East Chair
Ergonomically, the East Chairs accommodate two postures: attentive dining and, turned 90 degrees, relaxed lounge-seating.
The East Chairs were created for the East hotel: JMA’s conversion of the ruins of an old iron foundry into a boutique hotel and restaurant in Hamburg, Germany.
As the East Hotel was the adaptive reuse of a foundry, the artist produced components, including these chairs, that were informed by the materials, methods and forms of castings.
PROCESS + MATERIALS
The forms were hand-carved and then molded and cast in integrally colored, non-combustible, glass and Kevlar reinforced chocolate resin. The finished surface is hand-rubbed with a light abrasive. Made in Chicago.
DIMENSIONS
H 35 in. x W 21 in. x D 28 in.
H 88.9 cm x W 53.34 cm x D 71.12 cm
VARIATIONS
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DATE OF DESIGN/MANUFACTURE
2004
Hand carved, then molded and cast in integrally colored, non-combustible, glass and Kevlar reinforced chocolate resin. The integral coloring allows the piece to develop a patina, like a maple floor or exposed metals. Made in Chicago.
Ergonomically, these chairs accommodate two postures; they support upright dining and, by turning 90 degrees, after-dinner lounging. Made in Chicago.
East Hotel, Hamburg, Germany
East Hotel is the reincarnation of the bombed out ruins of an old foundry in Hamburg, Germany as a boutique hotel featuring Asian-fusion menus.
DONUTS
The hotel’s center in an indoor/outdoor public space, a donut hole, created by sculpting brick and concrete out of the muscular foundry structure and excavating 24’ of earth from the yard separating the foundry ruins and the new guest room building…
Every detail of East’s architecture, art and design conveys the spirit of the old foundry and the surreality of a westerner’s first immersion in the east.
If architecture in frozen music (danke Göthe) thn ornament is the melody. It is the underlying concept which transforms structural rhythms, spatial and material harmonics and details into a meaningful personality which can create an emotional connection…the melody of architecture is its soul, the spirit of the place.
CREDITS
Photos: Karen Lilly Mozer made the photos of the lounge she designed at Sotheby's in New York. Ms. Archer made the photo of the Oak Street Gallery in Chicago. Doug Snower made photographs of the East Hotel in Germany and Bob San Restaurant in Chicago. Rago Arts made the photos with white backgrounds.
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