Initial Design - Explained.

This post is a response to the following post.
http://gabrielchecuti.blogspot.com/2012/12/library-chair-crossover-another-idea.html

I wanted to 'decipher' or rather explain how I reached such as design from my research.
I decided to first analyse the subject of Macabre, in particular, between two separate cultures that have their own unique views on the subject.

Medieval Period, the origins of 'Danse Macabre'.
As previously discussed, the skeletal figures were painted in such a way that they should be feared, or inspire dread in the viewer. The rotting skin tones and defined anatomy support this.

Overall response from said culture, Negative.

Aztec/South American culture, 'Calavera' or 'El dia de los Muertos'
Again as mentioned, bursting with colour, rounded shapes, more comical rather than anatomical, also, floral patterns are heavily emphasised.

Overall response, Positive.


By taking both aspects of both cultures, I wanted to achieve the reminiscent anatomy of the skull, yet but also giving it some clean, rounded features that makes it appealing as a piece of furniture, as well as a work of art. Having a lighting fixture within the skull would be ideal. Aesthetically, the light within the cranium would imply deep thought or ideas.