Chair Times

Chair Times

So, how long have you been sat sitting there?

Since March?

Time to get up off your bum and see the world?

OK, so it isn’t too easy is it? What with lock downs and quarantines, we cant get out to our favourite museums.

How about a film instead? Maybe a film about chairs, how does that sound?

OK then, get yourself over to vitra to view Chair Times, A History of Seating – From 1800 to Today

“Chair Times” charts a course through an ocean of chairs. In the focus are 125 objects from the Collection of the Vitra Design Museum. Arranged according to their year of production, they illustrate development from 1807 to the very latest designs straight off the 3D printer, forming a timeline to modern seating design.

The film features many people whose vocations involve design and who are experts in the field, such as designers Hella Jongerius, Antonio Citterio and Ronan Bouroullec, architects and collectors Arthur Rüegg and Ruggero Tropeano, architect David Chipperfield, Director Emeritus of MAK Vienna/Los Angeles Peter Noever, Mateo Kries, Director of the Vitra Design Museum, Vitra Design Museum curators Amelie Klein, Jochen Eisenbrand and collection curator Serge Mauduit.

And your guide through the history of chairs is Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman Emeritus of Vitra.”

A film by: Heinz Bütler
Production: HOOK Film & Kultur Produktion GmbH in cooperation with the Vitra Design Museum, 2018

Project Vitra