Bone chair

Bone chair

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This aluminium chair has an organic look, but the design was in fact created through computer calculations. To develop his Bone Chair, Joris Laarman used software developed by the automotive industry. Based on growth models of bones, the program calculates how to create the strongest possible construction using the least amount of material. Car parts can be thicker in some places and thinner in others, just like mammalian bones. This chair is the result of applying this principle.  [text 2023]

This object is now not on display in the museum

Title

Bone chair

Artist

Dating

2007

Material and technique

aluminium

Object number

30239

Object type

meubel, stoel

Acquisition

aankoop 2007

Dimensions

hoogte 76.5 cm

breedte 44.8 cm

diepte 77 cm

Inscriptions and markings

  • signatuur onder de zitting :

Remarks

In oplage van 12 uitgevoerd.

De 'Bone Chair maakt deel uit van het project 'Smart Deco' dat Droog Design in 2006 in samenwerking met Barry Friedman Gallery New York heeft gepresenteerd tijdens Art Basel Miami 2006. Bij de productie is gebruik gemaakt van een computerprogramma ontwikkeld door Prof. Dr. Claus Mattheck voor de autoindustrie. De vorm en groei van het menselijk beendergestel is uitgangspunt voor dit programma.

Documentation

  • Bone Chair van Joris Laarman, Peter van Ardenne, (Collect : kunst & antiekjournaal, 21, 9, winter 2016/2017), 96, p. 96, met 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. 44, p. 45 afb. in kleur

  • Collect : kunst & antiekjournaal, chef red. /verantwoordelijke uitg. Els Bracke ; eindred. Frederik Barends, Reinold Stuurman, Schiedam, jrg. 16, feb 2011, nr. 1, p-p 45/57, met afb. in kleur

Exhibitions

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

  • Enter past and see the future, Hotel Droog, Amsterdam, 2018

  • Van stoelen bezeten, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem, 2014 - 2015

Persistent url

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.4B3A7D4C-92DE-47AB-86FB-F9C6B841D522

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