Respect cheap design

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

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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.

Watch the Talk with Martí Guixé