'formless furniture' at mak vienna

'formless furniture' at mak vienna


'portrait of my mother’s chesterfield chair' by gunnar aagaard andersen, 1964 (© tecta/mak)

beginning on may 28, mak will be presenting their new exhibition 'formless furniture'. the exhibit will be on show
until october 10 featuring pieces of furniture which tend to stray of their conventional form. sebastian
hackenschmidt is the show's curator. the works on show have been culled from the world of furniture and art,
spanning from the 1960's to today. mak, the austrian museum of applied and contemporary art is located in
vienna.

http://www.mak.at


chair from experimental edges series by frank gehry, 1980 (© mak/georg mayer)


'corallo' for edra by fernando & humberto campana 2004 (© mak/georg mayer)


'pools and pouf' for the klaus engelhorn edition by robert stadler, 2004 (© mak/georg mayer)


'i feltri' for cassina by gaetano pesce, 1987 (© mak/georg mayer)


'sacco' for zanotta by piero gatti, cesare paolini and franco teodoro, 1968
(© mak/georg mayer)



'parker' by forrest myers, 2006 (© friedman benda/mak)


'pratt chair' by gaetano pesce, 1983 (© mak/georg mayer)
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