Title & Author:

Möbel als Trophäe / herausgegeben von Peter Noever ; mit Beiträgen von Sebastian Hackenschmidt [and others] = Furniture as trophy / edited by Peter Noever ; with contributions by Sebastian Hackenschmidt [and others].

Publication:

Nürnberg : Verlag für Moderne Kunst ; New York : [distributor] D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, 2009.

Description:

119 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Series:

MAK Studies ; 16

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Möbel als Trophäe, Furniture as trophy, MAK, Vienna, May 27-Nov. 1, 2009.
Excessive taste / Peter Noever -- Totem and trophy : psychoanalytic preliminaries / August Ruhs -- From royal beasts to bedside ruges : contemplations on hunting big game and trophies in Africa / Barbara Plankensteiner -- Furniture as trophies : design using animals / Sebastian Hackenschmidt -- The demise of trophies : a short history of taxidermied animals in art / Petra Lange-Berndt.
Text in German and English.

Summary:

Around the middle of the nineteenth century, so called antler furniture was was wide-spread in the hunting lodges of the Alpine region. These "trophies" made from hunted animals are seen today as a highly scurrilous aberration of rustic conviviality. But in modern settings, too, animal material was presented as a trophy, as it were: the examples range from classics of modern interior decor design from the 1920s that use animal fur as upholstery to ironic antler furniture pastiches from the 1980s and the application of animal materials for furniture-like objects in contemporary art and design.--Page 4 of cover
In den Jagdzimmern des Alpenraums waren um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts sogenannte Geweihmöbel weit verbreitet. Diese aus erlegten Tieren hergestellten "Trophäen" gelten heute als skurriler Auswuchs einer rustikalen Gemütlichkeit. Aber auch im modernen Ambiente wurden Jagdtrophäen oft als Möbel präsentiert: Die Beispiele reichen von den mit Tierfellen bespannten Klassikern des modernen Wohndesigns der 1920er Jahre über die ironischen Geweihmöbelparaphrasen der 1980er Jahre bis zu der Verwendung tierischer Materialien bei den Möbelobjekten zeitgenössischer Künstler und Designer.

ISBN:

9783941185593
3941185594

Subject:

Furniture design History Exhibitions.
Furniture making History Exhibitions.
Furniture making Materials History Exhibitions.
Bones In art Exhibitions.
Hides and skins In art Exhibitions.
Animals in art Exhibitions.
Taxidermy Exhibitions.
Meubles Design Histoire Expositions.
Meubles Fabrication Histoire Expositions.
Meubles Fabrication Matériaux Histoire Expositions.
Os Dans l'art Expositions.
Cuirs et peaux Dans l'art Expositions.
Taxidermie Expositions.
Taxidermy.
Furniture making Materials.
Furniture making.
Animals in art.
Bones in art.
Furniture design.
Möbelkonst historia.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
History.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Noever, Peter, 1941-
Hackenschmidt, Sebastian.
Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst.
MAK Studies ; 16.

Furniture as trophy

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266635
Call No.: BIB 198589
Status: Available