Saridis of Athens
Identity, website and shop, a concept. saridis-concept.vercel.app
Saridis of Athens has made T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings' Klismos furniture since 1961. No wooden klismos survives from antiquity; the chair is known only from Athenian vases and grave reliefs. In 1961 Robsjohn-Gibbings and Eleftherios Saridis made it again from those images. This concept follows the same method: nothing in it is invented, and every letter, line and figure is taken from an object.
The letters are drawn from the iron Saridis used to burn ΣΑΡΙΔΗΣ into its furniture, and set stoichedon, the way Athenian inscriptions set names: one letter to a square, no spaces between words. ΣΑΡΙΔΗΣ and SARIDIS both have seven letters, so Greek and Latin share one seven-column grid, and every word set large on the site has seven letters: ΚΛΙΣΜΟΣ, KLISMOS, ΣΥΛΛΟΓΗ. The single colour is the clay of a red-figure vase.
The first screen is laid out like the grave stele of Hegeso, with the name across the top and the seated scene below. The site then places ten ancient klismoi on a true scale of 2,500 years, and ends on a product page for the Nº 3 chair: side and front traced from photographs and drawn at its catalogued 90 × 53 × 74 cm, in three finishes. Visitors can burn up to seven letters of their own above the maker's mark. On a phone the names stand upright and run down the screen, like an inscription cut down a column.
Every date, dimension and attribution comes from a museum record or an auction catalogue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wright, Sotheby's, Bonhams and the Bard Graduate Center. One HTML file, no framework, Lighthouse 100 on phone and desktop.
By Karnak; creative direction, Alan Yang. Concept: Saridis. Not affiliated with Saridis of Athens.
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A concept identity, website and shop for Saridis of Athens, makers of the Klismos chair since 1961. By Karnak.