- Title
Fernando Chair
- Artist
- Julian Mayor
Julian Mayor’s “Fernando Chair” brings digital design and hand fabrication together in mirror polished stainless steel. The chair deliberately unsettles the boundary between functional furniture and autonomous sculpture.
British artist and designer Julian Mayor has combined computer based design with hand fabrication since his studies at the Royal College of Art. His objects are first modelled digitally, then translated into three dimensional structures by welding cut metal planes together in the studio. The process keeps industrial precision and the evidence of hand making within the same object, producing a sculptural language that refuses to define design purely through function.
“Fernando Chair” is formed from triangular planes of mirror polished stainless steel. Its fractured geometry can read almost like a crystalline mass from a distance, while the reflective surface pulls the surrounding room into the work itself. The body of the sitter, nearby architecture and changing light become part of an image that never fully settles. Rather than resolving the distinction between art and design, “Fernando Chair” keeps that question physically present.
