THE OUTRIGGER
In this blog I show some images of the bed I designed and built with beautiful tasmanian oak. The inspiration was a little outrigger boat that my sister gave to me when we sailed in Fiji some 10 years ago or so. Bula! Guillermo
Furniture: King size bed built with Tasmanian oak.
Organic cotton matters and linen.
Design inspiration: Fijian traditional Outrigger boat.
The bed is a king size and the outriggers became discrete shelving units.
In this blogpost it seems appropriate to bring some of the great Georges Perec’s reflections from “Species of Spaces and other pieces”... the one titled: The Bed.
and continues:“ We spend more than a third of our lives in bed. The bed is one of the rare places where we adopt roughly speaking a horizontal posture. The others are much more specialised: operating table, bench in a sauna, chaise-langue, beach, psychoanalyst couch ....Techniques of sleeping: the idea of lying down is something natural is quite inaccurate.”
“And what about hammocks? And paliasses? And bedsteads? And box-beds? And divanes deep as the grave? And straw pallets? And read way couchettes? And camp beds? And sleeping-bags resting on air-beds themselves resting on a carpet of earth?Georges Perec, Espèces d'espaces 1974
©Guillermo Aranda-Mena 2019
