A Chair and You at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig
...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...
