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2012
Kunstverein, since 1817.
Klosterwall 23
20095 Hamburg

The "Arnold on Acid", a special edition of the Arnold Circus stool with color gradients for 'Kunstverein', was originally developed for the Arnold Circus. A small park built on rubble in the Boundary Estate, which was one of the earliest urban planning projects to tackle poverty in the eastern slums of London. The Arnold Circus stool serves as the sites official seating for all events taking place. Due to its shape it is stackable, multi-functional and suitable for indoor and outdoor use. It is no coincidence that "Arnold Circus stool" is a piece of furniture with a social dimension. Gamper often uses existing material, recycled, processed and transformed what once was actually waste. With his project "100 Chairs in 100Days" he made use of discarded or disused chairs and created new seating, dissembling and adding different elements to form a chair again. A plastic garden chair may well meet one of it’s designer colleagues. He responds to the idea of an ideal design by advocating responsibility and respective capabilities and requirements. Accordingly, it’s benches and chairs should not be seen as isolated objects, but rather as places that highlight the fact of being present in a space, and the social implications of that. Taken from the press release.

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