If a leather shoe nose can keep its shape, then surely it must work with other products too, thought designer Niels van Eijk. That idea brought him to design the Cow Chair, as his graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Instead of using tanned leather he used a raw, untreated cow hide. The wet hide is stretched around a mould with counter moulds to create the seat. No frame, epoxy or preservative is used; only hide, water, and tension. The hide takes several days to dry – and the result is this chair. [text 2023]
Title
Cow chair (unicum)
Artist
Niels van Eijk (ontwerper) (Someren 1970)
Droog Design (promotor)
Dating
1997
Material and technique
Object number
28635
Object type
Acquisition
aankoop met steun van de Mondriaan Stichting 2000
Dimensions
hoogte 76.5 cm
breedte 43.5 cm
diepte 44.5 cm
Inscriptions and markings
- merk achterzijde (gebrandmerkt): NVE
Remarks
Afstudeerproject Design Academie Eindhoven.
Documentation
- Less + More : Droog Design in context, Renny Ramakers (Rotterdam, 2002), verg. p. 93, afb. in kleur
Exhibitions
- Stoel neemt stelling, Centraal Museum
- Vroeg Droog, Erasmushuis
- Vroeg Droog, Centraal Museum
Persistent url
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