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Miniatures Collection - Knotted Chai

Marcel Wanders, 1996

Knotted Chair is made of knotted netting soaked in artificial resin and simply hung out to dry. This produces a highly expressive seat shell which is as fragile, transparent and light as a hammock but is as solid as a seat should be. The use of simple knotted cords gives Knotted Chair that additional »warm«, personal feeling.

Wanders description of Knotted Chair: »The design is based on three innovations. Firstly, the process of hardening a textile in such a way that it can serve as a constructional element, becoming part of the structure of a three-dimensional product. Secondly, the use of knotting techniques to create curved, solid surfaces and structures. Thirdly, the manufacture of an industrial product made of plastic without resorting to a mould, but by simply making use of gravity and artificial resin as a stiffening agent.

Of course these factors are decisive in determining the quality of the chair. I personally, however, I am more enthusiastic about the chair's formal appeal and the meaning its external appearance lends it. It is a chair which tells you it was made for you alone, with a great deal of love, creativity and care, a chair which thus has its own personal and individual character, a chair which shows its relationship to you by letting you see different details every time you use it.

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Miniatures Collection

Depuis plus de 20 ans, le Vitra Design Museum reproduit en miniature les jalons de l'histoire du design de mobilier de sa propre collection. La Miniatures Collection englobe toute l'histoire du mobilier industriel – de l'historicisme et de l'Art Nouveau au Bauhaus et à la Nouvelle Objectivité, du Radical Design et du Postmodernisme à nos jours. Les chaises sont reproduites à l'échelle un sixième et reproduisent fidèlement l'original historique jusqu'au moindre détail de conception, de matériau et de nuance de couleur. Cette précision des détails s'applique aussi aux nervures du bois, à la reproduction des vis ou aux méthodes minutieuses de la fabrication artisanale. Ces miniatures sont non seulement de précieux objets de collection, mais également un support pédagogique pour les universités, les écoles de design et les architectes.