Kellenberger-White设计的五颜六色的字母椅子
Kellenberger-White’s multicoloured Alphabet chairs can be used to spell out words

由专筑网王帅，蒋晖编译

这26个字母形状的金属折叠凳子拥有五颜六色的外表，它们是专为2018年伦敦设计节所准备的。

总部位于伦敦的kellenberger-White平面设计工作室为Broadgate芬斯伯里大道广场（Finsbury Avenue Square）创建了这些人性化的字体设计小品，它们既充满趣味性，还能为往来的人群提供休息的场所。

All 26 letters of the alphabet are constructed out of folded metal in this colourful, interactive installation for London Design Festival 2018.
London-based graphic-design studio Kellenberger-White has created a human-scale typography in Finsbury Avenue Square, Broadgate, which encourages visitors to play as well as sit.



每把可移动的字母椅子都涂着不同的颜色，它们把广场变成了一座热闹的彩虹色游乐场。

设计师说：“该字母小品设计是一个在结构和颜色上的测试，它是可以和许多东西连接的实验。它既可以是一座游乐场，同时也可以是一个字母表；它既是公共的家具，但它又可以说话。”

Each of the moveable Alphabet chairs is painted a different colour, transforming the square into an interactive rainbow-coloured playground.
"Alphabet is an experiment in construction and colour that tests and connects many things," said the designers. "It's a playground, but also an alphabet; it's public furniture, but it can talk."



每一张椅子的外形都是基于折叠金属的特性所形成的，此外，设计师还参考了Bruno Munari 1944年的“在不舒服的椅子上寻求安慰”（Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair）系列中的照片，这些照片中的人物坐在一些不寻常的位置上。

游客们面临的挑战是如何舒适地享受每一张椅子，以及拼出巨大的单词。

The typographic form of each chair is based on the shapes that are possible to make from folded metal. There are also intended to reference the photos in Bruno Munari's 1944 series Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair, which show a figure sitting in a number of unusual positions.
Visitors face the challenge of getting comfortable in each of the pieces, as well as the opportunity to spell out giant words.



设计师使用专门用于工业金属制品的油漆，把每把字母椅子都涂上了不同的颜色。

椅子的颜色有用于旧金山的金门大桥的国际橙色，还有米德尔斯堡运输桥的矢车菊蓝色。

Each of the Alphabet chairs is painted a difference colour with a specialist paint used for industrial metal work.
Chair colours include International Orange, used on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and the Cornflower Blue colour of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge.



字母椅子是今年的地标性项目之一，它们出自世界上最好的设计师、艺术家和建筑师之手。

这些项目自2007年以来一直是伦敦设计节的一部分，但是现在已经出现在伦敦得一些最著名的地方，例如泰特现代酒店、V&A和圣保罗大教堂。

2018年的其他地标性项目还有Scholten & Baijings的茶时光（Time for Tea）， Waugh Thistleton Architects事务所在V&A的MultiPly项目和Es Devlin的特拉法加广场（Trafalgar Square）的舞狮。

Alphabet is one of this year's Landmark Projects, a series of major installations by the world's best designers, artists and architects, commissioned by British Land.
The projects, which have been part of London Design Festival since 2007, have appeared in some of London's best-known spaces including the Tate Modern, the V&A, and St Paul's Cathedral.
Other Landmark Projects for 2018 include Scholten & Baijings' Time for Tea at Fortnum & Mason, Waugh Thistleton Architects’ MultiPly at the V&A and Es Devlin's poetry-spouting lion in Trafalgar Square.