Exhibition: Chair Design (Hamburg) The Hamburg
Museum of Arts and Crafts dedicated to the seat design from 1960 to the present the first major exhibition. "Sitting ideas. 50 years chair design is "with 100 outstanding pieces from the prestigious collection of MCG, including chairs, armchairs, chaise lounges and stools, an insight into different design approaches and motivations of five turbulent decades. The focus of the chair stands as a witness, such as an expression of utopia or as a tool of political protest, in response to environmental changes or as a cool business idea, an experiment with the latest technologies or as a sculptural work of art, in which the chair - completely detached from its function - Barely recognizable as a source of inspiration is. Chairs are considered the calling card of any designer.
Ettore Sottsass (born 1917), chair " West Side " . Fin Knoll International, Murr / Murr, 1982/83. Stainless steel, polyurethane foam. Height 79 cm, width 99 cm, depth 79 cm Ettore Sottsass, the doyen of Italian design movement "Memphis" is in the Museum's collection with numerous pieces of furniture, craft objects, products of industrial design and with design drawings and prints represented. He designed spectacular Furniture, which negated the claim of the Functional conscious and often with bright colors and flashy designs traditional viewing habits ineffectual.
"is to design a chair to the great challenges for designers. This task seemed perfect in the sense of modernity solved when Michael Thonet's classic design, the Wooden Chair Model No. 14, in the then revolutionary bentwood technique brought out. Today, 150 years later, there are countless new chair models that lead to the artistic, technical and social changes. More than any other object allows the subject chair a discussion of conflicting positions of the design on one side of the rational-oriented, relevant form, at the stand the other hand the free play of imagination and artistically autonomous Gestaltgebung "
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