Architecture, shoes and a love story
Michael Cannell has an entertaining piece in Fast Company about the (not incidental) connection between architectural and footwear design.
As he points out, “What are shoes, after all, but mini buildings for your feet?”
To offer one illustration: the Eamz shoe, inspired by Charles and Ray Eames’ iconic chair.
What’s even more interesting, to me anyway, is the shoe’s backstory. (It has a ring of mythology to it, but, like Fox Mulder, I want to believe.)
As the story goes, designer Rem D. Koolhaas—nephew of the Rem Koolhaas—had a broken heart.
In his attempt to win the girl back, he downsized architecture “to its smallest and most vulnerable scale, that of a woman’s foot.” The girl, alas, was gone. But a shoe company was born.
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