Biomorphism
バイオモーフィズム／有機的形態 / 1930s–1960s / ongoing / Style / Modern Architecture
Extends asymmetric, continuous forms suggesting cells, bones, organs and plants into abstraction, furniture, vessels and space.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Asymmetric curves
- Cell-like forms
- Smooth continuous surfaces
- Abstraction from nature
Best used for
- Furniture and vessels shaped by curves that follow the hand and body
- Placing one softening element inside a hard rectilinear space
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Choose letterforms without corners and set them along the contour
- Composition
- Avoid symmetry and close the outline as one continuous line
- Material
- Moulded plywood or resin, plaster, polished wood, joints blended into curves
- Caution
- Adding curves without measuring against the body leaves nothing the hand can confirm, and the object is merely round.
- Further study
- Russel Wright / Isamu Noguchi / organic form
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- Art Nouveau (アール・ヌーヴォー)Shared effects: Intimacy.Compare Biomorphism and Art Nouveau
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