Mussel Collier by Mia Larsson; Propeller 1 and Propeller II by Ann Wåhlström; Vase by Simon Whitfield; Nevada Stool by Kristoffer Sundin in collaboration with Johanna Friedman.
My favorites from this year's Örnsbergsauktionen.
I bought this chair in 1952 or 1953. Carel Visser and I went to Rietveld's office on the Oude Gracht in Utrecht together to ask if we could each buy a chair. Rietveld sent us to his furniture maker Van de Gronekan in De Bilt to have them made. The price then was 80 guilders (about $45 US). —Wim Crouwel, 2012
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Studio Job Gallery, Antwerp
Opens October 11
Through January 11, 2013
Previously: this poster
Uncommon Vision at the Chicago Merchandise Mart Herman Miller showroom. An Alexander Girard gold mine from the Herman Miller archives and the incredible collection of Bright Lyons.
Previously: "Good Design"
Seven Chairs by Yoshifumi Nakamura. From the Exhibition of Chairs for Children at Chihiro Art Museum (June 2011) via South Willard.
Jockum Nordström's home studio.
Photographs by Erik Wåhlström.
Furniture by Kristoffer Sundin.
via Elisabeth Dunker.
You cannot sit and wait for progress. Creating impulsively and reacting on the outcomes is a way to make the world increasingly better. It’s about being naïve at the right times and trying to be smart at others, having the guts to do so, despite high expectations and need for security.
To be quite honest, the best part of the whole experience is the day after the vibrant opening of the exhibition, back at the office working on a new product. Once more it becomes clear how impulses and fun can finally have their result in a functional piece of furniture. The different exhibitions are an underlining of Studio Bertjan Pot's diverse worlds. Nevertheless there is no preference for one or the other. Somewhere in the middle feels good, we're doing well.
Progress (2011) by Bertjan Pot
Excursus I: Reference Library
Up On My Back, And I Will Take You Thither
Excursus is a new series at ICA that invites the public to come together, converse, and peruse archival material in the context of the present. Andy Beach, known for his blog and curatorial interventions under the name Reference Library, inaugurates the series with Up On My Back, And I Will Take You Thither, a project that takes inspiration from the Centaur Book Shop, Philadelphia’s own Prohibition-era radical press, record store, and bohemian meeting place.
Celebrate the opening with a talk about the Centaur by curator Lynne Farrington of Penn's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To be followed by an after hours reception on the ICA terrace. Tonight at 6:30!
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Top: The Centaur (sign for Centaur Book Shop), Wharton Esherick, 1924; at his home in Paoli, Pennsylvania. Bottom: The Sign of The Centaur, Andy Beach and Happy Signs; installed at the ICA, Philadelphia.
Free drop-in workshop this weekend. Bring down your old furniture and Martino Gamper and the team will help you repair and improve your things. We have materials, tools, advice and skills to help you.
July 30 & 31, 2001, 10:00am–6:00pm
Open to anyone (under 16s bring a guardian).
62–64 Wallis Road, London E9 5LH
next to Hackney Wick Overground Station
