CHAIR TIMES. A HISTORY OF SEATING
Durata: 90 min
Lingua: TEDESCO SOTT INGLESE E SOTT INTALIANO
Regia: Heinz Butler
The privileged sounding board for design shares with us the times for rest, for work and for convivial moments. He decorates. Its functions can be infinite and its interpretations unlimited. It could be that, the chair, despite being a basic object, has no elementary element. Sensitive to the change of eras, it keeps evolving. All the new techniques and industrial, social and cultural progress, imprints his memory. The director Heinz Bütler examines 125 of them datable between 1800 and today, in what could be defined The Seating Temple, the Vitra Design Museum. With one of the greatest experts of the subject concerned, and also owner, it’s Rolf Felhbaum, who shares and collects the reflections and anecdotes of designers, critics and directors of museums. The charm of history is also given by the suggestions that it evokes.
90 min
Lingua: TEDESCO SOTT INGLESE E SOTT INTALIANO
Regia: Heinz Butler
The privileged sounding board for design shares with us the times for rest, for work and for convivial moments. He decorates. Its functions can be infinite and its interpretations unlimited. It could be that, the chair, despite being a basic object, has no elementary element. Sensitive to the change of eras, it keeps evolving. All the new techniques and industrial, social and cultural progress, imprints his memory. The director Heinz Bütler examines 125 of them datable between 1800 and today, in what could be defined The Seating Temple, the Vitra Design Museum. With one of the greatest experts of the subject concerned, and also owner, it’s Rolf Felhbaum, who shares and collects the reflections and anecdotes of designers, critics and directors of museums. The charm of history is also given by the suggestions that it evokes.