showed that ceramics absorb scent without disrupting the composition and retain the fragrance for over a week.