Australian creative Don Cameron adds sofas, tables, lamps and more to his impressively diverse oeuvre.
A hefty, solid walnut desk is informed by a blunt, bull-nosed bunker on Alderney, the northernmost of the inhabitable Channel Islands, its rounded forms echoing an architecture that was designed to throw little shadow, blending instead into bleak surrounds.
A blocky steel sofa mimics the elemental structure of another bunker on the isle of Guernsey. The stitch-welding joinery technique is left evident rather than polished or brushed to a seamless finish – much as the rudimentary concrete construction of the bunker remains clear to this day. The way light falls across the stacked blocky volumes of Cameron’s lumieres suggests the shadow play of the canted fenestration, as seen from within the Wotruba cathedral – which is where the Chartres connection becomes most evident.Ceramic coffee tables featuring skateboard-ramp style sculptural swooshes are influenced by the roofline of a private house in Bordeaux, designed and delivered in the mid-1960s by French architect Claude Parent.
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