Designer Colin Knight has presented one exhibition Hero’s debris is called in superhouse gallery in ideological furniture New york World War related materials and symbols, including a piece, which includes a piece Emees Glider Chair Prototype.
Virginia -based designer knightExhibition on Superhouse gallery A fictional British fighter pilot and a real Nazi pilot, as an ideological story between Joseph Beyes, are experiencing different stages of war.
The story is reported in a series of leather panels that were displayed on the wall of Tribka Gallery.
It refers to complex mid-centenary design and art heritage as an artist availing the medieval design talents such as Charles and Ray Ems for the Nazi Air Force’s participation in the Nazi Air Force and the war of war.
“One of the more subtle underlying stories reflects the direct and disturbing connection between the mid -century design and the World War two,” Knight explained the Dezen.
“When the warfare in the early 1940s, the construction of the war -time steam, many furniture manufacturers received military contracts to start production of items such as weapons, gear and aviation components,” they continued.
“With the new manufacturing capabilities and activist skills received after the war, furniture production and design were heavy affected, especially with materials such as plywood, fiberglass and aluminum.”
The most clear reference to this dynamic is the seat reading chair of the pilot of the night, it is a direct reference to this. An eames prototype for a mild, molded-fliewood seat,
In this, a wall divider resembles a gun -like hull and a reading lamp to a gun.
“While the piece calls the characters for adventure/travel in war, this piece investigates an unhealthy and unrealistic romanticization of war as a heroic struggle,” Knight said.
“I look at the characters/users sitting on the chair, imagining the world and traveling in aircraft, while in fact they will face the horrors of the World War 2.”
All the pieces in the exhibition are functional, the night and a barrier fixed by the galllerist Stephen Marcos, so that “” “” “Relaxation and functionality in work helps them to get out of any ‘gallery setting only’.
The exhibition includes a hanging lamp with a rice paper shade made in the shape of a wing in other pieces and the chair of an aluminum-end-leather includes in the shape of a liferaft.
Also, a chair in the shape of a stretcher, a shade that represents different stages of the real existence of Beyu of a plane crash in Crimea and is a bleeding maple table that shows the tableware adorned with symbols representing the characters and their “rebirth” after the war.
Knight said that the goal of focusing on fighter aircraft is that the way war design can eventually be romantic despite its violent work.
“By romantic the object, we only look at it for its heroic tale, similarly an Emes Splint, 200,000 is designed to hugely shock the organs of young American soldiers, which now hang between collectors’ houses,” Night said.
Showcase demonstrated Knight’s belief that the design could be an important function of design due to “intimate relationship towards humanity” to tell a story.
“World War I have been emphasized by checking the relationship between two and mid -century design that always shows the world through method, material and form,” Knight said.
“As history continues to repeat itself, I am surprised and curious to see how modern furniture will reflect this moment and designers will tell those stories.”
Another collectional design shows an exhibition from telling a story that shows a story Nifmi Marcus-Bello that investigates the exploitation of natural resources And one Kim Mubungila’s collection,
Photography is done by Matthew Gordon.
