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New Material, New FormThis innovative stacking chair is arguably Danish designer Verner Panton’s best known work. While not the first cantilevered chair—Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld’s 1934 wooden Zig-Zag chair is an earlier example—the Panton chair was the first cantilevered chair made from a single piece of injection-molded plastic. Its fluid organic shape is made to fit the human form. Verner Panton, Herman Miller, chair, plastic, Denmark, furniture, Pop Culture |
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Imperfect BeautyVisionary, prophetic, subversive, and marginal all describe the Italian architect and designer, Gaetano Pesce, whose innovative experiments with materials and production methods transform common industrial materials into expressive shapes for objects, furniture, and interiors. For Pesce, designing is not so much about form or aesthetics as it is about the discovery of new materials and technological processes. gaetano pesce, chair, Nobody's Perfect, plastic, I Separabili, furniture design |
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A Tree Grows In The BackyardDespite the 21st century’s advances in science, technology and medicine, no one has yet been able to conquer death. As it has throughout history, death remains the great leveler, for kings and junkies, barmaids and opera singers. Everyone dies; there’s no app for that. Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition, death, mortality, Capsula Mundi, coffin, biodegradable, cornstarch, plastic, tree, blog post, follow up, eco-burial, discussion, online, relics, primal, fear |
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Green Burials: Recycling our Loved OnesOver the next two weeks on the Cooper-Hewitt Design Blog, students from an interdisciplinary graduate-level course on the Triennial taught by the Triennial curatorial team blog their impressions and inspirations of the current exhibition,‘Why Design Now?’. Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition, death, mortality, Capsula Mundi, Anna Citelli, Raoul Bretzel, coffin, biodegradable, cornstarch, plastic, tree, eco-burial, cremation, ashes, Nadine Jarvis, bird-feeder, mold, materials |
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Slideshow: Making Trans... chairFernando and Humberto explain their TransPlastic series as a fictional story wherein, in a world made of plastic, synthetic matter eventually becomes fertile ground for transgenic creations in which nature grows from and eventually overpowers plastic. Campana Brothers, Fernando Campana, Humberto Campana, brothers, furniture design, chair, Trans Chair, story, plastic, wicker, materials, woven, nature, transgenic, collection, Select, Exhibition, elements, dual, permanent collection, Brazil, slides |
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