Vico Magistretti, Silver chair, De Padova, 1992. Photo © Design Museum A Century of Chairs Date: Friday 22 January 2010 – Sunday 7 March 2010
Time: Daily
Free admission
| No object tells the story of modern design more eloquently than the chair. At a time when design is enjoying unprecedented popularity with the public, this Design Museum touring exhibition, A Century of Chairs, offers an engaging and informative opportunity to trace the history of modern design through the evolution of one object – the chair. The exhibition features a collection of over 75 classic chairs from the Design Museum collection, each of which illustrates a landmark in aesthetics, functionality, materials, production technology or sustainability. From Michael Thonet’s discovery of how to mass manufacture bentwood chairs in the late 19th Century and Marcel Breuer’s pioneering use of tubular steel at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, to Charles and Ray Eames’ plywood innovations in the 1940s, the pop inspired plastic chairs of Verner Panton and Joe Colombo in the 1960s and recent advances by contemporary designers, such as Jasper Morrison and the Bouroullec brothers, the chair has long been a focus of experimentation for modern designers.
| A touring exhibition from The Design Museum
| Artists exhibiting will include
Charles Eames Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, Bruno Mathsson, Frank O. Gehry, Jasper Morrison, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Arne Jacobsen, Gio Ponti, Carlo Mollino, Michael Thonet, Hiroshi Tsunoda, Charlotte SÖrensen, Robin Day, Nikolai De Gier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Hans Coray, Rodney Kinsman, Vico Magistretti, Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Philippe Starck, Tom Dixon, Fred Scott, Gae Aulenti, Harry Bertoia, Gaetano Pesce, Paolo Deganello with Archizoom, Yoshiyuki Kita, Erwan Bouroullec, Ron Arad, Jerszy Seymour, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Anna Castelli-Ferrieri,Verner Panton, Ettore Sottsass, Marc Newson, Morten Kjelstrup, Allan .stgaard
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