Tag: Martino Gamper

If only Gio Knew – Martino Gamper

If Only Gio Knew by Martino Gamper

As one of the four designers of the future, at Design Miami/ Art Basel 2008, Martino Gamper presented new work inside the Markthalle Basel. Gamper deconstructed famous works by Gio Ponti to build new furniture from them.

Via DesignBoom

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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:-)

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Martino Gamper: 100 chairs in 100 days in 100 ways, part 2: Walking Chair

Walking Chair Poster

Through Viennese Gallery Walking Chair I got acquainted with Martino Gamper first.

Martino Gamper as Host
Martino Camper here as a Chef in one of his recent ventures

Italian born Martino Gamper is an artist and chair maker. He studied in Vienna and is located in East London.

Martino Gamper, Best Chair Alchemist
Martino Gamper, Best Chair Alchemist

He is a real Chair-O-Holic who doesn’t only collect photos of chairs like me, but also collects real chairs and then does something with his collection.

With his project 100 chairs in 100 days in 100 ways he produced one chair per day giving old chairs he had collected a new twist.

Here are some photos I was able to collect from the Walking Chair exhibition in Vienna:

Martino Gamper Walking Chair 01

The Bottom is made from an ‘Arnold Circus’ Stool. The Arnold Circus stool was designed by Gamper in 2006 for The Friends of Arnold Circus, a regeneration project in Shoreditch, East London.

Martino Gamper Walking Chair 08

This one bears some distant resemblance with Joseph Hoffman’s Sits Machine. Aptly shown in Vienna.

Martino Gamper: 100 chairs in 100 days in 100 ways, part 1: Walking Chair

Martino Gamper at the Walking Chair Gallery
Martino Gamper at the Walking Chair Gallery in 2006

My first encounter with Martino Gamper was through the announcement of the opening of the Walking Char Gallery in Vienna in september 2006.

Walking Chair Gallery in Vienna: Entrance
Walking Chair Gallery in Vienna: Entrance

About Walking Chair

Walking Chair Motto

Walking Chair is a design Studio with a Gallery and a web shop, Walking Things. Their studio is located in what used to be a classic high ceiling Viennese café, which later was converted into a motor garage. Meeting six years ago while working as freelance designers for the Lomographic Society on a new type of handset, the Swiss born, Basel trained, typeface, typographic, filmmaker and communication designer Fidel Peugeot joined forces with the Italian, Vienna trained, mechanical engineer turned product designer Karl Emilio Pircher.

Walking Chair Designs:
I found two chair related designs by Walking Chair:

Walking Chair Monte Bello Sofa
Their Monte Bello Sofa

and

Banja Luka Chair
Their Banja Luka Chair

They featured Martino Camper’s 100 chairs project from September 28, 2006 – December 24, 2006 in their Walking Chair Gallery.

I was in Vienna in that period, but alas missed this opportunity lacking time and knowledge (I hadn’t started this Blog yet).

See my next posts.

100 Chairs in 100 Days in London

London-based designer Martino Gamper has finally completed his 100 chairs in 100 days project, which is on show in a South Kensington mansion house until 15 October. Gamper took 100 days over the last year to make a series of hybrid creations fusing different parts of found chairs. Far from being presented as untouchable museum pieces, the chairs were being used by visitors on the opening night last week. Initially people were cautiously perching on the exhibits, but by the end of the evening they were victim to a game of musical chairs. Instead of auctioning the chairs off as originally planned, Gamper presented visitors with slips so that they could put in an offer or propose an item in exchange. The most bizarre offer received so far is a pair of boots from a North Pole expedition. Icon interviewed Gamper when he was 75 chairs in to the project. Read the interview here icon 045 | March 2007 5 Cromwell Place London, SW7 Open from 12 pm – 6 pm daily

via ICONEYE

Wood Bean Bag by Martino Gamper

Martino Gamper, 100 Chairs in 100 Days: Wood, Bean Bag Chair Ariana Mouyiaris Martino Gamper has a penchant for furniture: to be specific, chairs. In his project 100 Chairs in 100 Days, he takes apart a mix of discarded and systematically collected pieces found on London’s street corners (or sympathetic friends’ lounges and living rooms) over a period of two years, disassembles and then reworks them, creating unique, functional chairs that blend the “stylistic and structural elements of the found ones.” Martino Gamper, 100 Chairs in 100 Days: White & Yellow Chair, Ariana Mouyiaris

via Inhabitat