100 Chairs in 100 Days Exhibition
Saturday, October 20th, 2007
2-15 October 2007
5 Cromwell Place
South Kensington
London
The exhibition was made possible with the generous help of
Blackburn Associates Limited
Design Project
and Åbäke
A 100 Chairs in 100 Days
Confronting the Chair / Exhibition at the Design Museum
Monday, January 1st, 2007
‘There is no perfect chair’ declares the designer Martino Gamper, who has been making a chair a day in a bid to make 100 chairs in 100 days. Using a stock pile of discarded and donated chairs Gamper creates his new chairs from elements of existing ones. By deconstructing the chair he gains a new insight into its construction and use of materials which informs the creation of the new design. The process is immediate, spontaneous like sketching in three dimensions. These chairs will be displayed in the Design Museum alongside some selected by Gamper from the Design Museum collection.
02 December – 25 February 2007
A 100 Chairs in 100 Days
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006As a continuation of Martino’s interest in making as well as collecting chairs, he has decided to make one hundred chairs in 100 days. He will be collecting chairs from friends, streets and skips. In a way, the whole process of finding and reconstructing chairs works more like a sketchbook he is happy to work with. It should be possible to ‘design’ and ‘sketch’ in 3D. Will any of the hundred become the model of a mass-produced chair? But more generally, what will happen to them? How can they be used? etc.
Backside
3 September 2007
Side Effect Chair
24 July 2006
Arnoldone
13 September 2007
Barbapapa in Vienna
7 August 2006
This chair was made in Vienna using a classic Thonet chair together with a stretchy pipe-dress.
Sonet Butterfly
16 August 2006
Plank Rocker
03 June 2006
Hands On
27 September 2006
Charles and Ply
28 July 2006
Ghost
12 September 2007
Lap-dog
27 July 2006
Two-some
14 July 2006
Ply on Ply
20 July 2005
Using the plywood seats from old school chairs.
Cathedra Rassa
4 August 2006
Jules with Friend
5 August 2006
Philippe Fantasique
15 September 2007
Plastic-fly
11 September 2007
Achilles’s Bicicletta
21 September 2006
Homage to one of the greatest Italian designers of the last century Achille Castiglioni.
Darth Vador
8 September 2007
A slight transformation of a go-kart seat into a Star Wars character.
Leg-o
14 September 2007
After taking apart many of the found chairs I ended up with a lot of single legs.
Olympia
2 August 2006
Multiple Choice
17 September 2007
Painters Mate
18 May 2007
Thonet meets Jackobsen meets Thonet
Bare Light
23 September 2006
Found in Milano, made in Vienna
Ch’Air No 9 Chair
19 July 2006
A chair that joins Jasper Morrison’s Air Chair with a bentwood Thonet chair No 9.
Mono Suede
03 March 2005
This was the first chair made in the series of the 100, somehow still my favorite one.
Aradson
21 September 2007
Arne Cubista
9 September 2007
A Basketful
18 August 2006