'Modern by Design' at the High MOA

4 June - 21 August 2011

Atlanta

The High Museum of Art has commissioned two new major works by Dutch designer Joris Laarman and the Japanese design collective nendo which are presented to the public for the first time in the exhibition “Modern by Design,” on view from June 4 through August 21, 2011.

Along with these new commissions, the exhibition’s installations also feature 23 works from the High’s growing collection of contemporary design that showcase late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century design.

nendo's “Visible Structures” is an installation of 12 pieces of furniture―, stools, chairs, and tables ―all made of form core or cardboard reinforced with a special industrial-strength graphite (carbon) tape. The graphite tape will be applied to the form core in patterns inspired by the early abstract paintings of the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl movement.

The High previously acquired three “Cabbage Chairs,” (2010) by nendo for its collection; they will also be on view in “Modern by Design.” Nendo describes its design, stating, “The primitive design of the chair responds gently to fabrication and distribution costs and environmental concerns, the kinds of issues that face our 21st-century selves.”

nendo Design Available at the DeTnk Design Shop

Antler	Bambi	Island Table	Ribbon
Tuta	Yuki	Thin Black Table	Sekitei