The making of my “Angel Sofa” Dirk Marwig 2011

Making of Sofa!

Angel sofa
(L.:300cm,H.:76cm,D.:108cm, Solid aged fir, plywood, high gloss enamel and 17 fitted removable and washable cushions, Dirk Marwig 2011)
-I don’t really like making something “useful” but sometimes one just cannot ‘buy’ what one is looking for: in this case a big, cool, solid sofa with ‘built in’ side shelves, moveable and washable cushions and a super hard hi-gloss finish. This sofa is so solid you could probably put a car on top of it! Here are the pics showing the building process(no screws or nails were used-just wood dowels and glue) and the finished Sofa. This photo was taken in 2011-a few things have changed since then in my living room but the sofa still “shines” as if new and I use it a lot. The sofa also has a secret compartment which nobody could find, even if they looked very hard and a “time capsule” with info about myself(pics ,flash drive, catalogues…) built into the framework!

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Margareta (-Plywood construction-plywood and fishing line, 48.5cm x 28.5cm x 38cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Margareta

Sometimes ‘it’ just happens: with my kind of twisted logic I cut various pieces of plywood rests at a particular angle, assorted the cut pieces according to size and then started sewing the pieces together. Without thinking or expecting something great to happen I then connected the 2 extremes and with surprise, suddenly came the idea. I made a few more pieces and the idea came to life: the object you see in the photo. During the construction “it” fell 3 times from my work table to the ground- “it” never broke despite it’s fragile appearance.

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Balkonien (Plywood construction-wall object-, 85.3cm x 80.2cm x 4,5cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Balkonien

“Balkonien” the resort on the balcony(‘Balkon’ in german). If you can’t afford to go anywhere on vacation, you can always go to Balkonien!
-I used 32 ‘Golden Rectangles’, dissected them into their major components (2 triangles or 3 proportionate squares for one rectangle) then reassembled them to construct this wall object.
-If you look closely the “Golden Rectangle” appears everywhere: for example: negative space + positive space = a Golden rectangle or just look at the positive spaces: large and small ‘Golden Rectangles’ appear everywhere, even overlapping each other. It’s like ‘filling in’ the missing line(s) to construct the perfect rectangle with your mind.

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Medium (Plywood construction with nylon string – kinetic object-, 65cm x 86cm x 41cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

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I always wanted to make a ‘mobile’ or a ‘kinetic object’ with perfect balance but not with ‘wire’ because for some reason I don’t like ‘wire’. This plywood object hangs from the ceiling with a nylon string and moves, shakes and turns according to the air current in the space.

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“?” (Plywood and plastic straw construction, 20.3cm x 20.3cm x 5.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

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Here is a photo of the little ‘desk-object’ called “?”
I gave this little “desk Object” away today on my “Ello” page: https://ello.co/dirkmarwig
This little gift was token of my appreciation to all the people who have shown interest in my work on that site. It was ‘given away’ to the first person who contacted me via my website (dirkmarwig.com) and shortly after posting it(like 3 minutes) a request was already in my e-mail.Now it is somewhere in Australia.

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The Soul of Constructivism (Plywood construction painted with oil and enamel, 87cm x 26cm x 10cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

The Soul of Constructivism

This wall object’s appearance depends on the lighting or illumination.

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Something for the Log Cabin (Plywood construction with high pigment lacquer -wall object- , 106cm x 84.3cm x 3.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Something for the Log Cabin

This wall object is a meditation piece. It’s made to relax and stimulate the mind at the same time. Something for the retreat in the log cabin in the mountains.

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Project Reveen (Plywood construction, 182cm x 36cm x 21.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Project Reveen New Photo

The idea for ‘Project Reveen’ came to me in a flash of a second, the little drawing of what the project would look like was done in 2 minutes but the execution and finishing of the construction/object took me a little over 2 weeks. I had to keep myself focused because it was so boring to cut and assemble all that plywood-factory style.

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Me(Dirk Marwig) after finishing New Balance Sat. 13. 2014)

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After finishing New Balance I went to a “parking lot party” in downtown Vancouver to “relax”, which I did very well. This pic shows me doing a backwards “New Balance” without the drool coming from my mouth!

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New Balance -side view-(Free-standing “restored construction site wood” object, leather and special lacquer, 101cm x 53cm x 9cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

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This is the ‘full side view’ of “New Balance”. This “free standing” object will not fall over unless you push it! (Just like the ‘Junkie’ on the street corner wearing those New Balance runners, forever swaying but never falling over!)

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