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1 > 10 October is Vienna Design Week. One exhibition that has caught our eye is artist/designer Helmut Palla’s ‘You take a seat, I take a picture’.

Held at Vienna Academy of Fine Arts Atelierhaus, the show will be focused on his intriguing, and often amusing, reworkings of chairs. It will investigate ‘sitting limits, multi-dimensional sitting, functional sitting, around-the-corner sitting, the bond between seat and seat-taker’. And if you’re still sitting comfortably, check out Sally Jeffery’s piece about chairs for children here.

Top: ‘Chairnobyl’

Below: ‘Archi’

Above: ‘Seatyr Chairchill MutAnt’

Below: ‘Red Seed’

Above: ‘Discorded Rocker’

Below: ‘Siam Twins’

Above: ‘Chair Descending a Staircase’

1 > 10 October 2010
Helmut Palla: You Take a Seat, I Take a Picture
Atelierhaus of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (former Semperdepot)
A-1060 Vienna, Lehargasse 8
Austria
www.akademiegalerie.at

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