A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.
Interpretation
Design should be aesthetically pleasing from every perspective.
This quote by Hans Wegner emphasizes the importance of beauty in design, suggesting that an object, such as a chair, should not only serve its functional purpose but also possess aesthetic appeal from every angle. It encourages designers and creators to consider the entirety of an object's appearance, advocating for a holistic approach to beauty in functional items.
In practice
During a design presentation, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of aesthetic value.
Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest.
The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.
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Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.
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