CORIAN® AUCTION. MORE THAN 50 PRODUCTS AND INSTALLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL DESIGN |
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Gamze Guven (Tasarim Ussu) / Loqum / 2007 / for CORIAN®: 40 Years - 40 Designers |
The "Loqum" Turkish Delight Bowl is questioning the
meaning of a traditional product made of opal glass, by
considering the qualities of another opal material:
Corian®. “Turkish delight” emerged in Anatolia in XV
century and it was introduced all over the world by an
English traveller in XVIII century. Louis XV, king of
France, ordered his craftsmen a special container design
for Turkish delight and he sent this gift to the Ottoman
Emperor Abdulhamid I . Since then this design became a
norm. I think designers were influenced from “clove”
flower, which was typical in Turkish designs. It was the
flower of love as it is a very strong aphrodisiac. Surprising
similarity, Turkish delights wrapped in lace handkerchiefs
was also a symbol, where couples exchanged them as
tokens of love.
“Turkish delight bowl” form is reinterpreted by a modern
material: Corian®. I’ve tried to symbolize the symbolic
clove flower and subtracted it by carving its mass from the
330x330x42 mm square prism. So, the final negative:
female form is being produced. These carved surfaces are
symbolizing the uncut, soft stripes of Turkish delight, as
well as the petals of the clove. These stripes look random
but, as in nature, there is a mathematical order behind.
This carving process was made by CNC tooling on pieces
of Corian®. So it became possible to have the different
color contour next to the periphery, by having a different
color Corian® sheet at the second layer. |
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