Gregor Eichinger
dal 9/11/2009 al 9/1/2009
Segnalato da
9/11/2009
Gregor Eichinger
MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Wien
The Shape of the Cafe' to Come. Eichinger devotes his lecture to a kind of history of the development of the Viennese coffee house. The architect and designer thus sees himself as an intermediary between awareness of history and visions of the future. The title, with its overtones of evolutionary biology, already hints at the fact that in order to survive and not just to become a trip down culinary memory lane, the coffee house must continue to evolve.
Curated bySebastian Hackenschmidt, MAK Curator Furniture and Woodworks
Curatorial assistance Karin Ferrari
Gregor Eichinger devotes his lecture to a kind of history of the development of the Viennese coffee house. The architect and designer thus sees himself as an intermediary between awareness of history and visions of the future.
The title, with its overtones of evolutionary biology, already hints at the fact that in order to survive and not just to become a trip down culinary memory lane, the coffee house must continue to evolve.
While in his talk Eichinger recalls the evolution of the Viennese coffee house, he is already sending the next generation - Dottings, Graulicht, KIM+HEEP, POLKA and Robert Rüf - off with a challenging design task: to come up with "The Shape of the Café to Come" for the MAK DESIGN SPACE.
Kindly supported by J. & L. Lobmeyr and Naber Kaffee
Lecture: Gregor Eichinger - An Abstract of an Essay on the Origin of Coffeehouses and Varieties through Artificial and Natural Selection.
Tuesday, November 10, 7 p.m.
Followed by the Exhibition Opening
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