The future of the iconic 100 Chairs in 100 Days collection has been secured after it was bought by an international museum.
Created in London in 2007, 100 Chairs in 100 Days emerged from a gesture that was as simple as it was radical: collecting discarded chairs from homes, streets and second-hand markets, and transforming them over the course of one hundred consecutive days. Each day, Martino Gamper worked on a different chair through processes of cutting, joining, grafting, and recombining, creating 100 unique objects that challenge conventional design categories and the notion of originality.
The collection has spent almost 20 years in the archive of the Nilufar gallery in Milan, but will now become part of the collection of a major institution, whose name will be announced in the coming months.
Nina Yashar, Nilufar founder bought the landmark of contemporary design in 2009 to champion its presentation at Triennale Milano.
Earlier this week, a selection of the chairs went on show at the Nilufar warehouse – one of the final opportunities to experience the project before its transfer – where Gamper carried out a restoration intervention on the chairs, continuing a practice that had accompanied the public life of the work for years and that continued to sustain its transformative potential.
