The Romain Morandi gallery is pleased to organize the first exhibition in France of the works of Beat Frank (b. 1949), a major figure in Swiss design since the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n
On this occasion, she presents a unique set of furniture made to order for the convent of La Tourette, a modernist masterpiece by Le Corbusier.<\/p>\n
Created at the invitation of the French Ministry of Culture in 1994, the tables and chairs by Beat Frank intended for the refectory of the convent question the specificities of the building, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site.<\/p>\n
It took several site visits for Beat Frank to immerse himself in the place and thus design furniture that perfectly echoed the architecture. Forms reduced to their simplest expression, brutalist textures and verticality characterize the production of someone who considers the object as a \u201cutilitarian sculpture\u201d.<\/p>\n
To understand this proposition, the exhibition returns to the furniture that the designer developed within the Atelier Vorsprung which he founded with Andreas Lehmann in 1984 (their collaboration lasted until 1990). Beat Frank then designs a set of tables, chairs, bookcases, consoles, in wood or metal, whose elements fit naturally into each other.<\/p>\n
His \u201cfour-part armchair\u201d reflects this research: how to design a seat from four identical elements? An object that folds, can be transported and becomes a voluminous and comfortable body? This saw the light of day after more than a year of study. The \u201cLesemobile\u201d, a true nomadic workstation, will require more than four years of research. \u201cFrom paper to space\u201d, Beat Frank pays close attention to the quality of manufacturing, of which he supervises all stages. In order to maintain control of his production, his pieces are published in very small series in the immediate vicinity of the city of Bern where he resides.<\/p>\n
Beat Frank’s works are now in the collections of the Vitra Design Museum and the Pinakothek in Munich in Germany, the Landesmuseum and the Design Museum in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":""Beat Frank, Furniture for the convent of La Tourette & essential works (1984-2016)" | Galerie Romain Morandi","_seopress_titles_desc":"The Romain Morandi gallery is pleased to organize the first exhibition in France of the works of Beat Frank (b. 1949), a major figure in Swiss design since the mid-1980s.\r\n\r\nOn this occasion, she presents a unique set of furniture made to order for the convent of La Tourette, a modernist masterpiece by Le Corbusier.\r\n\r\nCreated at the invitation of the French Ministry of Culture in 1994, the tables and chairs by Beat Frank intended for the refectory of the convent question the specificities of the building, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site.\r\n\r\nIt took several site visits for Beat Frank to immerse himself in the place and thus design furniture that perfectly echoed the architecture. Forms reduced to their simplest expression, brutalist textures and verticality characterize the production of someone who considers the object as a \u201cutilitarian sculpture\u201d.\r\n\r\nTo understand this proposition, the exhibition returns to the furniture that the designer developed within the Atelier Vorsprung which he founded with Andreas Lehmann in 1984 (their collaboration lasted until 1990). Beat Frank then designs a set of tables, chairs, bookcases, consoles, in wood or metal, whose elements fit naturally into each other.\r\n\r\nHis \u201cfour-part armchair\u201d reflects this research: how to design a seat from four identical elements? An object that folds, can be transported and becomes a voluminous and comfortable body? This saw the light of day after more than a year of study. The \u201cLesemobile\u201d, a true nomadic workstation, will require more than four years of research. \u201cFrom paper to space\u201d, Beat Frank pays close attention to the quality of manufacturing, of which he supervises all stages. In order to maintain control of his production, his pieces are published in very small series in the immediate vicinity of the city of Bern where he resides.\r\n\r\nBeat Frank's works are now in the collections of the Vitra Design Museum and the Pinakothek in Munich in Germany, the Landesmuseum and the Design Museum in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, and the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain in France.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expositions-en","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romainmorandi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romainmorandi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romainmorandi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romainmorandi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romainmorandi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/romainmorandi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9744,"href":"https:\/\/romainmorandi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions\/9744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romainmorandi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romainmorandi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romainmorandi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romainmorandi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}