Yurt Market 800

Max Guderian & Clemens Lauer
Yurt Market 800
chair
2014

polypropylene, resin
75 x 45 x 30 cm
edition of 5


Not only because it has been sold millions of times, but probably also due to its global low price and its banal design, the so-called Monobloc has, in the eyes of many designers and artists, long become a type of semi-finished material whose disdained ordinariness can, through purposeful manipulation and processing, be transformed into an attention-grabbing work. This is, however, only successful if the intervention respects the dominating characteristics of this mass product: that is, when the changes are made in such a way that the basic model can still be identified, while being “newly” defined through a material, configurative or proportional modification, thus provoking a noticeable reflection of this icon of ordinariness. This is exactly the case with the Yurt Market 800, thanks to only one, but absolutely decisive, “structural” measure: a drastic shortening of the seat. Sitting down there, you will hardly feel like getting comfortable, but maybe it will get you thinking.



Yurt Market 800

Yurt Market 800

Yurt Market 800