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Califorornia based conceptual artist Marc Horowitz was invited to Carl Djerassi´s ranch in Australia in 2005 together with seven other artists and created some land art-ish sign using white resin chairs..
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Mike Simonian, a designer based in San Fransisco, informed me, that he and his partner Maaike Evers (who are together MikeandMaaike) did a project (9th slide on their website) , where they strived to bring rocking to the masses, employing monobloc technology. A very worthwhile venture, I´d say.
Their plastic rocker was one of the winners of Designboom´s rocking chair competition and on display at 100% Design in London, 2002 ..
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“The exhibition is composed out of 50 pairs of white plastic chairs installed throughout the gallery in the most dissimile ways. The chairs (these model being called ‘Cuba’ by chance) were permanetly put together with metal bolts. While the chairs were disposed in a way that wouldn’t allow someone to sit, everywhere else in the city, these global style garden chairs ..
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“I put together two or more different chairs and I rearrange the context. I call this poetic process ‘Statement of necessity’. Chairs like this are quite common in the streets, often used by night watchman or mechanics at garages.” Oroza´s monobloc work was also part of his “Reinvented Objects” exhibition at the Saint Etienne 2002 Design Biennale..
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Sure without any hesitation I subscribe to this statement of spanish designer/artist Marti Guixe who has more very convincing items (1) (2) available from his website..

