Israel 2015/2016, Metallrahmen, Geflecht aus Gummibändern, Schaumstoff, Leder, Höhe 78 cm, Länge 210 cm, Breite 100 cm. (DRAX)

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The Recipients: Ministry of Culture and Sport Awards in Art and Design 2015, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art 2016.

“The sofa’s symmetric design can be used by one or two people, its bath shape suggesting that reclining posture would be the best way to use it. I always wanted to design a sofa, the question that kept troubling me was –why does it always looked the same? I have noticed that people most of the time put their sofa in front of their TV. So I thought it would be interesting to learn about the relationship between these 2 objects. I have made a research about the evolution of the Sofa Vs the development of TV screens since the beginning of the 20th century I have realized that the roll of the TV in our life is changing and we no longer consume our entertainment content in a social manner –families sitting in front of the TV. Instead, we have our own screens. and we use it alone. So I thought the TV is about to disappear, it will extinct. And the sofa will be used in different ways, we will use it alone, a place to relax, a place to Introspection (maybe a bit like in the days before the TV). The best place for introspection is the bath, so this is a combination between a sofa and a bathtub. No doubt this is a speculation, and by that maybe a critic point of view of our society and were we heading. And because of that I have chosen the black leather, and to associated the shape with whale hunting ships / barrels /animal skeleton /Coffin... I have chosen the name Cradle to Cradle as a paraphrase to the well-known expression referring to the way we design stuff. So it gets a new meaning and maybe going back to the original meaning of the expression.” (Neil Nenner)

“Neil Nenner offers a fresh look at our taken-for-granted relationships with our domestic furniture. His design of the couch on view here is based on his research into the development of the couch as influenced by changes in viewing habits related to developments in TV technology. He reached the conclusion that as TV screens have grown larger so has the couch increased in size and gotten softer, turning more similar to a bed. The proliferation of personal screens has resulted in another important change in the way we communicate with our environment, and has resulted in each family member sitting in the living room with their own screen. Consequently, Nenner has developed a model of a personal couch, whose form and usage recall a bathtub. It is a concrete design proposal that holds a critical mirror to all these changes.” (Tali Ben Nun, Herzliya Museum)