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INTERIORS, FURNITURE, AND PRODUCT DESIGN

PUBLISHER
Lars Müller Publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 384 pgs / 927 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2023 p. 33   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783037787106 TRADE
List Price: $75.00 CAD $113.00

AVAILABILITY
Out of stock

TERRITORY
NA LA

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), 10/28/22–02/05/23

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The Spirit of Chairs

The Chair Collection of Thierry Barbier-Mueller

Edited with foreword by Marie Barbier-Mueller. Text by Thierry Barbier-Mueller, Lorette Coen, Chantal Prod'Hom, Charlotte Savolainen-Mailler, Jamieson Webster, Robert Wilson.

The Spirit of Chairs

The chair as sculptural object: a surprising and delightful parade of seating that’s not always for sitting—from Ron Arad and Mary Heilmann to Maria Pergay and Richard Tuttle

The chairs in this book are not for everyday use. Occupying a unique terrain between design and art, they are sometimes intended to be sat on—but equally and most importantly, they explore the sculptural possibilities of the chair. The generous layout of this fun, surprising and substantial volume allows readers to fully immerse themselves in its many curiosities and give their imagination free rein. Nicolas Polli and Jean Vincent Simonet use their photographic essays to interpret these modern and contemporary chairs, while texts examine their fruitful friction between art and design and explain their significance in the life of their collector, Thierry Barbier-Mueller.
Designers and artists include: Ron Arad, Arca, Alexey Brodovitch, Choi Byung-Hun, Sandro Chia, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tom Dixon, Front Design, Frank Gehry, Godspeed, Michael Graves, Gruppe B.R.A.N.D., Mary Heilmann, Steven Holl, Richard Hutten, Franco Joly, Donald Judd, Shiro Kuramata, Daniel Libeskind, Xavier Lust, Javier Mariscal, Jasper Morrison, Bruno Munari, Marc Newson, Isamu Noguchi, Objects of Common Interest, Werner Panton, Maria Pergay, Tejo Remy, Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck, Richard Tuttle, Maria Uys, Franz West and Zoom Design.


PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Indulge

Ghalib Dhalla

The generous layout of this fun, surprising and substantial volume allows readers to fully immerse themselves in its many curiosities and give their imagination free rein.

The Spirit of Chairs

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/16/2023

Design meets sculpture in 'The Spirit of Chairs'

Design meets sculpture in 'The Spirit of Chairs'

Featured spreads are from Lars Müller Publishers’ gorgeous clothbound new release The Spirit of Chairs, collecting superb examples of chair design—from to Isamu Noguchi to Gaetano Pesce, Donald Judd to Mary Heilmann—from the world renowned collection of Thierry Barbier-Mueller. Featuring no fewer than 927 reproductions of works by more than 300 visionaries across various disciplines, this is a design-lover’s nirvana—as playful as it is hard-core experimental. “I was initially intrigued by original and occasionally outlandish chairs, prototypes which, in some instances, remained unique pieces, never put into production,” Barbier-Mueller writes. “It goes without saying that at that time, in the 1980s and 1990s, the market wasn’t yet turning artists and designers into superstars. Eventually I realized just how timeless this object, the chair, is—spanning centuries, crossing continents—and how much it had inspired a broad range of designers and artists, styles and cultures. … The ultimate magic of an object by [a true] maker is that it stands alone, requiring no explanation, no special knowledge. A chair is a chair for one and all! Revolutionary, wacky, innovative, humorous, ironic, joyous, elegant, boring, surprising, spare, mysterious, makeshift, cheeky, brutal, sophisticated, practical, impractical or straight-out unusable, the character of each piece is understandable to everyone. No words are needed—even though a title may occasionally add a bit of spice—no mediation is required to borrow a term currently in fashion and fairly irritating. It is an art that is free and that sets us free, encouraging each of us to explore rather than to identify.” continue to blog


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