Object
Bronze Age Lounge Chair
Bronze Age Lounge Chair
Bronze is a valuable material that also retains its value. For that reason, it is always saved or recast as something new. This makes Frank Tjepkema’s chair a sustainable piece of furniture. Once upon a time, the bronze of this chair could have been used for coins, or a sword. Tjepkema made this furniture piece entirely by hand, as a commentary on rapid contemporary production techniques such as 3D printing. Although the chair seems light and fragile because of its slender parts, it is actually robust and heavy. [text]
- Maker
- Frank Tjepkema
- Title
- Bronze Age Lounge Chair
- Dating
- 2014-01-01
- Object number
- 35822
- Collection
- toegepaste kunst, meubels
- Materials
- brons
- Technique
- brons
- Dimensions
- Acquisition
- aankoop (2023)
- Acquisition credit
- aankoop 2023, gedeeld eigendom met het Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven met steun van Gemeente Eindhoven, Mondriaan Fonds, Stichting Promotors Van Abbemuseum, VriendenLoterij
- Inscriptions and marks
- :
- Rights
- Collectie Centraal Museum Utrecht / foto Adriaan van Dam