Muecke Lounge Chair
Summary
To architect and sculptor Jonathan Muecke, material is elemental, repetition is clarity, and logic is freedom. In designing furniture for Knoll, Muecke applies the principles of his art practice to create a Lounge Chair that feels both raw and intentional with its primitive, rigorous, inviting form.
Dimensions
Muecke Lounge Chair
Height: 28.33″
Width: 26.75″
Depth: 3.0″
Seat Height : 17.75″
Animating Space
Trained as an architect, Jonathan Muecke thinks more about spatial relationships than any individual object. “I don’t think about chairs and tables as objects,” he says. “I think about them in terms of material—as markers of human scale, physical records in relational space.”
Whether he’s creating furniture or sculpture, Muecke seeks to identify and express the internal logic of his materials. It’s a process he finds generous and freeing. “Only when something has internal logic does it have a have a chance at external relationships with other things,” he says.
Jonathan Muecke
From his Minneapolis studio, Jonathan Muecke (pronounced “mih-kee”) strips objects to their essential elements, nearly to the point of abstraction. Often using just one material—wood, aluminum, carbon fiber—his practice challenges the boundaries of art, architecture, and design. Trained as an architect, Muecke holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
