a chair, on a sunny friday afternoon. it was intended to be a steel chair version of a little koala and it's mama. 🖇 koala hug, "a chair" series, 2023. #CHAIR #FURNITUREDESIGN #STEELCHAIR

Wrapped Armchair by Christo and Jean-Claude, 1964 #ChairOnly

BOTH SOLD - Handmade Wood & Hide Chairs Sold separately Available online ———— #vogueliving #interiordesign #vintagefurniture #elledecor #livingroomdecor #guidofaleschini #spaceage #mariobellini #archdigest #vintagehomedecor #pierrepaulin #massimovignelli #gaeaulenti #70sdesign #jeanprouve #harrybertoia #percivallafer #desede #miesvanderrohe #vicomagistretti #midcenturyfurniture #marcelbreuer #pierrejeanneret #michelducaroy #vintageinterior #midcentury #luigimassoni #giancarlopiretti #mariapergay #arnenorell

A similar homology applies to the term “terrorism.” During the period of Jewish struggle against the British military in Palestine, “terrorist” had a positive connotation. In the late 1940s, American newspapers ran an advertisement with the headline, “Letter to the Terrorists of Palestine,” wherein the Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht wrote, “My Brave Friends. You may not believe what I write you, for there is a lot of fertilizer in the air at the moment. The Jews of America are for you.” #israel #palestine #hamás

‘Loving Chair’ by Shimpachro Ishigami, 1988 #ChairOnly

‘Hole in One Chair’ by Frank Gehry, 1988 #ChairOnly

Have you ever heard of radiation breeding? What is the future of food production? What are the consequences of using radioactivity to mutate plant, fruit, and vegetable species? Plant mutation breeding, also called variation breeding, is a method that uses physical radiation or chemical means to induce spontaneous genetic variation in plants to develop new crop varieties. At the end of World War II, atomic gardening began as a campaign to promote the peaceful use of fission energy. Almost 70 years later, in Japan, the Institute of Radiation Breeding boasts the trademark pie-shape of Gamma Gardens and stretches across over 300 feet. To contain spill-off radiation, a 25-foot tall wall surrounds the complex. The lab is currently breeding for fruit color and fungus resistance. But ionizing radiation damages the genetic material in reproductive cells and results in mutations that are transmitted from generation to generation, creating postnatural beings that need to be understood from new post-darwinist perspectives. This and many more complex situations will be discussed during the “New Ecologies: De-centralizing the human through contemporary art” seminar, starting October 17th. All info on our website www.instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org

What is a cloud? How are humans affecting the air, the weather, and the conditions of the skies? How can climate be designed? Who owns an artificial storm? Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation. Through the artificial creation of ice crystals, weather modification can occur. Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft and seeding them with silver iodide. The hypothesis was that the silver iodide would cause supercooled water in the storm to freeze, disrupting the inner structure of the hurricane, and this led to seeding several Atlantic hurricanes. However, it was later shown that this hypothesis was incorrect. It was determined that most hurricanes do not contain enough supercooled water for cloud seeding to be effective. Such experiments are problematic, as several changes of environmental legislation had to be made to enable these trials. From a postnatural perspective, weather conditions have turned into economic and political negotiations, unveiling the complexity of a new climatic environment in which the movements of storms, clouds, and air currents are modified according to specific interests. A geopolitical story of invisible particles that reshapes the way of understanding climatology. This and many more complex situations will be discussed during the “New Ecologies: De-centralizing the human through contemporary art” seminar, starting October 17th. All info on our website www.instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org

Formafantasma, Oltre Terra | NAM Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo NO Section 8. Wool carpet made from neglected Italian wool. @cc_tapis This carpet addresses the theme of discarded wool, as well as acting as a tactile surface on which to sit and watch the film. Produced in Italy thanks to @cc_tapis the carpet is made from the wool of 12 different sheep breeds common throughout the Italian territory: Sopravissana, Merinizzata Italiana, Gentile di Puglia, Tacola, Biellese, Bergamasca, Laticauda, Turchessa, Matesina, Comisana, Valle del Belice, Leccese. Wool from these sheep is rarely used and is difficult to dispose of. The quality of the fibres is generally considered too low for clothing industry standards, because of their thickness and consequent itchiness on the skin. The increasing standardization of materials and products and the introduction of cheaper alternatives such as cotton and synthetic fibres have reduced wool to 1% of the global textile market. Of this 1%, a large share is held by a few countries such as Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, which have historically invested in intensive Merino sheep farming, a breed whose wool has long, thin fibres which are soft to the touch. This combination of factors has led to the collapse of the infrastructure that had previously collected, washed, and distributed local wools, leaving them extremely uncompetitive to the market. The carpet is an attempt to resist a simplistic definition of quality when it comes to wool fibres and proposes one example of how this kind of wool can actually be used. The straightforward design encourages appreciation of the differences in texture, thickness, colour, and tactility of the different wools. In addition, it is a reminder of the availability of such wools, which by virtue of their origin defy the illusion of an endless supply of uniform material. Video: Formafantasma, Wool carpet made from neglected Italian wool, 2023. Produced by @cc_tapis #formafantasma #oltreterra #NAMoslo #nasjonalmuseet #design #research #wool #exhibition @nasjonalmuseet