Georgia Weitenberg
Bent Wood Chair, 2021
Southern Mahogany
85 x 50 x 50 cm
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Bent Wood Chair is an ironic one-liner. A wry description of exactly what is perceived, and by allusion, everything the chair is not when a Thonet Bentwood is the measure....
Bent Wood Chair is an ironic one-liner. A wry description of exactly what is perceived, and by allusion, everything the chair is not when a Thonet Bentwood is the measure. Like something from a doll house, made life size, this piece is an exploration of the aesthetics and materiality of scale, and how the objects from our childhood condition our ideals of domesticity and taste. It explores the strangeness of rescaling forms designed in miniature to macro scale, leaving everything odd and uneven.
Bent Wood Chair is an uncanny mix of modernist & vernacular styles and distorted proportions, a challenge to conventional taste and with its own peculiar charm. It combines the precision of machine fabrication with the character and nostalgia of an archetypal, craft-style chair to reimagine an object for the home in 2023.
Bent Wood Chair is an uncanny mix of modernist & vernacular styles and distorted proportions, a challenge to conventional taste and with its own peculiar charm. It combines the precision of machine fabrication with the character and nostalgia of an archetypal, craft-style chair to reimagine an object for the home in 2023.
Exhibitions
Foreign Dialogues, Melbourne Design Week 2023, for FIN Gallery2
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