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[13 Nov 2009 | One Comment | ]
Prosthetics I (Legs)

As people can live without a leg or two, so can monobloc plastic chairs. Various examples from around the world.

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[11 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Website Fixes I (Updated)

When we upgraded and thoroughly redesigned the website a few months ago, category attributes and photo references were being completely mixed up unfortunately. I just sat down for half a day and got the first category properly back online. “Art & Design” is now accessible from now going back to the 2004 beginnings…

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[11 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Mono-Museum: NON IKEA at MKG Hamburg

I was in Hamburg last Friday to find out how my “Pedro”-Monobloc fared, that I had lent to the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe for their current side show NON IKEA, which accompanies the larger FENOMEN IKEA exhibition the museum has staged together with the Munich Neue Sammlung

Art & Design »

[9 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Too Close

While it is ever getting harder to make original and innovative statements with and about the plastic chair, it makes ever less sense since most everything is said and done. You may risk failure – or you may just copy..

Stories »

[4 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Volker Albus on the Monobloc in Form magazine

Volker Albus, designer, educator and researcher, has published a piece about the Monobloc plastic chair in Form 228 (September 2009):
Who is Afraid of the Monobloc?

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[3 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Kurt Cobain, photographed by Juergen Teller

German Zeit Magazin recently started a series with photos and stories by Juergen Teller. In issue #44 (22 October 2009) we see Kurt Cobain backstage in Berlin during Nirvana´s seminal Nevermind tour in 1990. Just one chair wouldn´t do.