Possible Furniture

The »Possible Furniture« series plays with the perception of balance/unbalance and thereby questions the designer’s role. Each different piece of furniture looks like a unlikely random pile which on the contrary was precisely designed following standard design rules such as ergonomics, stability and use. In a certain way the designer’s hand is hidden. The different elements are either upholstered, or lacquered / polished.

The Designer Robert Stadler was born in 1966 in Vienna. He studied design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, then at ENSCI / Les Ateliers in Paris, where he cofounded the RADI DESIGNERS group in 1992 which was elected »Designers of the Year« by the Paris Furniture show. Since then he has been working solo while simultaneously continuing his activity with the group.

Robert Stadler intervenes in very diverse fields, obliterating all hierarchies between free proposals and industrial commissions. He explores the exhibition space in order to scramble the usual categories of art and design. He questions the status of the object as work of art or product as well as the border between preciousness and lowliness, between elegance and vulgarity, between the serious and the absurd.

Robert Stadler lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.