Category: chair installation

Rest experience at: wageningen, netherlands from: july 20 to september 21, 2008. Recently DesignBoom came across rest a public art installation created by dutch artists martijn engelbregt and miguel brugman. engelbregt was invited to create the installation as part of a summer arts festival. not only is it an art installation but it also a dining experience. he was inspired whilst cooking and realised how much food he wasted and in turn wanted to make people aware of how much food gets wasted in households. food served include edible wild plants that are gathered from the local area, cooked by engelbregt. the idea of rest came from picnic tables that are often located along major highways around the world known as rest stops. read more: http://www.egbg.nl

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DESIRE FOR THE OTHER 2004 This project was sculpted by Brian Goggin with Al Honig and Tom Kennedy. It is part of the San Jose Museum of Art permanent collection. It’s a pandemoniacal moment, bounding off the floor, an amiable enough, elongated, many legged, yet crapulous couch wraps its craning ends bulbous pillows around an under stuffed rather intellectual reading chair. Not for osculation, but for silencing consumption. An armor of orange upholstery stretches tight, seams strained, over previously pillow-gummed furniture, constrained inside the padded peptic tract but not yet dissolved, a table, a television, a lamp, and a telephone, thrust their extremities out, unlikely tent poles making fabric braille, caught in the couches duodenum. Black belly arching, red legs clambering, it peers your way.

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