The Historia Supellexalis: "W" for Wegneritis
...Chairs one as good as the next, each of which became New Normals, but which couldn't abate the Grcic Konstantin's creative itch...
Whether functional for the working space dining room or for maximum comfort in the cosy reading corner - Audo Copenhagen (formerly Menu) have a chair for every situation. The Danish designer furniture manufacturer offers a variety of dining room chairs, all-purpose chairs, work chairs and seating for lounge areas; chairs which convince with everything that the Scandinavian design tradition has to offer: reduced, contemporary design meets traditional craftsmanship and modern technology in production - this is how chairs of first-class quality are created.
Each Audo Copenhagen chair embodies an independent design approach; and the Audo Copenhagen portfolio ranges from the classic modern period to contemporary models. Designers such as the Danish mid-century designer Ib Kofo-Larsen or the contemporary design studio Norm Architects develop works in a wide variety of design languages and employing numerous materials. An all-purpose chair with an organically shaped seat shell made of polypropylene proves to be particularly functional in the dining room or outdoors, while a lounge chair with foam padding and leather cover provides comfort when relaxing and a particularly elegant look in the living room. Audo Copenhagen offers a varied and carefully curated program of chair designs that fit perfectly into a wide variety of areas and complement each other perfectly.
Outdoor chairs from Audo Copenhagen combine functionality, comfort and aesthetics with high-quality materials that are robust, durable and weatherproof. Audo Copenhagen outdoor chairs such as the WM String Lounge Chair and the WM String Dining Chair withstand the elements outdoors and transform the garden, terrace or balcony into a stylish and comfortable environment. Whether you're looking for a place to relax, dine or entertain outdoors, Audo Copenhagen has outdoor chairs to match.
Audo Copenhagen dining chairs are carefully designed and crafted from high quality materials to ensure supreme seating comfort. With their perfect balance of aesthetics and functionality, they harmoniously adapt to all furnishing styles. Dining chairs from Audo Copenhagen, like the Harbor Dining Chair, are not only an elegant solution for any festive table, they also offer inviting seating for relaxed social gatherings and everyday meals together.
Are you looking for an extra seat or a practical stool? Audo Copenhagen offers a selection of stools and folding chairs that combine functional, space-saving design and stylish aesthetics. Stools sucha asthe Audo Copenhagen Passage Stool are characterized by their slim and modern design and offer practical seating in the hallway or living room. The folding chairs from Audo Copenhagen are particularly practical and functional and can be easily stowed away when needed. Despite the folding function, Audo Copenhagen folding chairs do not compromise on comfort and style and with high-quality materials and sophisticated details, the Audo Copenhagen stools and folding chairs provide additional seating without sacrificing quality and design.
...Chairs one as good as the next, each of which became New Normals, but which couldn't abate the Grcic Konstantin's creative itch...
...A Chair and Thierry Barbier-Müller that over the next 30ish grew to some 650 Chairs and Thierry Barbier-Müller and which occasionally became A Thierry Barbier-Müller Chair and Musée cantonal de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains, Mudac, Lausanne, when the later borrowed works from the former's collection for their exhibitions; contact between Thierry Barbier-Müller and Mudac which very naturally led to the question of the possibility of an exhibition of Barbier-Müller's collection, whereby, as Chantal Prod'Hom, Mudac's former director, and a key protagonist in the development of A Chair and You explains, simply presenting the chairs in groups on pedestals wasn't really an option... Chairs, Wilson reflects, are lines, shapes and colours in space...
With furniture, as with so much in life, it is rarely the showy, high profile, works, or individuals, that teach us most, but those works, and those individuals, who in their anonymity and modesty accompany us in invisible silence. Or rather the anonymous and...
..."1 With the exhibition Chairs: Dieckmann!... 2 And indeed unlike Junge Dieckmann was a member of the NSDAP; and as Aya Soika convincingly discusses in the Chairs: Dieckmann!...
...For our part we were particularly perturbed by the claim in the section on Plastic Chairs that the high sales figures for Gerd Lange's early 1970s Flex 2000 indicate that "Thonet had its finger on the pulse of the plastic age" If there's one thing the Thonet (hi)story teaches us it is that "plastic age" (largely) passed them by, that having established the company on two material/technological innovations they missed a third, lest we forget, which we can't because they are two examples in the exhibition, in the 1950s & 60s Thonet cooperated with Verner Panton on wooden chairs, you do the math... A state of affairs Bentwood and Beyond with its inter-twinned specific and general discussions on 200 years of modern furniture design very convincingly, satisfyingly, underscores and reinforces; despite moments such as Plastic Chairs or Super Normal Bentwood and Beyond isn't a hagiographic celebration of Thonet, but a series of reflections on Thonet in context of wider realities, a series of reflections on the (hi)story of furniture design and the path to our contemporary furniture understandings through the conduit of Thonet, and for all an exhibition which tends to underscore and reinforce the truism that continually evolving social, cultural, economic, technical, et al realities not only carries design forth but defines, and continually redefines, our relationships to our objects of daily use, demanding the new, discarding the obsolete, the foolish, the faddish while preserving, nurturing, certain universal archetypes as it rolls onwards...