Martino Gamper: The Art of Sitting

Martino Gamper began his career as a scavenger of discarded furniture. In the 2000s, the Merano native moved to London, which was the place to be for creatives at the time. No unwanted IKEA armchair from friends or abandoned chair on the street was safe from him. Starting in 2007, he rescued 100 abandoned chairs over the course of two years before his real work began: he took them apart—and reassembled them in new and unexpected ways. His innovative project, 100 Chairs in 100 Days, was a bold statement against our throwaway culture.