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Episode #14
What if a decanter came back from school?
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2018
Credits
Music Composer - Arnaud Pujol
Curator - Evelien Bracke
Designer - Deborah Janssens
Designer - Gaston Eysselinck
Head of Production - Giel Vandecaveye
Researcher - Eva Van Regenmortel
Designer - Verner Panton
Architect - Carlo Scarpa
Panton Chair
Designer - Verner Panton
The Panton Chair is an S-shaped plastic chair created by the Danish designer Verner Panton in the 1960s. The world's first moulded plastic chair, it is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Danish design. The idea of designing a stackable plastic chair was first expressed by the German architect and designer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe before the Second World War. From the early 1950s, Panton too had dreamt of making a stackable, cantilevered plastic chair all in one piece. It is said he had been inspired in particular by a neatly stacked pile of plastic buckets. In 1956, he designed the S Chair which can be considered a forerunner of the Panton Chair. He saw it as an item of furniture in which the back, seat and legs were made of the continuous piece. It was first produced in 1965.
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Office Chair
Designer - Gaston Eysselinck
Gaston Eysselinck, Office Chair, 1931, steel and wood. Collection Design museum Gent
Decanter
Architect - Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa was born in Venice in 1906, and died an accidental death in Japan in 1978. Like many great artists, Scarpa’s work as architect and designer is highly influential and yet remains enigmatic, illusive and hard to categorize. What is obvious in all his work is an underlying transcendental quality, an uncanny ability to create powerful emotional states in all who experience it. It is perhaps this quality that makes him one of the most beloved and revered figures in the history of 20th century Italian art and design.
