Figures — chair, Pradier-Jeauneau

Figures collection is an exploration of the links between design and literature inspired by a linguistic process: figures of speech. The primary function of figures of speech is to give more expressiveness and liveliness to language: Animate, substitute, oppose, emphasize, attenuate…

If this process gives the text its literary dimension, can it give the design its artistic dimesion? Can language be a designer’s raw material?

Figures chair is inspired by the figure of speech of the ellipse.