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Furniture conceived by artists
The fruitful union between art and design dates from the early 20th century with the Bauhaus, De Stijl and Constructivism.
In the 1990s, however, more than a few artists started to show renewed interest in furnishings and the like. Some like Tobias Rehberger and Andrea Zittel made it the focus of their artistic research; others went even further, designing real furniture that was manufactured and marketed. Liam Gillick is one, an eclectic British artist whose activities range from paintings and graphic art to music scores and screenplays he has created two coloured minimalist-style pieces: a long narrow table bench and a shelf system. Gillick – along with Gerhard Merz, Jean-Marc Bustamante (who has designed a bolted table and ink-jet wallpaper), Joseph Beuys and Donald Judd – is just one of the artists “hired” by Edition Schellmann, a German gallery founded by Jorg Schellmann in Berlin in 1969 that opened a design studio (Edition Schellmann Furniture) in Munich and an outpost devoted to showing artist-designed furnishings.Elena Sommariva
