Monday, July 25, 2016

headline.browser-titleMaterial Tendencies: Jaime Hayon

Architonic spoke to the Spanish designer and artist, who likes to follow his intuition and enjoys doing whatever feels right. <b>If you had to restrict yourself to working with just one material for the next three years, which one would you choose?</b> It would be hard to say. I guess with wood I would be able to do a lot of things. But one material that I’ve always loved is ceramic. Because it can be used in different processes and in many possible combinations. Its characteristics can have so many aspects. It can be poor but super elegant. It can be extremely glossy and very rich, even though it always comes from the same sort of earthenware. It is at the same time a very basic and high-quality material. So yes, I would probably choose ceramic as the first one. <b>At what point within the design process do you decide in favour of a specific material? What comes first – the shape or the choice of material?</b> None of those, actually. Neither shape nor material. At the end, t



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