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Fin de siècle

Title
Fin de siècle / editors: Karen Marta, Simon Castets.
Publication
New York : Swiss Institute : Karma, [2018]

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Additional Authors
  • Marta, Karen
  • Castets, Simon
  • Angelidakis, Andreas, 1968-
  • Bava, Alessandro
  • Ionesco, Eugène
  • Swiss Institute (New York, N.Y.), publisher, host institution
Description
184 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
In Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play The Chairs, chairs stand in for characters at the brink of the world's end. Artist and curator Andreas Angelidakis pays homage to Ionesco at Swiss Institute with Fin de Siècle, a fantastical and idiosyncratic narrative of design after modernism. Inspired by Ionesco's play, Angelidakis reanimates a number of important chairs from design history and popular culture, casting them in dramatic roles. As a document of Swiss Institute's inaugural Architecture and Design show, this volume includes a conversation on late-modernist design between Angelidakis and Beatrice Galilee, Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at the Met; a dialogue on AirBnB's approach to space with Alessandro Bava, Aaron Taylor Harvey, Sean Monahan and Rachael Yu; an essay and specially created artist's book by Angelidakis; and a glossary of the chairs selected for the exhibition.
Series Statement
The SI series
Uniform Title
  • Fin de siècle (Swiss Institute, New York, N.Y.)
  • SI series (Swiss Institute (New York, N.Y.))
Subjects
Note
  • "Architecture and design series. Inaugural edition."
  • Includes texts by Andreas Angelidakis and a conversation between Alessandro Bava and three others.
  • "Published for the exhibition 'Fin de siècle' at Swiss Institute, New York, September 17-November 23, 2014"--Colophon.
Call Number
JQD 18-459
ISBN
  • 0999505904
  • 9780999505908
OCLC
1031163476
Title
Fin de siècle / editors: Karen Marta, Simon Castets.
Publisher
New York : Swiss Institute : Karma, [2018]
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The SI series
SI series (Swiss Institute (New York, N.Y.))
Added Author
Marta, Karen, editor.
Castets, Simon, editor.
Angelidakis, Andreas, 1968- Fin de siècle.
Bava, Alessandro, contributor.
Ionesco, Eugène. Chaises.
Swiss Institute (New York, N.Y.), publisher, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQD 18-459
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