The Explosion Cabinet / Sebastian Errazuriz Office

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“这是当代家具设计和工艺的杰作。”
“A masterwork of contemporary furniture design and craftsmanship.”

未激活时，“爆炸”看起来是一个规整的、漂亮的普通柜子。通过透明玻璃壁可以瞥见这个有趣而笨重盒体的内部。然而当你细细研究中央垂直线后会发现完全不一样的物体：只需轻轻一推，木杆便会滑向外部，最终整个柜子看起来如同爆炸一般向四周散开。这是一部展现设计师顽皮个性的漂亮而复杂的木工作品，给人带来无限惊喜。”完全散开的柜子拥有美丽的几何线条，这是在借鉴古老家具工艺元素—滑动“燕尾榫”的基础上，经过一年多的时间对结构不断完善的结果。

Inactivated, Explosion sits as a tidy, beautiful credenza. Transparent glass sidewalls provide a glimpse inside this intriguing but staid box. Further exploration of the central vertical seam reveals an entirely different object: With a gentle push, the rails slide further and further open until it seems that the cabinet has exploded beyond the bounds of stability. It is a beautiful, surprising, and confounding work that represents the playful conceit of the master cabinetmaker showing off. Even as Explosion’s exterior expands outward, it retains beautiful geometric proportions, using mechanics so complex that they took more than a year to perfect, despite borrowing one of cabinetmaking’s oldest tricks, the sliding dovetail.

Sebastian Errazuriz
Chilean, b. 1977
Explosion cabinet, 2014
Maple, glass, and stainless steel
29 1/4 x 56 x 15 7/8 in. (74.30 x 142.24 x 40.48 cm)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Women’s Committee Acquisition Fund

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