Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen, a smow Pop-up at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig
...If a tour through the (hi)story of chair design in western Europe that after the 1970s picks up its narrative again in 2005 with the Victoria Ghost through Kartell, a work by a designer who very much made a name for himself, established his positions, and argued passionately and resolutely for those positions, in the 1980s and 1990s: Philippe Starck, that almost too good epitome of the confidence, brashness, decadence, provocation, vivacité, of design in 1980s and 1990s France, of the desire in 1980s and 1990s France to forcibly, conclusively, break with the past, as the citizens of France so often have... A Victoria Ghost that traces its origins back to 1998 and Starck's La Marie for Kartell, the world's first completely transparent chair, a transparency, an immateriality that is also possessed, albeit through a different conceit, by Kjærholm's PK 4, if that is you can possess an immateriality...
