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POP UP EXHIBITION:  Salute to Ray and Charles Eames

Tuesday, November 8th – Monday, November 14th
FOFA Gallery York Corridor Vitrines

A pop up exhibition, an initiative of the FOFA Gallery and Undergraduate 3D Design Technologies class, featuring reconceptualizations of the infamous EAMES chairs.

For this project, Design Professor Martin Racine assigned his students to create a base for plastic chair shells, salvaged by FOFA Gallery Director jake moore. Those chair shells, bolted on metal structures and fixed to the floor have been in use for many years in amphitheatres at Concordia University. Some classrooms were recently dismantled during the re-configuration of new buildings, hence the intention to repurpose the furniture left behind.

Inspired by the DSR Chair, a famous chair model designed in the early 1950’s by two of the most innovative designers of the 20th century, Ray and Charles Eames, those shells are made in fiberglass, an extremely durable material that cannot be recycled. In line with the Design and Computation Arts’s

committment to sustainability, this project allowed students to better discover the original Eames concept and also gave them the occasion to give a new life to the salvaged furniture elements. Many students explored the CNC milling technology to shape the base in FSC certified Plywood, others took a more radical approach, flipping the chair upside down on a tubular structure or lowering the chair as in the Japanese tradition.

This exhibition presents the students' projects and the creative process that led to these special designs. A special thank you to the FOFA Gallery for presenting this unique expo saluting the original creation of Ray and Charles Eames.