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Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways
Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways
Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways
Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways
Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways
Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways
Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways

Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways

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Dent-de-Leone, 2012, Softcover, 100 pages, 24 × 14.5 cm

Some ten years ago, the London-based, Italian-born furniture designer initiated his project, 100 Chairs in 100 Days. He made a new chair a day for a hundred days by collaging together bits of chairs that he found discarded on the street or in friends’ homes. Blending found stylistic and structural elements, he generated perverse, poetic, and humorous hybrids. The project combined formal and functional questions with sociological and semiological ones. Or, as Gamper put it: ‘What happens to the status and potential of a plastic garden chair when it is upholstered with luxurious yellow suede?’ The project was all about being creative, but within restrictions—being limited to materials at hand and the time available, with the requirement that each new chair be unique. Gamper's ‘three-dimensional sketchbook’ brought him international recognition.