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Respect cheap design

Posted on November 2nd 2009

Renowned Catalan designer Martí Guixé makes three new additions to his ongoing series of “statement chairs”.


The Monoblock plastic chair is actually a good design – cheap, democratic, technically logical, useful and resistent – but with a very bad reputation, according to renowned Catalan designer Martí Guixé. One of three new additions to his ongoing series of “statement chairs”, the trio of chairs launched at Chairs and Fireworks at the Berlin contemporary design gallery Helmrinderknecht. A series of fireworks customised with paper shapes of flying cars and houses celebrated the domestication of space.

Martí Guixé

Born in 1964, Martí Guixé is a Catalonian designer living in Barcelona and Berlin. He graduated in interior design from Elisava in Barcelona in 1985 and studied industrial design at Scuola Politecnica di Design di Milano in 1986.

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