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	<description>practical / inexpensive / ecological / lightweight / washable / warm / sturdy / clean / weatherproof / inconspicuous / comfortable / stackable / smooth / airy / contemporary /  ubiquitous / pragmatic MONOBLOC PLASTIC CHAIRS</description>
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		<title>Monobench &#8211; Thomas Schnur</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. <a href="http://www.thomasschnur.com/">Click the photo to explore</a>.


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		<title>Five Monbloc Rocking Chairs</title>
		<link>http://www.functionalfate.org/archives/2010/09/01/five-monbloc-rocking-chairs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Thiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#038; Maaike, Kate Ryan and flickr-user sidhefey.

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		<title>My seminal 2005 essay now as proper PDF file</title>
		<link>http://www.functionalfate.org/archives/2010/08/31/my-seminal-2004-essay-now-as-proper-pdf-file/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Thiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, there was only a simple scan of my seminal essay available, that Christian Kracht and Eckhart Nickel published in their magazine DER FREUND in spring 2004. Thanks to the editors, <a href="http://www.functionalfate.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DER-FREUND-Monobloc-Jens-Thiel.pdf">here</a> is a proper, searchable and printable file now. It´s in German, yes. A lousy scan of the English version, abridged and edited, from ART REVIEW is still <a href="http://www.functionalfate.org/download/Jens-Thiel_Sit-down-and-be-counted_Art-Review-April-2006.pdf">there</a>. (Click image to get the links.)

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		<title>Molten Mono</title>
		<link>http://www.functionalfate.org/archives/2010/08/30/molten-mono/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Thiel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[burn]]></category>

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		<title>Department Store, Quartier 206, Berlin</title>
		<link>http://www.functionalfate.org/archives/2010/08/28/department-store-quartier-206-berlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Thiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here goes more melt &#038; burn plastic chair glory.. I was much surprised to find the humble monobloc in one of Berlin´s most upmarket shopping venues, the I.M.Pei-designed <a href="http://www.departmentstore-quartier206.com/dsq206_content.html">Quartier 206</a>. For the summer sale weeks the basement  "Cabinet" store´s windows come with molten and twisted plastic furniture in mint and black, a befitting statement after the incredibly hot summer we saw this year. Another photo after the click.

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		<title>Baptiste de Bombourg, &#8220;Burnout&#8221;, 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.functionalfate.org/archives/2010/08/26/baptiste-de-bombourg-burnout-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Thiel</dc:creator>
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		<title>Flashback 1991: Frog Design Monobloc for Jardin</title>
		<link>http://www.functionalfate.org/archives/2010/08/19/flash-back-1991-frog-design-monobloc-for-jardin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Thiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most electrifying results of an afternoon´s frantic page viewing across the all encompassing archive of "form" was the très 1990s above advert by Frog Design for a (semi-?) monobloc they did for Jardin in 1991, during the very heydays of the monobloc plastic chair. I am not even sure, if this design ever went into mass-production, since I never ever saw it anywhere else. Frog back then was however THE design firm that you may translate in today´s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_design_Inc.">Jonathan Ive</a> and <a href="http://www.ideo.com/">Ideo</a> combined. I reckoned this was a must-share. Click for links and additional mumblings plus a bigger and better view of the somewhat disappointing scan.

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		<title>Reasonable Violence II</title>
		<link>http://www.functionalfate.org/archives/2010/08/18/reasonable-violence-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Thiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just came across a real, real weird application for a beyond repair damaged plastic chair.. What is this evil angle grinder about to do to this wonderful 1980s model, likely to be made by Kettler? Click image for more..

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		<title>Reasonable Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Thiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dimitri Nakassis, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto´s Department of Classics seems in an uncontrolled spray of violence, but there actually is a very well determined goal for his action. Click the photo and follow the link to learn which.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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