M3 CHAIR

date: 2011
type: chair
material: oak wood
size: 1m3
design: Thomas Feichtner
producer: Neue Wiener Werksttte, Austria

For Vienna Design Week 2011, Neue Wiener Werksttte will be showing the M3 Chair developed specifically for this exhibition. This unique object will be juxtaposed with the mass-produced FX10 Lounge Chair, an earlier work by Feichtner which has since become a classic of Austrian design. While these two pieces share a geometric theme, the M3 Chair exhibits an open, wooden cantilever construction that contrasts with the closed body of the Lounge Chair. The installation highlights not only the tension between closed and open, heavy and light, surface and line, and mass-production and the single copy, but also the symbiosis between traditional workmanship and contemporary design. These pieces thus embody Neue Wiener Werkstttes ideal of hand-producing technically perfect individual products built to last generations, furniture designed to guarantee historical recognizabilitythe perfect union of hand-craftsmanship, tradition and design.