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Would you buy a wooden copy of the world's best-selling plastic chair? It's the Monobloc.
The mass-produced version is one piece of injection-moulded plastic. Its low cost made the Monobloc a commercial success from the 1970s.
The more recent wooden replica series was carefully crafted of elm. Skill, material, and exclusivity perhaps turn this familiar, mass-produced household shape into art.
Conceived of by Dutch designer Maarten Baas in 2008 while in China to study local artistic and cultural practices, Baas’ wooden interpretation reflects the contradictions he observed in Shanghai: cheap versus expensive, common versus luxury, machine-produced versus crafted, disposable versus collectible, and original versus copy.
Baas' 50 limited-edition chairs challenge viewers to consider the aesthetic design of the original humble, plastic Monobloc.
The Victoria & Albert Museum collection has both.
#design #art #concept #furniture #chair #Monobloc #wood #plastic #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum
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Would you buy a wooden copy of the world's best-selling plastic chair? It's the Monobloc.
The mass-produced version is one piece of injection-moulded plastic. Its low cost made the Monobloc a commercial success from the 1970s.
The more recent wooden replica series was carefully crafted of elm. Skill, material, and exclusivity perhaps turn this familiar, mass-produced household shape into art.
Conceived of by Dutch designer Maarten Baas in 2008 while in China to study local artistic and cultural practices, Baas’ wooden interpretation reflects the contradictions he observed in Shanghai: cheap versus expensive, common versus luxury, machine-produced versus crafted, disposable versus collectible, and original versus copy.
Baas' 50 limited-edition chairs challenge viewers to consider the aesthetic design of the original humble, plastic Monobloc.
The Victoria & Albert Museum collection has both.
#design #art #concept #furniture #chair #Monobloc #wood #plastic #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum
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Der #NDR hat übrigens noch bis nächsten März die #Monobloc Doku online: https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/ndr-dokfilm/monobloc/ndr/Y3JpZDovL25kci5kZS80NjMyXzIwMjMtMDItMDEtMDAtMDA
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Du hast keine Lust auf die #Euro2024 und #Fussball? Wie wäre es mit einer unterhaltsamen #Doku über das meist verkaufte Möbelstück der Welt, dem #Monobloc in der Mediathek https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/ndr-dokfilm/monobloc/ndr/Y3JpZDovL25kci5kZS80NjMyXzIwMjMtMDItMDEtMDAtMDA #DokuLiebe
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Iceland Airwaves adds Overmono, English Teacher, Vaccines, Lambrini Girls, Sóley & more to 2024 lineup
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/iceland-airwaves-adds-overmono-english-teacher-vaccines-lambrini-girls-soley-more-to-2024-lineup/#brooklynvegan_category_music #Music #tour_dates #2024_music_festival_lineups #Alice_Longyu_Gao #Benefits #Cumgirl8 #english_teacher #Gabríel_Ólafs #HILDUR #Iceland_Airwaves #lambrini_girls #lynks #Monobloc #OVERMONO #personal_trainer #Pétur_Ben #Soley #Teitur_Magnusson #The_Vaccines #Villano_Antillano #wu_lu
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15. Unknown, Monobloc Chair, 20th Century
In contrast to the LC4 Chaise Longue, the monobloc chair has realized the dream of modernism in design: functional simplicity devoid of ornament, suitable for mass production and adapted to the lives of the modern masses: think how much easier than dragging your LC4 chaise longue across the room of your machine for living it is to carry your stack of monoblocs up the stairs to your apartment rooftop.
Once on that apartment rooftop for a while, however, the problems of modernity start to become evident. Plastic, that most modern of materials, starts to crack and break up in the sunlight. With rain and cloud, mildew begins to grow. You bring them back downstairs, and as children, pets, studded jeans, boxes, and sharp or roughly surfaced objects abrade the sometime virgin smoothness of the polypropylene, grime accumulates, and the pieces become just more of those dirty, depressing plastic chairs dumped by globalization on every inhabited spot on the planet.
Very well, then - let's get rid of them! Easier said than done. They can go in the trash or recycling, but does the plastic ever really go away?
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Der Dokumentarfilm erzählt die Geschichte eines unscheinbaren, von vielen verlachten Möbelstücks, das die Welt eroberte. Wie der billige Plastikstuhl Existenzen zerstört und Reichtum beschert. Wie er die Umwelt bedroht und den guten Geschmack. Um 22.25 Uhr im Programm und hier in der Mediathek: https://www.3sat.de/film/dokumentarfilmzeit/monobloc---auf-der-spur-des-meistverkauften---moebelstuecks-aller-zeiten-100.html#xtor=CS1-20
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Der Dokumentarfilm erzählt die Geschichte eines unscheinbaren, von vielen verlachten Möbelstücks, das die Welt eroberte. Wie der billige Plastikstuhl Existenzen zerstört und Reichtum beschert. Wie er die Umwelt bedroht und den guten Geschmack. Um 22.25 Uhr im Programm und hier in der Mediathek: https://www.3sat.de/film/dokumentarfilmzeit/monobloc---auf-der-spur-des-meistverkauften---moebelstuecks-aller-zeiten-100.html#xtor=CS1-20
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Just watched this on YT. Reminded me of a feature we did in Real Living back in the day.
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Noch zu hören:
„MONOBLOC – Auf der Spur von einer Milliarde Plastikstühlen in 6 Teilen“
(#NDR/#DLF Kultur 2022)> „Er ist aus #Plastik, hat runde Ecken, ist billig und steht überall herum. Der #Monobloc ist das meistverkaufte Möbelstück aller Zeiten. […] Für die einen bedroht er den guten Geschmack und ist eine enorme Gefahr für die #Umwelt, für die anderen ist er der einzig erschwingliche #Stuhl überhaupt.“
🔗 https://www.hoerspielundfeature.de/monobloc-uebersicht-100.html