Assignment 2

The first one La Chaise was designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1948.

The second one was designed by Anne-MetteJensen and Morten Ernst in 1994.

Both of they have organic curve surfaces with rational straight line structures support them.

Sensuous impulse in design is a strong reflection from designers who have been searching for a new style in a cold rational world for a very long time. They look for a completely fresh way to design things that are totally out of any classical principle which they are tired of. Therefore, they start to create a large number of illogically imaginary arts to break those rules. It seems like a wild plant glowing madly on the ground. This phenomenon is likely to spread as fast as explode, and the design might become more and more fantastically imaginary and irrational. To sum up, sensuous impulse is the process of changing from classicism to romanticism.

Sensuous impulse is not only appear in the history, but also in the recent days. The reason for that is there is a swing between the straight line and the curve (They are the representation of classicism and romanticism respectively), but the range of the swing is been becoming smaller and smaller. The creations designed by people are getting closer to the balance between the straight line and the curve.