Giant Lattenstuhl (or Slatted Chair)
Thonet’s version of the Lattenstuhl or slatted chair is numbered 91 chair.
I took this photo along the road from Moedling to Vienna in Austria (number 17) it is near Shopping City Sued.
Bateau Imaginaire – Chair Installation by Franz West and Heimo Zobernig
Bateau Imaginaire – Chair Installation by Franz West and Heimo Zobernig
In 2014 I visited the Belgian city Oostende (Ostend) for an exhibition “The Sea” which was curated mainly by the Ghent curator Jan Hoet, who unfortunately died before the exhibition opened and made the other instigators decide to make the exhibition a tribute to Jan Hoet
Rachel Spence says in The Finacial Times about Franz West:
Franz West is often described as the arch joker in a pack of late 20th-century sculptors known for their irreverent cornucopias of materials.
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West’s profferings – zany, bulbous sculptures, kinky collages and funky furniture that he encouraged spectators to sit on – labelled him a cheeky Lord of Misrule. He would bring art to the masses yet make them chuckle too.
I never found him that funny. His squidgy, effervescent, papier-mâché efflorations sent shivers up my spine, as did his collages of fashion, porn and newspaper images. His invitations to perch on the sofas and chairs felt like commandments: thou shalt giggle; thou shalt chill out.
West never denied that his humour sprang from dark sources. Born in Vienna in 1947, he grew up in a city lacerated by its war record. He remembered playing in filthy, debris-littered streets where virtually all the residents had been Nazis. His own parents were communists, Jewish on his mother’s side.
Appearance of this Blog
After a couple (3.5) of years running on the Headway theme for WordPress, I’ve decided to go back to a simple standard WordPress theme. That of 2016, or Twenty Sixteen. The advantage is it can run on the PHP 7. series of PHP scripting language, which seems much more economic than the 5. series. Maybe we’ll be a bit more future proof as well. The front page seems to load a lot faster using this combination. Especially because the Headway theme caused some errors According to a much appreciated plugin that analyzes your page deploying, Query Monitor . I’ve run the sisterblog on twenty sixteen and that went well for maybe 6 months.
Balancing Egg Eimer
Admitted, the chair is not essential here, it’s more like a prop. But this “Eiereimer auf stuhl mit Pappsockel” by Hans-Peter Feldmann uses a chair to balance the bucket full with eggs. So a place for eternity for the Egg Eimer and its chair 😉
Modern Sofa – 2015 IMM Cologne 06
I found this sofa with different classic backrests at the IMM Cologne in 2015, but don’t know by whom.
Update 2023: It is the Back to Back Sofa by Nigel Coates