Katrin Sonnleitner

Immöbel (Immobile)
chest of drawers
2010

birch multiplex, brass hinge

immöbel low
50 x 35 x 22 cm
edition of 10

immöbel high
40 x 25 x 62 cm
edition of 10

As a descendant of the chest, the chest of drawers stems from an originally mobile piece of storing furniture. The fact that it could be opened and accessed from the front made it quite
convenient. Backed up against the wall — deprived of their mobility — they have since been populating hallways and bedrooms. Swiftly, all sorts of small lamps and vases, and even doilies, found their place on them and degraded the piece of furniture to a presentation pedestal for the props of our life. The Immobile rebels against such comfortable
superficiality and gives up its familiar form in favor of a new order. It pushes its original function of providing mobile storage space back to the forefront and challenges users to involve themselves anew with their furniture.