Geknoopte stoel

Geknoopte stoel

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user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent"> ultra-light carbon </SPAN><SPAN class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW144558607 BCX0" style="BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x; BORDER-BOTTOM: transparent 1px solid; BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent">fibre</SPAN><SPAN class="NormalTextRun SCXW144558607 BCX0" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent">. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB class="TextRun SCXW144558607 BCX0" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; user-select: text; 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As a result, this </SPAN><SPAN class="NormalTextRun SCXW144558607 BCX0" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent">very light</SPAN><SPAN class="NormalTextRun SCXW144558607 BCX0" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent"> chair – weighing just 1.4 kg – becomes very robust. [text 2023]</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV>

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The Knotted Chair consists of knotted rope made of ultra-strong aramid and ultra-light carbon fibre. After knotting the chair, it is submerged upside down in coating and then hung up to dry. As a result, this very light chair – weighing just 1.4 kg – becomes very robust. [text 2023]

This object is now not on display in the museum

Title

Geknoopte stoel

Artist

Dating

1995

Material and technique

carbon- en aramidefiber; epoxy; macramétechniek

Object number

28211

Object type

meubel, stoel, leunstoel

Acquisition

aankoop 1997

Dimensions

hoogte 73.5 cm

breedte 56 cm

diepte 61.5 cm

Inscriptions and markings

    Documentation

    • A human touch : every product tells a story, ed. Renny Ramakers, (Amsterdam, 2006), verg. pp. 124-125, afb. in kleur

    • Centraal Museum Utrecht [topstukken; 2020], Voorw. Bart Rutten, Marco Grob, Jacqueline Rutten (prod.), Hans Schopping, Sheila Stafleu, Lotte Bont, Thomas de Bruin (red.), (Utrecht, 2020), p. 40, p. 41 afb. in kleur

    • Droog & Dutch Design : from product to fashion : the collection of the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, [voorw. Sjarel Ex]. [samenst. Ida van Zijl, José Teunissen], (Utrecht, 2000), p. 171, afb. in kleur

    Exhibitions

    • Stoel neemt stelling, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2023 - 2024

    • Vroeg Droog, Erasmushuis, Jakarta, 2018 - 2019

    • Vroeg Droog, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2017

    Persistent url

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    https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.FE7F2996-2B31-40E8-8DD0-159A45C12B29

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