until Sunday November 30 2014

Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary
T : +43 (1) 712 80 00
Stubenring 5
1010 Wien
Austria

Back in 5 min by Paris-based designer Robert Stadler plays on the easy transformability of the Biedermeier interior by means of light pieces of furniture, which—depending on the situation at hand—can be grouped into functional islands to permit uses such as eating, reading or music-making in one and the same room.

In doing so, Stadler reinterprets the simple furniture typologies of traditional rustic rooms—as suggested by this former rural summer villa—to create object groups consisting of “working furniture” such as stools and benches that contrast with this villa’s fundamentally bourgeois and opulent leisure idyll. This includes using surfaces and patterns in keeping with the Biedermeier-era material and decorative approach. In the process, deconstructive mechanisms give rise to a type of in-between phenomenon—as if the space had just reconfigured itself.