'the ghost of a chair'
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mexican-born london-based designer valentina gonzalez wohlers continues her exploration of the
reinterpretation of immateriality, by expanding on her 'the ghost of a chair' project. first exhibited in 2009,
wohlers has now developed the chair into a series of 13 hand-made one-of-a-kind pieces, all exhibited at
designersblock during london design week 2010.



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the chairs are an apparition from death, revealed to the living as a nebulous image, manifesting itself,
but not actually existing: only its memory and its disembodied spirit captured and frozen in time.
this is wohler's vision for her 'the ghost of a chair' furniture project.



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the chairs are all hand-made from a 4mm transparent acrylic sheet, each one's form unrepeatable due to
its manufacturing process. a faint sheet, immaterial and transparent, drapes over a louis XV chair,
falling over its soft curves and styled armrests, reaching the floor with full pleats and static movement.



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the drapery of the chairs can be as spiritual as the ghosts themselves. the most prominent feature of each
is their gross materiality, as they seem to be conspicuously clothed.



installation view of 'the ghost of a chair' furniture project at designersblock 2010
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some of the ghostly chairs
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individual chairs
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individual chairs
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installation view of the 13 ghostly chairs at designersblock 2010
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image by maxime champion
courtesy of valentina glez wohlers



image by maxime champion
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draping experimentation
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documentation of the manufacturing process
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documentation of the manufacturing process
images courtesy of valentina gonzalez wohlers