Jolie-Laide

"beautiful-ugly"

So much of design is concerned with the beautiful object.  But beauty does not always equate to interesting.  As time passes, I am increasingly intrigued by the notion of purposely baking-in tension when designing objects, hence my fascination with the French concept of Jolie-Laide. 

Why be beautiful when you could be interesting?

Comments

[Valentin]

Z4 Coupe… a whiff of Zagato?

[John]

re: Jolie-Laide... i fondly call the Z3 hatchback "the shoe." it'd be interesting to contrast it with the convertible, which is merely Laide.

nice site.