Arif Özden is one of the group of designers that over the past decade has worked with Derin Design to formulate this companies unique design ethos. His work can be characterized by a simple yet stark geometry that is a peculiar synergy of eastern and western abstraction that is a hallmark of Derin Design’s approach to furniture. Özden’s contribution to Derin has been his formulation of this modular geometry balanced with practical concerns and poetic forms. These qualities can be seen in his Marti (Seagull) chair which uses as a reference the organic shape of a seagull in flight echoed in the light undulating shape of the seat of this white chair. In contrast to the poetic natural symbolism of Marti, the A1 stackable lacquered chairs are quite the opposite exhibiting a practicality and modularity reinforced by the reference to the basic implied by the title of the chair’s reference of the alphabet and numbers, A and 1 . As a further nuance the rationalism of the multicolour A1is warped slightly by its heavy low slung shape and wide seat which however much is rational in its clear orthogonality also hints at a latent emergence of a more basic and archaic way of sitting. This mode of abstraction combining rationalist and the intuitive application of autocthnous geometries is a characteristic of much of the work of design form Turkey that emerged in the 1990s. Özden like many of his peers combines work in industrial design with interior and exhibition design.

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Biography

1966 Istanbul
Resides: Istanbul
Education: Industrial Product Design, Marmara University, Istanbul
Works for: Derin, Polo Garage, Vestel-Turkey

Biyografi

1966 İstanbul
Bulunduğu yer: İstanbul
Eğitim: Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı, Marmara Üniversitesi, İstanbul
Referanslar: Derin, Polo Garage, Vestel