Champagne Chair Collection

Design Within Reach

22/06/05. (Sala 232)

A presentation of the 100 chairs that reached the finals in the 2005 Champagne Chair Collection contest organized by Design Within Reach – USA.

We have all done it at some point.

On some long festive table we have all ended up playing with the lid, the wire cage or the foil of the champagne cork (or cava cork) improvising little games. One of the most popular is trying to build a little chair using these elements and maybe imagining for a brief moment that we are famous designers.

This ingenious idea has been made good use of by our californian collegues at Design Within Reach (www.dwr.com) to organize a contest for its clients. Vinçon formed part of the jury in the last edition and that encouraged us to bring the 100 pieces that reached the finals to Barcelona.

It isn’t a coincident that La Sala Vinçon exhibition is taking part on the days running up to Saint John’s day. It’s probably at Christmas when the most material (corks, wire cages, etc,) is available to let our talents and imagination run free and be put into practice.

Cava and design are two elements that are very much related to our culture. Having said this it’s almost unavoidable not to arrange our own contest, and in which case will shortly announce the fundamentals at vincon.com