rotten42 Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 OK...what's the deal with the Barcelona chair and people who render? I swear every 3rd office render I see has one in it. I compare it to guitar players and "Stairway to heaven". Every guitar player knows it but wouldn't dare play it in public for fear of persecution. This place should become a "No Barcelona chair" zone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neko Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 that's funny stuff.... i teach a 3d modeling/rendering course where all the students have to model the entire barcelona pavilion and merge in the furniture. i'm considering moving on to the farnsworth house, but that has the barcelona chairs too. hopefully you'll never need to take this course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbowers Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 It happens to be a very beautiful piece of furniture but i agree that it's way over-used. It is very uncomfortable to sit in (unless you sit two of them side-by-side and lay down, i've done this) It's really more of a architectural/fashion statement now more than anything. They are still massively expensive....http://www.dwr.com/productdetail.cfm?id=7200 ($4000!!!!!!) But nonetheless impressive as are much of the classic works of furniture design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotten42 Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 ya..I know. I've sold the chairs before in my job. I'm just poking fun at how iconic is seems to be with render people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Eloy Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I wouldn't say it's iconic only with 3D peeps... I knoe a bunch of designers that throw one of those in everytime they have no idea what to do...LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edub Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I think the Barcelona Chair is awesome - what if we lived in a world where everyone put beanbags in their renderings? - I mean, how easy is it to model one of those? - make a cube, sub-d it a couple times, tweak some points, drop it in a hyperNURB, and your golden! but yeah, I know what you mean - but seriously, makes you wonder what makes it so appealing, doesn't it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deevee84 Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 would most ppl outside the architectural/design world know how iconic this piece of furniture is? or who designed it? or even know how much an original would cost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfa2 Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 would most ppl outside the architectural/design world know how iconic this piece of furniture is? or who designed it? or even know how much an original would cost? I think you have a point. I was with my brother (who doesn't do any arch vis or anything architectural for that matter) and we saw one of these chairs and he didn't think much of it and for some reason I had this same exact discussion with him. About how much it gets used in renderings...he had no clue though. I'm pretty sure we're just so close to the situation but others are generally oblivious to it. The overuse is still a very valid point and whenever I'm not given specific furniture direction, I make sure and NOT put these chairs in. Years ago my old boss used to make me put this particular white Porsche in every rendering I did...it really bugged me for the same reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneis Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 It happens to be a very beautiful piece of furniture but i agree that it's way over-used. It is very uncomfortable to sit in (unless you sit two of them side-by-side and lay down, i've done this) It's really more of a architectural/fashion statement now more than anything. They are still massively expensive... ($4000!!!!!!) But nonetheless impressive as are much of the classic works of furniture design. I went through an Industrial Design degree seeing hundreds of "classic" chair designs. I came up with the following prerequisites for a chair to be considered a "Classic"... 1. No-one has made a chair that looks the same (even if there was a good reason for that!) 2. It must look beautiful, yet be uncomfortable 3. If it cant look beautiful, it may then be comfortable 4. It must be ridiculously expensive 5. The owner of the chair likes rules #2 & #3. This is because of rule #4 - they don't want you sitting on it in the first place. 6. Irregardless of how "Classic" the chair is, it will never be as well known as the ultimate "Classic" chair... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAWUK Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 and as these things go Redcube has posted a finished image with......yes you guessed it Barcelona chairs Wouldnt mind been able to afford one though and the right type of house to put it in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richmondlu Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I think it is this way because it is the easiest chair to find for download or to model seems how one of the first tutorials i ever did for max was to model the chair. I just think it is the number of the 3d chairs out there. Honestly how many people model every piece of furniture in their scenes? this chair is over used as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotten42 Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 I went through an Industrial Design degree seeing hundreds of "classic" chair designs. I came up with the following prerequisites for a chair to be considered a "Classic"... 1. No-one has made a chair that looks the same (even if there was a good reason for that!) 2. It must look beautiful, yet be uncomfortable 3. If it cant look beautiful, it may then be comfortable 4. It must be ridiculously expensive 5. The owner of the chair likes rules #2 & #3. This is because of rule #4 - they don't want you sitting on it in the first place. 6. Irregardless of how "Classic" the chair is, it will never be as well known as the ultimate "Classic" chair... now that's funny! You understand my post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Thomas Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 My abiding memory of a university field trip to Barcelona is falling asleep in one of these chairs in Mies's Barcelona Pavilion while trying to escape the sunshine, as the glare off that white travertine was doing nothing for my hangover! Very comfortable if I remember correctly.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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