ISBN:
978-3-936681-36-9
,
3-936681-36-8
Language:
English
,
German
Pages:
95 S.
,
zahlr. Ill.
DDC:
709.5
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-2009
;
Chair design Exhibitions
;
Chairs Exhibitions
;
Sitting customs Exhibitions
;
Kultur
;
Sitzmöbel
;
Sitzen
;
China
;
Ausstellungskatalog 2009
;
Ausstellungskatalog 2009
;
China
;
Sitzmöbel
;
Geschichte 1500-2009
;
China
;
Sitzen
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1500-2009
Abstract:
The way we sit simultaneously defines privileges, social status, power, and taboos. Parallel to the presentation of China as the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt presents a panorama of Chinese sitting culture through a period of five centuries. Exclusive, noble Ming chairs stand side by side with chairs of the 18th and 19th century used by the middle class of that time. Limited sitting sculptures by renowned artist designers such as Shao Fan, Freeman Lau, Kenneth Cobonpue, XYZ-Design and Ji Liwei, who is also in charge of the interior design of the Chinese pavilion at the book fair, are confronted with the bourgeois sofas and sitting of the Chinese middle class of today
Note:
Text dt. und engl.
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