Word: luckey
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MOVABLE COLUMN. New Haven Architect Luckey has designed an 8-ft.-long, 6-ft.-diameter column that can be used in various ways. In a horizontal position, it serves as a bed or a couch; when it is lifted to a vertical position, the interior can be used as a dressing space, storage area or simply as a place to read in peace...
...Chairs, for example, create rigid environments," explains Thomas Luckey, 31, a New Haven environmental architect. "Because chairs are in fixed locations, they limit your options as to where to sit." In most rooms that Luckey and his colleagues design, conventional furniture is replaced by lumps, bumps and other more or less organized protrusions that serve as chairs, couches, tables and shelves. "The basic formula," says Charles Moore, former dean of Yale's School of Architecture and now a practicing architect in New Haven, "is to design an environment that is relatively cheap, comfortable and useful." After that, he says...