03.08.2009:
W.C.Franck will be exhibiting the Thonet Project on the fourth floor at Liberty throughout August, where the chairs will also be on sale.
Liberty Store
Regent Street
London W1B 5AH
Opening times: Monday–Saturday 10am–9pm, Sunday 12pm–6pm
09.03.2009:
The display of six No.14 bentwoods at the Boutique Printemps Design au Centre Pompidou, was due to end 16.03.2009 but has had it’s run extended by six weeks. The show will now end 27.04.2009.
All chairs in the exhibition are for sale at €695 each or €3600 for the whole collection (six chairs). Contact staff at the Boutique Printemps Design au Centre Pompidou for more details. Please note that any chairs sold will need to remain in the exhibition until it ends on 27 April and would be ready for collection from 29 April.
09.02.2009:
From 11 February to 16 March 2009 the six designers of W.C.Franck will be exhibiting their explorations of replacement seat solutions to six No.14 bentwood chairs in the year that marks the 150th anniversary of Thonet’s original design.
Steve Clutton
Jess Corteen
Amos Field Reid
Markus Kayser
Rentaro Nishimura
William Warren
11.02–16.03.2009:
Boutique Printemps
Design au Centre Pompidou
Centre
Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris
telephone +33 (0)144 781 578
Opening hours:
every day from 11.00am–10.00pm except Tuesdays
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17.09.2008:
What happens when six designers: Steven Clutton, Jess Corteen, Amos Field Reid, Markus Kayser, Rentaro Nishimura and William Warren respond in six different ways to six old Thonet bentwood chairs in need of replacement seats?
The chairs in this project include a No.14 with arms and five examples of the rarer No.20 (c. 1870/90), a variant of the ubiquitous No.14 ‘cafe´chair’ belonging to the family of Thonet bentwoods of which there are thought to be several hundred million in existence.
But how many are out of service simply because their seats are missing?
A group of up and coming designers who have risen to the challenge of filling the void of these iconic object’s slender frames; a project designed to inspire and assist people in getting these proto-modern masterpieces out of their attics or basements and back into use.
18–21.09.2008:
Designers Block
No.1 The Piazza
Covent Garden
London WC2E 8AA
www.designersblock.org.uk