Postmodern Chroma Key Coffee Table by Minale-Maeda for Droog Netherlands

Description

Striped navy/gray upholstery over wood. Designed by Minale-Maeda. This is a one of a kind prototype made for the Chroma … more Striped navy/gray upholstery over wood. Designed by Minale-Maeda. This is a one of a kind prototype made for the Chroma Key show at Droog Design Gallery in 2008.

Table measures 27" deep x 27.5" wide x 14" high and has a seat height of 16.75"

Provenance: Droog, Las Vegas | Converso Modern, Chicago

From the Droog website:

"Chroma Key is a set of furniture pieces upholstered in blue fabric. The color refers to the fabric used for the blue-box effect in photography and cinematography, allowing a subject to be placed into any background. The fabric is a rendition of a classic upholstery pattern, creating the tone of blue through a moiré effect of white and blue stripes.

Designers Minale-Maeda took the influence of visual culture on the design of objects as a starting point. Particularly image editing, packaging and the reproduction of objects in the media intrigued them.The blue colour and boxy shapes, the protruding features and the moiré effect: the generic shapes of Chroma Key, reclusive of their content, readily manipulated and noisy, reveal the side-effects of the visual, turning familiar objects into obscure blue boxes.

Minale-Maeda

Japanese born Kuniko Maeda and Italian born / German brought-up Mario Minale met at the Design Academy Eindhoven, after previously studying at Musashino Art University in Tokyo and in Germany respectively. They formed a design studio in 2005 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands." less