TAB Event - "Dutch Design" Exhibition

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At Sakura City Museum of Art
Media: Furniture, Product, Art Talk

A chest made simply by bundling up discarded drawers with a belt. A table that looks like a child's clay work. Works by leading Dutch designers prove themselves significantly different from our expectations of what design is. On the other hand, ergonomic chairs and simple home appliances with superb functionality are produced by the country. The roots of such characteristics of Dutch design can be traced to the rational character of the people nurtured over the course of developing and protecting the nation's land, 1/4 of which is below sea level, as well as in the avant-garde visions of Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, who applied modern formative theory to articles for daily use, such as furniture.

This exhibition introduces Dutch designs for furniture, posters and home appliances produced from the 1920s through to the present, in line with four key words: "wit", "innovative colors and forms", "rationalism and functionalism" and "lucidity". This is a great opportunity for the viewer to get acquainted with the intellectual yet playful design sensibility unique to the nation.

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[Image: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld "Armchair 'A Chair in Red and Blue'" 1918 (produced in ca. 1935) Utsunomiya Museum of Art collection]

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