Cow chair (unicum)

Cow chair (unicum)

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If a leather shoe nose can keep its shape, then surely it must work with other products too, thought designer Niels van Eijk. That idea brought him to design the Cow Chair, as his graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Instead of using tanned leather he used a raw, untreated cow hide. The wet hide is stretched around a mould with counter moulds to create the seat. No frame, epoxy or preservative is used; only hide, water, and tension. The hide takes several days to dry – and the result is this chair. [text 2023]

This object is now not on display in the museum

Title

Cow chair (unicum)

Artist

Dating

1997

Material and technique

ruwe koeienhuid

Object number

28635

Object type

stoel

Acquisition

aankoop met steun van de Mondriaan Stichting 2000

Dimensions

hoogte 76.5 cm

breedte 43.5 cm

diepte 44.5 cm

Inscriptions and markings

  • merk achterzijde (gebrandmerkt): NVE

Remarks

Afstudeerproject Design Academie Eindhoven.

Documentation

  • A human touch : every product tells a story, ed. Renny Ramakers, (Amsterdam, 2006), verg. pp. 24-25, met afb. in kleur

  • Droog & Dutch Design : from product to fashion : the collection of the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, [voorw. Sjarel Ex]. [samenst. Ida van Zijl, José Teunissen], (Utrecht, 2000), p. 50, afb. in kleur

  • Home made Holland : how craft and design mix, (London, 2002), p. 33, met afb. in kleur

Exhibitions

  • Stoel neemt stelling, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2023 - 2024

  • Vroeg Droog, Erasmushuis, Jakarta, 2018 - 2019

  • Vroeg Droog, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2017

Persistent url

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.4678200B-6A02-458B-ACA1-871084BCB626

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