Kamran Afshar Naderi, is an architect, artist, architecture critic and co-founder of the Memar Magazine. During the past 5 years, he has been focusing on the creation of large-scale artworks on-demand. In his sculptural artwork, he uses different materials and ad-hoc techniques. Tree of Life, a 3 dimensional panel (H=9:50, W= 3.50 m), at IFCM institute in Lyon, Rose Garden 1 sculpture (H= 3.50, W = 3.50 m) at Villasufia Gallery in Tehran, Rose Garden 2 (H=6.00, W= 3.00 m) installed in a penthouse in northern Tehran, Tree of life 2 (H = 9.00, W = 3.00 m ) in the lobby of a large residential tower in northern Tehran, are among his most well-known works. Besides his artistic and architectural activities, he has designed several pieces of furniture for himself and for his projects. Patternitecture exhibition became an occasion for creating a new line of limited-edition furniture, inspired by ancient myths and iconography.
Kamran Afshar Naderi's artworks:
Furniture line: Guardians, by Kamran Afshar Naderi, produced by Villa Sufia.
For millenniums, animals have been an inseparable part of the human life. Zoomorphic motives dominated the prehistoric art and have survived up until our era. Traditional crafts, such as carpet weaving and pottery, draw inspiration from the zoomorphic iconography. Positive human–animal relationships can provoke positive emotions, in fact, animals have been source of inspiration for many modern artists and designers.
The Guardians, is a limited-edition line of furniture, designed by Kamran Afshar Naderi and produced by Villa Sufia.
In designing Guardians, Afshar Naderi, studied the anatomy of the animals for creating objects that evoke energy and agility.
For instance, tables are usually among the most static furniture pieces of the house, yet the production of Black Panther, evokes movement.
The chair, called Jupiter (refer to Jules Verne’s novel of The Mysterious Island), resembles an ape that keeps on its knees the seated person.
These objects, belong to a set of furniture produced by state-of-the-art 3d printing system combined with fiberglass technology and hand crafting for the final refinements.
