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· Forty of Martin Szekely's elegant and enigmatic designs are documented in this catalog for an exhibition at the musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design (MADD - Bordeaux) from 26 April to 7 October 2018

· All the furniture has been created between 1996 and 2018, offering an up-to-date perspective on his career

French designer Martin Szekely's enigmatic furniture and objects are the result of formal structural challenges, observation, and analysis. Experimenting with both new and traditional materials, he approaches each project as a new inquiry into the essence of the built world. The designer's furniture and objects are embodiments of his meditations on the nature of balance, and are based on data concerning mass, gravity and networks of forces, most often invisible to the naked eye.

For Szekely, building is the very essence of the designer's profession: "I see my practice from the builder's perspective, considering the use that will be made of my construction; this immediately involves the user, his body and his environment."

What is built - which is the designer's domain unlike the artist for whom ideas suffice - calls on the history of structures and the technologies that underlie them. This catalog, for a show of forty pieces at the musee des Arts décoratifs et du Design, highlights Szekely's elegant mix of craftsmanship and high tech, raw materiality and high culture.

Text in English and French.

Published to accompany the exhibition at the MADD, Bordeaux, France, 26 April-7 October 2018.

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About the Author

Constance Rubini is the director of the Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design of Bordeaux. An art historian, she was notably responsible for the programming of the Musée des Arts décoratifs of Paris where she curated the exhibitions Nobody's perfect by Gaetano Pesce (2002-2003), Inga Sempé (2003) and Dessiner le design (2009-2010). She has also been president of the Centre national des arts plastiques since 2016. Cecil Balmond is a designer, artist and writer. The founder in 2000 of the design and research group AGU (Advanced Geometry Unit), he holds the Paul Philippe Cret chair at PennDesign as professor of architecture. In 2010, he created Balmond Studio, a consulting firm active in the fields of art, architecture and design.

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  • PublisherEditions Norma
  • Publication date2018
  • ISBN 10 2376660149
  • ISBN 13 9782376660149
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages256

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Couverture souple. Condition: Comme neuf. Edition originale. Paris 2018. 1 Volume/1. -- Comme Neuf -- Broché cousu . Couverture sous jaquette illustrée et étui. Format in-4°( 25 x 20 cm )( 824 gr ). ------ 237 pages . *********************** Présentation éditeur : "" Du 26 avril au 16 septembre 2018, Martin Szekely a exposé au musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design (MADD) de Bordeaux un ensemble exceptionnel d une quarantaine de pièces, conçues entre 1996 et 2018, autour du thème de la construction. Ces meubles et objets semblent réinventer leur composition même : ils sont tous le résultat d un défi structurel. Expérimentant tous les matériaux, traditionnels ou nouveaux, Martin Szekely aborde chaque projet comme une nouvelle remise en question. Les meubles et les objets du designer sont le résultat d un travail prospectif sur l équilibre à partir de données de masse, de pesanteur et de réseaux de forces, le plus souvent invisibles à l il nu. Pour Szekely, construire relève de l essence même du métier du designer : « J envisage ma pratique sous l angle du constructeur et de l usage qui sera fait de ma construction ; ce qui implique d emblée l usager, son corps et son environnement. Qui implique l usager, appelle l histoire des usages. Qui construit ce qui est le propre du designer contrairement à l artiste qui peut se suffire des idées appelle l histoire des structures et des technologies qui les sous-tendent. » Sa réflexion est corrélée à une recherche de simplification pour approcher, avec exigence, l état limite des matériaux. Dans ce processus de réduction, voire d effacement, le designer tend vers un dispositif structurel a minima. Les pièces paraissent simples, évidentes et possèdent une dimension universelle. "" ************************** ref 529. Seller Inventory # y852564

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