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Episode #15
What if a piece of furniture was a cop?
— Starring &
2018
Credits
Music Composer - Arnaud Pujol
Curator - Evelien Bracke
Cabinet Maker - Michael Thonet
Production - Peter Vander Motten
Designer - Shiro Kuramata
Digital Communication - Simon Adriaensen
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Cabinet Maker - Michael Thonet
The main personality behind the establishment of the world-famous company producing bent furniture was the ingenious inventor, cabinetmaker and furniture designer, Michael Thonet (1796–1871). In 1849, he founded the company “Thonet Söhne” in Vienna, which was later renamed to “Gebrüder Thonet” and, as early as in 1851, he introduced the so-called Viennese chairs of bent wood at the World Exhibition in London, for which he received bronze medal. Four years later, it was already silver medal and in 1867 in Paris, golden medal for the most famous chair of all times – Chair No. 14. The success of the native from the Rhineland city of Boppard, Michael Thonet, and his five sons reached the highest upswing in Moravia where their factories in Koryčany (1857) and Bystřice pod Hostýnem (1861) gained fame on a global scale thanks to their spirit of enterprise, the vast beech forests and the great skills of the local workers.
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Pyramid
Designer - Shiro Kuramata
Pyramid is a chest of drawers on castors. Pyramid-shaped structure in transparent acrylic resin, 17 drawers in black acrylic resin. The drawers range in dimensions from the top to the bottom. Shiro Kuramata was a Japanese designer from 1965 when he founded the Kuramata Design Office in Tokyo until he died in 1991. Kuramata designed some of the most significant and lasting pieces ever produced. His significance in western design was shown first in Memphis, then with Cappellini in 1987. Cappellini celebrated his talent and made him its choice designer to introduce the Cappellini brand on the international stage. His work can be seen in the permanent collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, MoMA of New York, the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Toyama.
