FIELD TRIP with BLU DOT

After debuting during NYCxDesign, Blu Dot brings Field Trip, a photographic series by @galenrayfletcher and accompanying zine art directed by @hello_____hardy back to Minnesota.
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The series follows the Field Lounge Chair through more than twenty locations across the Twin Cities: from the Saarinen-designed Christ Church Lutheran and the frozen caves behind Minnehaha Falls to the Riverview Theater, Walker Art Center and Kathy’s Live Bait.
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Alongside Fletcher’s photographs, an early Field Lounge Chair prototype, drawings, working materials and personal objects from designer Warren Young expand Field Trip into the chair’s own story of place: how it was made, the Twin Cities influences behind it and the design relationships that shaped it.
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Among them is Young’s earlier work interpreting Ralph Rapson’s sketches for the Rapson Dwell Lounge Chair, a connection explored through archival material from the architect’s eponymous firm.
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It finds a small echo in Maison Bodega itself, renovated nearly a century after it was built in collaboration with Rapson Architects. @toby_rapson