Mixed Seats is exhibition of ” suggestions for what a chair could be”

Designer Ali Shah Gallefoss invited 15 creatives to design their very own interpretation of a chair that’s appropriate for a public area, all of which had been introduced as a current exhibition in Oslo, Norway.

Known as Blended Seats, the exhibition was curated by Shah Gallefoss and exhibition platform Pyton.

It featured an set up of concrete chairs from Norwegian creatives together with designers Henrik Ødegaard and Maja Pauline Bang Haugsgjerd, which had been organized in a cluster outdoors at a sq. subsequent to Oslobukta purchasing centre.

The challenge stemmed from Pyton inviting the individuals to a cocktail party for which they had been requested to design and produce their very own chairs.

Architect, designer and artist Tron Meyer created a textured blue seat with a chunky backrest whereas architect Jonas Løland supplied a sandy-hued stool with three-pronged legs.

“The chairs are particular person recommendations for what a chair could possibly be,” Shah Gallefoss informed Dezeen.

“They’re enjoyable, daring, bizarre, critical, and playful, similar to the group of people that made them.”

Whereas the creatives had been free so as to add further supplies to their chairs, they had been instructed to make use of concrete as their base materials. The furnishings was made at a collective workshop held in Drammen.

Among the choices function color whereas others had been stored easy, comparable to an ambiguous, tough concrete stool within the form of a star or flower by designer Christoph Boulmer.

“The variation in styles and sizes made an interesting composition,” mirrored Shah Gallefoss.

“After they arrived on the sq. at Oslobukta they seemed like small ants, with the large Munch museum within the background.”

Shah Gallefoss himself contributed a chair design to the exhibition with a squat concrete seat hooked up to a sculptural metallic backrest.

After the exhibition was dismantled, the curator defined that every of the chairs has travelled to a brand new location to be repurposed in numerous methods.

Industrial designer Falke Svatun created seating constituted of two summary cylindrical concrete parts that has now been positioned in Oslo’s Sentralen restaurant whereas product designer Bjørn van de Berg’s stool featured at Stockholm Design Week.

“It’s [often said] that Norwegians do not like to sit down subsequent to a different individual on the bus,” joked Shah Gallefoss.

“However the majority of out of doors furnishings [created] is benches that invite folks to sit down down and disturb your peace and quiet. That made me take into consideration private area in a public setting.”

In addition to exploring appropriate seating for public areas, one other key goal of Blended Seats was to showcase and encourage multidisciplinary creativity throughout Norway, in response to Shah Gallefoss.

“I hope that by introducing fifteen creatives [to each other], the exhibition will plant a seed that may develop and strengthen collaborative efforts between the completely different disciplines, and ultimately, construct a stronger design business,” he concluded.

Different current chair designs embrace a chubby furnishings assortment by Holloway Li and Uma Objects that was introduced at London Design Competition and a chair made from plastic garbage by design studio Area Out there and DJ Peggy Gou.

Blended Seats was on show as a part of Oslo Runway in Norway, which came about from 23 to twenty-eight August in Oslo, Norway. See Dezeen Occasions Information for an up-to-date record of structure and design occasions happening around the globe.