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Od empiru do art déco. Taborety, krzesła, fotele
| From the empire style to art déco - Stools, chairs, armchairs |
| Opening of the exhibition on September 9 2009 at 17.00, The Hipolit House (temporary exhibitions gallery), 3 St. Mary’s Square. Welcome to the Hipolit House on the next exhibition from the series From front to kitchen. On the exhibition we present stools, chairs and armchairs selected from the collection of our museum. Collected furniture let us see transformation of the art styles in carpentry from the beginning of the 19th century to the 20's of the 20th century. The exhibition begins with chairs and armchairs made according to the empire style at the beginning of the 19th century and furniture related to this art style. These are equipment with simple, balanced form, with shape referring to the antiques, very often ornamented with bronze elements showing lions, sphinx, herms, acanthus leaves, etc. They refers to French carpentry or those times indigenous empire style – Duchy of Warsaw style. Significant group are Biedermeier style furniture. We present Viennese type of the furniture with fanciful backs in shape of a fan or trefoil and simple seat. There are also chairs from the German kind of Biedermeier style, in Poland called “hamburka”. Together with these we present an arm-chair from the breakthrough of the 19th and 20th century from the “second Biedermeier” art style. Very contrasting with composed Biedermeier style furniture is one made in style of Louis-Philippe I– the furniture with soft lines, bent legs, with medallion back and upholstered seat. Very popular in the second half of the 19th century used to be upholstered style furniture. On the exhibition we present an arm-chair from the kitchen kit. Together with arm-chairs from the Louis-Philippe I style there are chairs from the 3rd quarter of the 19th century related by its shape and ornamentation to the times of Louis XV of France – furniture with subtle shapes, small sizes and rococo ornamentation In the second half of the 19th century carpentry was fulfilled with tools which shapes and decorations based of previous epochs. Designers patterned on early medieval models. The example is an arm-chair of the faldstool kind which belonged to Stanisław Wyspiański. However the most inspiring used to be various kinds of furniture from the baroque epoch. On the exhibition we can find a join-stool type stool, a stool with ornamented back, chair patterned on Netherlands furniture and a poltrone type chair with richly ornamented back. Very contrasting with neo-style ones are chairs with flexible floral secession style including a living room arm-chair made by Joseph and Jacob Kohn workshop. Among the chairs from the 19th century couldn’t forget about furniture from the Thonet factory. It is a famous and popular model of a chair no 14. Polish carpentry from the beginning of the 20th century is shown by work of artist related to Polish Applied Art Society – an armchair from the kit of furniture made for Wiktor Suski to his living room, designed by Ludwik Wojtyczka, and a kitchen chair made by Henryk Uziembła. At the end of the collection there is an armchair from the Polish kind of the art deco style from the bedroom furniture kit made by Nowakowski factory in Poznan. Custodian: Agata Wójcik Art design: Agata Wójcik, Wojciech Jodłowski Exhibition available from September 10 to October 25, 2009 Opening hours: Wednesday - Sunday 10.00-17.30 Tickets: regular 4 PLN half-price 3 PLN family ticket 8 PLN |
