Exhibition in Galerie Haute Définition, Passage du Grand Cerf, Paris / Idée Shop, Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan.

 

Ever since I have been designing furniture, objects ans spaces, I have always used the same three constructive elements:

 

The plane, mainly as a support

The curve, for its natural beauty and its ergonomics

The hollow for its emptiness, which attracts a passage through

 

During the research phase of "Une Forme, One Shape", I tried to free my mind of all archetypes and concentrate on designing a form which seems to me a harmonious synthesis of those three basic constructive elements and which opens up a myriad of possibilities.

 

Once I'd found that form, it became a simple game to come up with variations. Sit on a ring ? Walk through a serviette ring ? Nothing could be easier ! By simply adjusting its size and its material, the Form lends itself to all kind of uses.. from a piece of jewellery... it becomes a tray... a seat... a passage...

 

Be in good Shape !

 

There have been some masters characteristics shapes, or somebody's favourite shape in Japan. There is Rikyu Gonomi - an old tea master favourite taste. Here is Marie Christine Dorner's Shape, which is not only het favourite Forme, but more like herself. This shape will live as her style.

 

Teruo Kurosaki