“They dirty, aren´t they?” a friend said when we flicked through the huge treasure of images Daniel Spehr had recently uploaded for me. In fact, these chairs are brand new and lined up in front of a little store in Myanmar Sri Lanka. They are perfectly clean, yet have this grainy texture.
We all know color preferences and symbolism throughout the world obviously differ. But texture? My initial hypothesis was, these chairs are the result of injection molding equipment being re-adjusted. First the machine was fed one color PP-pellets, …

At several occasions I had mentioned the ever growing number of art and design works that reconsider, reflect and remix the monobloc plastic chair. The current line count in my respective XLS-file stands at 82 (sic). A few weeks ago we compiled some of these statements into a little collage that well illustrates the most different strands of this only recently emerged parallel mono universe..

Actually, I have been looking for a pic like this for quite some time: The monobloc in a stylish fashion shooting or runway context. Brazilian designer Rita Wainer did it for her Spring/Summer 2008 collection show at Fashion Rio..

The first four images from Oman on ff, taken by Thomas Ch. Weber in Nizwa. Last one is a separate dining room for women in a local restaurant, ouch..

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