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12 rue d'Artois
59000 Lille
France
Each item produced by Alex Herman is very clean, cleaned of its anecdotes. An economy of form and materials - less is more - but also an invitation to the giddiness of a small extra - A Little More Than less. Every production has a rule, a law of progress and also a slight lag that prevents the predictable: a spearhead opening the squared object to the organic dimension of the hive or of the pine cone, a tilt of the right angle which gives it a dynamic; a kind of "perspectived" vision of the square that shows it in its diamond shape. Angles are acute, there is loss of space but what a dynamic!
The objects are designed and understood by Alex Herman as objects of architecture - sort of objects to live in or vice versa, objects with a larger ambition.
The Zaha shelves weave their ribs in a dense network of underground corridors reminiscent of our subways. Plans bifurcate, intersect and are tied without being mixed. Their sharp edges ignore the rational bracket, opening on a feeling of nervousness: the shelves do not rest on the ground, they take off. The table Give me More than less, please, made of a plane surface and its nomad feet becomes after a few rustic movements a table for children. Here the living detail gives the object its essential value. Completely disassembled, the table slides, allowing hitself to be forgotten against the wall and becomes, for a brief moment, an abstract but concrete installation.
