After a while, i.e. about seven years, looking into monoblocs, monobloc-remakes, -restatements, re-re-interpretations, and mostly lots of me-toos, you think you know it all. Nope — we don´t.

Monobloc Bench re-edit by Thomas Schnur, wooden frame and plastified paper coating, prototype, in process, 2008. Click the photo to explore.

The rocking chair is a bit démodé nowadays – and the monobloc is hard on its heels to follow that path. So, both may make a good pair. Here is five monobloc rocking chair takes by Peter Traag, Rebecca Ahlstedt, Mike & Maaike, Kate Ryan and flickr-user sidhefey.

Dimensions: H 1850x l 420x L730mm 580×559×900mm 836×502×557 mm
Realisation time: 132 hours
Date: 17/09/2006
Artist Website here.
More melt & burn glory to come. Thanks Kai for the pointer.

Apparently French street art collective (?) Poster Time contextually remixes billboards in the public space in a quite original manner. On their blog there are a few monobloc plastic chair related works – but go check out their other stuff too. It´s pretty good. Click image for more.

Commissioned by the Museo Reina Sofia, French artist Pierre Huyghe in March 2010 installed “La saison des fêtes” at the Palacio de Cristal, a Madrid-cousin of Crystal Palace. In the center of the luminous pavilion he set up a visionary landscape comprising of plants associated with festivals and celebrations familiar across the world – red roses for Valentine’s day, pumpkins for Halloween, cherry blossom marking the arrival of spring.

Huyghe further strengthens this one-world motif by providing visitors with plain monobloc plastic chairs in different sizes and colours, as he hopes ..

Some more reflections/remakes of the monobloc stool from the world of design and visual arts.. Click.