Object
Concrete
Moulded concrete and steel pipings
89,00 cm
, 1982
RKM 45-1984
Gift from Collection Källemo AB
Currently not on display
Description
Chair with seat and back in concrete, the back also functions as a rear leg. Armrest and front legs of tubular steel. The concrete chair was produced in 100 signed and numbered copies. Also made in small series of lacquered wood.
When Jonas Bohlin showed the Concrete chair as his degree project at Konstfack, it received great attention and is now regarded as a Swedish design classic. Since its launch, this work by Jonas Bohlin has become a watershed in Swedish furniture design. Concrete fulfils no objective quality criteria, but it still exists. It can’t be avoided. The chair stands there, like a concrete grey and slightly rusty exclamation mark, a memorial to a time when everything changed.
Literature
Dan Gordan, Svenska stolar och deras formgivare 1899-2001, red., Byggförlaget, Stockholm, 2002., p. 244, ill. p. 245
Exhibition History
Röhsska museets formhistoria – 1851 till idag, Göteborg, Röhsska museet, 16/01/2004 - 27/03/2022