Name: Dragor Kre Chair
Brand: Alun Heslop
Price: 35000.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Designed by Alun Heslop

Dragon Kre is a bold statement piece and commands attention. Visually dynamic, predatory in stance yet comfortable in use, Kre takes design, art and functional ergonomic performance to a whole new level. Sit within and take a journey to another dimension.

Inspired by many different co-existing levels, animalistic yet fluid, through a curve line in a journey transition made to fit the human form.

Dragon Kre is a unique foundry cast and patinated bronze sculptural chair work with the sublime semi-translucent effect of the mottled patina – the skin of the Dragon, accentuated highlights and the glint of polished bronze shining through.

It has been hollow cast using the ‘lost-wax’ process, based on the original carved wooden template form designed and sculpted by Alun Heslop.

Why the dragon?

This chair is not fire breathing although it most certainly is forged by fire and is almost creature like in its form and its foreboding sense of scale. It is not a piece for the faint hearted and it is not a small chair in terms of size or weight. At approximately 100kg perhaps not as heavy as you may at first think for a cast metal chair of this volume due to the lost wax foundry production with semi hollow voids within the body of the piece.

Technical Data

Material: Derived from an original wooden carved and sculpted template form. Foundry cast bronze using lost wax process, hollow cast with acid etch patina

Dimensions: W 90 x D 85 x H 145 cm

Weight: 100 kg

Slight variations and imperfections may apply due to a handmade production process. At OWN, we stand by these artistic choices and do not accept returns related to these intentional imperfections such as irregularities in stone or ceramics, patina on metal surfaces, wood cracking and more.

Features

Design Year: 2016

Handmade in The UK

Images by Alun Heslop

Edition

One-of-a-kind
(Certificate of authenticity)

About the artist

Alun Heslop is a U.K. based artist, designer and maker primarily specialising in the creation of unique and exceptional sculptural chairs and seating, having initially studied Spatial design at Rochester KIAD and Fine Arts at Brighton University in the U.K. He became fascinated with the use of wood as a prime structural medium, shaping and carving and honed his skills and craftsmanship in the process of ‘green woodworking’. From that point his passion for the chair as an expression of an art form developed, exploring other materiality in making and pushing the boundaries of how new works could exist where its aesthetical appeal generates an expression that is far more than the sum of its parts would otherwise suggest.

Alun Heslop