Furniture Designer James Shaw On The Unconventional Beauty Of His Surreal, Colourful Objects
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2021
- Over the past few months, we’ve been celebrating the wonderful art of craftsmanship by visiting the creative spaces of a handful of artisans in our film series Modern Makers. So far, we’ve discovered the work of a glassblower, a ceramicist, a woodworker and a tapestry weaver. Concluding the series is this episode, in which we spend some time with the furniture designer James Shaw at his workshop in Southwark, south-east London.
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Whimsical art!
these are gorgeous. I love that the inherent design aesthetic and curation that TMH does so well is expanding beyond the maximal sizes of houses and into more small, intimate moments like the work he's putting out. Still gorgeously shot and thought provoking, so all in all, this video is giving me everything I could want! Love it!
Some strong opinions here. I liked seeing the legs being levelled for the bowl, a little order amongst the chaos.
I love these, so cheerful and fun!
Amazing artist. This is so beautiful and cool, I want to get one of those candle holders
This is incredible... extremely NEW...💗
Soooo beautiful.
Very beautiful
Does anyone know what color powder he’s using here?
James Shaw...in 2022? He's been doing his graduation project for a decade now.
That plastic looks pretty new to me
Since when did making candlesticks and bowls become "Furniture Design"?
Exactly what I was thinking too.
Me also...
Those are the ugliest things I have ever seen.
That's all fine and good, as long as it's statisfying for him but are people paying actual money for this? Can he make a living with only sellig those objects?
This is what is great about design and art - he’s making these for a select group of people that respond to it and enjoy his art, and it’s okay that you are not one of those people. He’s clearly running a business, if you’re questioning whether this is lucrative
@Spanish John I thought he said it was plastic
@@FixYourLighting It's absolutely not good, that I'm not one of those people, I made Art for years, practicing and studying hard without being able to make any money out of it, it's like being hit in the stomach, seeing someone dabling around like a child with plastic and being lucrative (still an assumption). Without money, you have nothing, unless you live in your parents basement of course or together with five flatmates. Insane, that adult people are still discussing the importance of financal freedom, not everyone can be a artsy, homless rebell, you know?
@@macheifach I’m sorry that you weren’t able to make money from your art, but I hope it brought you joy and fulfillment to make your art, regardless. Some people are able to find support structures in their lives that enable them to focus on making art, even if they aren’t selling it. I don’t think that makes them childish, I think it is an adult act to build a life that enables you to balance what you want to do that you enjoy with what you have to do to make money. Some people are privileged enough to not have to make that choice, and life isn’t fair in that way, but that’s a fact we all live with.
@@FixYourLighting In the end, it pissed me off so much, that I left Art for good and no, making money isn't fun and never will be, we try to make money to buy ourselves free from the misery and the soul sucking grind in the salary slavery, so we can own our life time instead of selling it, in the best case, before we get destroyed beyond repair and die inside.
When I see, how much effort I put into Art and then see people like him, effortlessly doing random sculptures, It feels like mockery and a gruesome taunt. Anyway, doesn't matter now.
I wish he would use another material or at least recycled plastic.
He said he is using scrap plastic or recycled plastic.
caues there is not enough plastic in the world... indeed, beautiful and a great artist. but why plastic!?!?
He said its scrap/recycled plastic.
Furniture designer my A$$.
design?? what a bS this is!!!
design is more than clean lines and expensive materials , absolutely not bs it just isn't ur cup of tea so move on
I just went to buy something and everything's sold out, doesn't seem like bs to me hun
@@angelwitprblmz It is bs, because people want forcefully to have art, that is hard to categorize, they don't genuinely reflect on what really appeals to them but want to set themselves and their taste apart, that's usually the main goal here. It's not en vogue and in the spirit of our time to like really well thought through proportions and designs that came from decades of work and training and experience, how lame, right? So, let's buy plastic garbage and present it in the middle of your flat, so guests can ask you about it and you can say in phoney proudness, that it's from an upcoming artists, who makes adventureous sculptures out of plastic and how the thought about our environment is woven into his work blahblah.
@@macheifach or it's just fun and not everything has to be serious and sterile to have meaning. the world is in shambles and things like this kind of work can offer a sense of playfulness and childishness that feels refreshing. I agree trying to give it a deeper meaning can feel pretentious but uhhhhhh all art is pretentious. just like what you like and let others like what they like, being the Most Educated in a youtube comment section only gets you so far
@@angelwitprblmz Ok, with this point "it can be just fun" I can agree.