Project CRISP Chair and Table Designs
Category: chair art
Don't Leave Me This Way – Chair Painting by Jeremy Melton
Don't Leave Me This Way – Chair Painting by Jeremy Melton
Via Design Milk
Added October 2009 :
This post is part of the experiment to automate the import of 20 of my prior Charblog | Tumblr tumblrings into this blog via Chairblog | Posterous which initially resulted in 20 posts without a title whereupon I had to edit it manually… Experiment failed:-)
Design Art?
“Design Art”: New concept or media hype? In 2007 auctioneers Phillips de Pury created a new brand name to catalog limited editions of furniture, often made in luxury materials, that had a sculptural quality. Design Art was born and with it a demand that pushed prices skywards. Since then there has been a debate raging regarding the validity of the term. In an article this weekend on The FT.com entitled The Great DesignArt Debate , art dealer Rabih Hage supports the new label as de-functionalising an object and looking at it from the pure emotional angl while Karen Ryan, an artist who repurposes pieces of furniture to turn into art, argues that no new label is needed to categorize her work.
Sensory Deprivation Skull Chair by Atelier van Lieshout
Sensory Deprivation Skull Chair by Atelier van Lieshout
Dutch Atelier Van Lieshout has their Sensory Deprivation Skull on display at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, a new Gallery in Mayfair, London, designated to furniture.
A chair you can sit in with the doors closed and without any disturbance from the outside world.
Even with a cosy sheepskin!
Joep van Lieshout, founder of Atelier Van Lieshout, would maintain it is an object of art, not a chair.
I would not agree and would like to quote the Italian critic and curator Angelo Capasso at Design NL who recently visited The Netherlands in preparation of a Dutch art and fashion exhibition in Rome:
A week of meetings in the Netherlands gave me the opportunity to gain an insight into the art and design scene there. Art and design are the most fruitful couple in the visual world. They give a different interpretation of the visual: as I said in my essay Design and Ready Made, a very simple difference between the two, is that ‘in art, objects pretend to be useless, in design, objects pretend to be useful. The word pretend is very important, in this context, because it underlines a possibility (a wish, a project) that is not necessary fulfilled. Today objects coming from the two different ideas (or projects) seem to be moulded in the same oven but subsequently served to a different table and therefore with a different destiny. In the Netherlands, as I have seen, the two share an interesting debate that makes it difficult to show reasons for their different identity: if generally it is art’s task is to pose questions while design’s goal is that of giving solutions, Dutch ideas show that a switching of these positions is possible. Therefore my short journey through the Netherlands was really a journey through the possibility of finding one main element of distinction between the two, or the elements that combines the two on a different face on the same coin.
About AVL – Atelier Van Lieshout
Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL), located in a warehouse in the Rotterdam harbour, was founded by artist Joep van Lieshout (1963) in 1995. It is a multidisciplinary art practice encompassing installation, design, furniture and architecture. The name Atelier Van Lieshout emphasises the fact that the works of art do not stem solely from the creative brain of Joep van Lieshout, but are produced by a creative team of artists, designers and architects.
The works of art are practical, uncomplicated and substantial. The work varies from sculptures and furniture, bathrooms and mobile home units to large installations and complete architectural refurbishments. One of the many applications and techniques used by AVL are the large polyester constructions in striking, bright colours. These polyester constructions, of which the large mobile home units are the best known, form the AVL trademark. Recurring themes in the work of AVL are autarky, power, politics and sex.
Works of AVL can be found in private collections and several museums.
Via Icon Eye.
A Chair loving Curator: R. Craig Miller
Photo:Tom Strattman for The New York Times:
MR. MODERN,
R. Craig Miller, curator for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, with lounge chair by Poul Kjaerholm.
A Curator Who Even Considers the Office Chair
By By FRED A. BERNSTEIN Published: March 12, 2008.
ART museums that pride themselves on being encyclopedic have a new historical period to cover: the 20th century. But collecting the art of the recent past takes lots of money. With contemporary pieces going for tens of millions of dollars, most museums are “priced out of that market,†said Maxwell Anderson, director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.Mr. Anderson said, however, that he had found a less expensive way to “tell the story of 20th-century creativityâ€: by collecting “design,†a category that includes everything from furniture to computers, glassware to textiles. “I’ve never accepted the artificial line between art and design,†said Mr. Anderson, who was the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2002, when it showed “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend.â€
So, one of the first things Mr. Anderson did when he took the Indianapolis job in 2006 was to contact R. Craig Miller, whom he calls “the dean of design curators.â€
As a curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1980s, Mr. Miller was responsible for installing the living room of a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the museum’s American Wing. In 1990, he left the Met for the Denver Art Museum, where he spent 17 years creating one of the world’s largest collections of 20th-century design, more than 11,000 objects. When Mr. Anderson called him, Mr. Miller was organizing a show for Denver on post-1985 European design, and Mr. Anderson wanted to see if he could take it to Indianapolis. The conversation between the two men — who have known each other since they were students in the ’70s — led Mr. Anderson to offer Mr. Miller a job at the Indianapolis museum.
via A Curator Who Even Considers the Office Chair – New York Times