Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
As a prelude to another shocking chair episode this photo by US photographer Richard Kern which was published in his book Model Release
Some people see this as another piece of evidence of female suppression in art. I would say “Hiding from the photographer in the lavatory chair”
All seats at Modern Toilet Restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan are made of toilet bowls and all the tables are nothing else but sinks and bath tubs. You are served your food in toilet seat shaped bowls and plates in the shape of toilet seat covers… Oh, bon appetit, chair lovers!
Big thanks to Koryn Iledan for the photos.
Helmut Palla is a real tongue in cheek chair designer based in Vienna. I have disregarded him too long here. His Klovier Hocker – German non expression that could be translated as “Stool with parts I’ve cut from the piano” – is one from 1996.
Helmut:
Wood, iron or words, all of them are cutted, deformed, distorted, disarranged. Sort of violence so I try to minimalize the injury of the existing & maximize the effect of the new impression with the precision of a surgeon. Sometimes it’s amputation, reducing to the essence, keeping only the bones & the identity.
You can count him in the same league – of Poetic Chair Clowns maybe(?) – as Pablo Reinoso and Martino Gamper
Recently I visited the film museum of Turin in Italy and there the lavatory seats are derivatively famous because of the toilet signs;-)
