Furniture While You Wait
Monday, October 22nd, 2001Workshop at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Village Fête
2001
Among the various stalls on rickety trestle tables at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Village Fête in 2001, Martino Gamper and Rainer Spehl set up shop making ‘Furniture While You Wait’. They had spent the two previous weeks scavanging for odd bits and pieces of wood, abandoned furniture and other old junk including a guitar, a tennis racket, roller skates and a football.
Marttino and Rainer busily get to work hammering odd bits of wood and found objects together - cannibalising, rearranging, juxtaposing and reassembling - to punter’s specifications.
FWUW Bench
500×1800x700
Cantilevered chair, table-top
Unique
2001
Michael’s FWUW CD Shelf
350×750x160
Timber, veneered mdf, chipboard, hinges
Unique
2001
FWUW Drawer-table
400×450x380
Drawer, plywood
Unique
2001
FWUW Bed-bench
1700×550x680
Bed frame, timber and plywood
Unique
2001
FWUW Guitar-seat
400×420x650
Guitar, chair base
Unique
2001
Eddie’s FWUW Tennis-table
350×480x320
Wooden roller shutter, tennis racket, door pan
Unique
2001
FWUW Rockin’chair
450×500x650
Chair, plywood
Unique
2001
FWUW blue table
1000×1300x870
Laminated lab tops
Unique
2001
FWUW Double-sided-chair
500×450x600
Chair, timber and plywood
Unique
2001
The street workshop in a little dark back street in East London, 2002