Word: schuldenfrei
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...Robin Schuldenfrei, a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Design and the exhibit’s organizer, placed each chair in front of a large-scale photograph of one of the architects’ buildings. The chairs merge into the background and become part of the scene, providing the illusion of a natural habitat...
...Schuldenfrei explains that the modern architects displayed in the exhibit were concerned with new ideas for a new way of living. In various ways, the chairs in the exhibit display attempts to deal with ideas of health, indoor and outdoor living, the use of new materials and technologies and functionalism and rationalism. Le Corbusier, one of the featured artists, famously called a house a “machine for living.” The chair is something of a machine for rest, Schuldenfrei says. Each one is meticulously created, with intentionality behind every material, angle, and seat cushion...
...Schuldenfrei compares the resulting floating form to Salvador Dali’s surrealism. The Eames backdrop is not a photograph but a plan for a room. The walls, tables, lamps and chairs are all carefully planned elements, demonstrating that architecture is inside and outside, big and small...
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