Jerszy Seymour

Jerszy Seymour (b. 1968, Berlin) is an experimental and commercial designer who rethinks traditional categories of everyday life. He has designed for Magis, Vitra, Kreo, Moulinex, SFR and IDEE. His work has been exhibited in the Design Museum, London; the Vitra Design Museum, Basel and Berlin; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Gallery Kreo, Paris. It is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Fonds national de art contemporain, France, among others. In 2007 Jerszy’s “Living Systems” was included in the “My Home” exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum and in 2008 he realised his installation “First Supper” at the Mak, Vienna.

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Workshop Chair
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2009

Wood and polycapralactone wax

The Workshop Chair is a product of a conceptual series entitled "Amateur" by Seymour which includes other works such as "First Supper" for the MAK Vienna.

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Some Notes to Myself…A General Theory of Design
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2011

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Powerpoint

Known for designing life’s situations, The Dirty Art Department, a Coalition of Amateurs and a consumable First Supper at the MAK, Vienna, Jerszy Seymour blasts ASAP and architecture off into the expanded spatial environment with sound, hillbilly rockets, and texts which project into the future, only to return to us as historical finds.

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