House Tales exhibition at Vitra Design Museum seems again at iconic interiors
Home areas designed by Karl Lagerfeld, Lina Bo Bardi and Finn Juhl seem within the House Tales: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors exhibition on the Vitra Design Museum, which seems into the historical past of residential interiors.
The Vitra Design Museum exhibition units out to stimulate conversations in regards to the non-public residence – an area which the museum’s director, Mateo Kries, and assistant curator, Anna-Mea Hoffman, assume has unfairly been omitted from “critical discourse”.
The exhibition’s first room has a mannequin of a micro-apartment designed by structure studio Elii
“With structure, there is a mass of magazines, zines, blogs and all the pieces – and in interiors, there’s almost nothing,” Kries instructed Dezeen.
“I feel there’s a number of causes: one might be that architects do homes, designers do objects, however the folks that do interiors are typically architects or designers – after which they see it on the periphery of their predominant work.”
“Home interiors are additionally simply merely not as accessible – structure could be judged by everybody,” added Hoffman.
A drawing of Assemble’s Granby 4 Streets mission is included within the exhibition
Hoffman and lead curator Jochen Eisenbrand determined to base the exhibition round 20 distinctive interiors that they felt would offer a complete overview of the historical past of western home design.
The interiors are represented by a number of furnishings items, drawings, quick movies or fashions, and have been purposefully organized in retrospective order.
“We all the time hope that we will study from the previous,” mentioned Hoffman.
“I feel the interiors that we’re residing in in the present day include many layers. I feel going previously with the exhibition is simply making an attempt to dig into these layers,” added Kries.
A part of the primary room is devoted to the affect of IKEA, and options classic copies of the furnishings firm’s catalogues
The primary room of the exhibition – titled House, Economic system and Ambiance – focuses on interiors accomplished from the yr 2000 to the current day, and the way they handle a few of modern society’s most urgent points.
On show is a scale mannequin of structure studio Elii’s Yojigen Poketto condominium – fitted with built-in furnishings and under-floor storage, the 33-square-metre dwelling was designed to counter the growing shortage of area and reasonably priced property in city cities.
“The previous has rather a lot to supply to modern debates” says Museum of the House director
One other portion of the room is devoted to Granby 4 Streets, a mission that noticed artistic collective Assemble preserve and repurpose a row of dilapidated homes in Liverpool that have been threatened by demolition.
The room additionally notes the ever-present nature of IKEA – one wall is mounted with classic problems with the furnishings firm’s catalogues, whereas one among its flat-pack cupboards has been suspended from the ceiling.
The exhibition’s second room highlights Karl Lagerfeld’s flat in Monte Carlo, which was stuffed with Memphis furnishings
Guests then wander by to the second exhibition area, Rethinking the Inside, which seems into the residing strategies and daring aesthetics that emerged between 1980 and 1960.
Standout initiatives featured within the room embody late clothier Karl Lagerfeld’s pied-à-terre in Monte Carlo, which was stuffed with Memphis furnishings – a motion thought-about uncommon on the time for its use of vibrant colors and sample.
One wall can also be mounted with an enormous picture of artist Andy Warhol’s Silver Manufacturing unit. Thought-about by the curators as an early instance of loft-style residing, the foil-covered dwelling blurred the boundaries between residing quarters, movie studio, workshop and haunt spot.
The room additionally exhibits Andy Warhol’s Silver Manufacturing unit – a foil-covered loft the place the artist lived and produced work
The third exhibition room – Nature and Know-how – concentrates on the years 1940 to 1960, exploring how interiors grew to become extra mechanised and open to the outside on this interval.
Among the many initiatives highlighted is Casa de Vidro. Created by Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi in 1951, the home has a glass facade that has uninterrupted views of Sao Paulo’s luscious inexperienced terrain.
There’s additionally a tan-leather iteration of designer Finn Juhl’s Cheiftain Chair on show, which takes cues from the undulating hills of the countryside.
The third exhibition area options Lina Bo Bardi’s Casa de Vidro, a glass-fronted dwelling in Sao Paulo
The fourth and remaining room, The Start of Trendy Interiors, lays out the important thing home design ideas that have been established between 1920 and 1940.
A part of the room spotlights Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat, one of many first non-public residences to have an open-plan format. There’s additionally a 1:1 mannequin of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Frankfurt Kitchen, a functionality-focused cooking suite.
One of many room’s cork show plinths presents a tan-leather version of Finn Juhl’s Cheiftain Chair
This is among the few full-scale inside replicas to look all through the exhibition, wherein gadgets are largely displayed on modular cork plinths created by Genoa-based studio House Caviar.
“In case you attempt to recreate one-to-one rooms in a museum, most of them look dusty and unused as a result of what’s missing is the principle factor – the folks that reside in them,” concluded Kries.
The fourth exhibition area showcases Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat, one of many first Western residences with an open-plan format
House Tales: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors will probably be displaying on the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, till 23 August 2020.