designed by Marti Guixé in 2009 for Helmrinderknecht contemporary design, Germany, monobloc plastic chair from Turkey, acrylic painting, inscribed with marker: RESPECT CHEAP FURNITURE 17/50 Marti Guixé, height 89 cm, width 40 cm, depth 41 cm. (DR)

No. 17 from the series of 50 differently finished chairs plus five artist’s proofs.

From the series of the “Statement Chairs”, in which Guixé dealt with the phenomenon of the cheap industrial product, recycling (“27 kg of Copper”), and the “label” of designer chairs (“Centaurus”). The classic monobloc plastic chair has many qualities of good design: it is inexpensive, democratic, technically plausible, functional, and robust; however, it suffers from a bad reputation. After his work “Stop Discrimination of Cheap Furniture” (2004), Guixé went one step further in his defence of all-purpose furniture, calling for ”Respect Cheap Furniture”.

Examples from this series are preserved in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Exhibited: Useless?, Museo do Design e da Moda, Lisbon 2011 - Böse Dinge. Positionen des Un-/Geschmacks, Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur 2011 - World Festival of Black Arts & Culture, Dakar, Senegal, 2011.