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Red and Flowery
Red and Flowery
Bel Air Chair by Peter Shire
Bel Air Chair by Peter Shire
Am glad I can introduce our readers to a chair by a Memphis founder Peter Shire via Kissthedesign
About Peter Shire
Born in Los Angeles, in the Echo Park area where he still resides today, Shire is a native in a city that prides itself for the many cultures and languages it comprises. Shire recognizes the role his family had on both his social commitments and the development of his art. In particular, the artist acknowledges that his father’s concern with craftsmanship, with which he became familiar while working in his furniture design and manufacturer business, had a powerful impact on his later artistic views.
Shire does not reject the rich heritage of twentieth century art, and references to Bauhaus, Futurism, Art Nouveau or Art Deco are to be ground throughout his work. However, his art dismisses a facile linear trajectory and replaces nostalgic connotations with eclectic playfulness and subtle irony. One of the original members of the Milan-based Memphis group, Shire has challenged the rigidity of modernist vocabulary and has boldly articulated a novel languages defined by an unexpected visual dialogue between forms and surfaces and between technology and aesthetics. It is precisely this aspect of his art that has established him as one of the essential contributors to the postmodern critical debate.
About Kissthedesign
Kissthedesign is a gallery in Lausanne with an unique profile, as it confronts design of the 20th with art of the 21th century. The high end selection of Kissthedesign combines selected classics by among the most important designers of the 20th century, like Le Corbusier, Charles & Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Gio Ponti, Hans J. Wegner etc, postdesign experimentations with 80’s designers like Ettore Sottsass and exclusive and rare pieces from 1945 to 1985.
Kissthedesign is also a cultural place where the new art creation is exhibited with a solo show cycle of young emerging artists
The Gallery Kissthedesign opened in march 2010 at the initiative of two awarded artists graduate in art and design from the Haute Ecole d’Art et Design (HEAD), Geneva and the Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne
Kissthedesign is an expertise in mid century design furniture and contemporary art.
“Chaise” by Marta Bakowski
“Chaise” by Marta Bakowski
La Chaise is an installation based on the construction lines used in academic drawings. These ‘virtual’ lines are destined to help creating a perspective, to arrange the elements of the drawing within the space of the paper, or to draw an object with the right proportions.
What if those lines were physically present in a real three-dimensional space? The result is the image of a chair made of white threads attached in both parallel and perpendicular axis between the walls and ceiling of the gallery. The chair that stands out in a bright red color remains an image of the object it represents.
Marta should team up with Robert wilson….
b.a-ba: Monobloc Makeover by Cyrille Candas
I felt I needed two posts, Via’s Carte Blance for the Costes Chair and the connection between Joe Colombo and Vico Magistretti as an intro for this post…
Currently Via has an exposition until December 31, 2011, b.a-ba. It showcases a new way of giving the (in)famous Monobloc Plastic Chair a worthy second life. A Monobloc Rehab one could say. Emmaus is a huge French organization that annually takes in thousands and thousands chairs that cannot be resold. Among them plenty of Monoblocs. In addition it recycles tons and tons of textile unsuitable for reuse. French designer Cyrille Candas has brought the two together with paint. She has the textile ground into a short fiber called floc an mixes the floc with colorful paint. She also gave it a label (b.a-ba) and there is a new sustainable brand being born. Quite sustainable I would say. And we have an addition for our own colorful palettes of chair colors we are slowly, but gradually building into color portfolios here on the blog and via pinterest.