![]() ![]() ![]() to more practical designs: Take the red cup from Bohemian cut glass as an example. The reductive and planar form of Jam Seat predates similar conceptual designs such as Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld’s Red and Blue Chair, created in 1917 and Shiro Kuramata’s Glass chair from 1976. Check out the highlights of Viennese design and practical information. ![]() The design is distilled into four flat planes of cut brass sheet that are pieced together like an angular puzzle. The show, comprising 700 objects, was a sensation for the Viennese art world. Another of the movement’s foremost artists was Koloman Moser, whose works spanned graphic works to ceramics, blown glass and silverware. Its most-used form was the square and its best-known design motifs were the grid and checkerboard. Moser arranged the sixth exhibition, which was shown from January through February 1900 and was dedicated to Japanese art. Stylistically, the Vienna Secession period centres symmetry and repetition. Inspired by the more geometric forms of the late Vienna Secession movement, the forward thinking chair design dismisses traditionalist style in favor of a modern, streamline look, rendered in a single material. Alongside Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser also increasingly appeared as a designer. Lionel Jadot’s Jam Seat, is adapted from a design prototype created sometime between 1905 – 1910 by Jadot’s great-grandfather, the head of the legendary Vanhamme family of furniture makers. Key to his work process is a strong belief in craftsmanship and integrity in terms of behavior and approach." With the vision and confidence to experiment and evolve, Jadot has made a practice of skirting tradition by mixing genres, inspirations, and materials to achieve his iconoclastic vision. While not easily categorized by a singular style, Jadot’s work could most easily be recognized by his affinity for repurposed materials and his deft eye at creating harmony and balance out of the collision of disparate elements. "As a sixth-generation member of the famous Vanhamme family of furniture makers, in the world of design, Lionel Jadot is equal parts self-taught and “to the manner born”. ![]()
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