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Tobias Rehberger

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Tobias Rehberger, ‘We Never Work on Sundays’ (1994)

Rehberger – from memory and with scant regard to technical accuracy – drew icons of 20th century design, including pieces by Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto and Gerrit Rietveld. He then took them to Cameroon and, working with local artist Pascale Martine Tayou, employed Cameroonian craftsmen to make replicas based on the drawings.


Michael Kluver

‘Breuer’, ‘Rietveld’ and ‘Eames’ from the series ‘Just chairs’ (2011) by Michael Kluver

The chairs in Kluver’s series are altered versions of modernist design classics. All pushed back into the simple archetypal form, all of them now are dominated by simple ergonomic dimensions. Same seating height, seating width, seating depth, overall height, and angle of the backrest.