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Harry Thaler


The young London-based designer Harry Thaler enjoys taking his playful, innovative designs beyond the realm of just clearly defined products. Sometimes as functional and poetic interventions in space and everyday life, sometimes defined by their sculptural character, as a trained goldsmith and skilled craftsman, Harry Thaler has the vision and talent to combine the conventional with the unconventional. For Nils Holger Moormann, Harry Thaler developed the lightweight, stackable Pressed Chair, for which he was awarded the 2010 Conran Award.

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Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen, a smow Pop-up at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig

...Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen's brief tour through the (hi)story of chair design in western Europe ends with Harry Thaler's 2011 Pressed Chair through Nils Holger Moormann, a chair that as Harry once told us began as "a small fork made from one piece of wood", became a desire to create a chair in one material, and which through the choice of pressed aluminium not only neatly translates the moulded plywood of, for example, Arne Jacobsen, Aino and Alvar Aalto or Charles and Ray Eames into metal, but reminds that the plastic shell of the RAR that rocks next to the Pressed Chair in Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen began life as pressed steel, before that was deemed too expensive and the, then, novel fibreglass was used... , and the development of novel technology, and novel aluminium, and novel appreciations on our use of materials, and novel appreciations of relationships with furniture, among other novelties, to enable Harry Thaler's Pressed Chair...

Object. Limited Edition Design at MIART Milan 2013

...Bond who was represented in Milan with objects from his Hexagonal Pixel Vases collection and Harry Thaler with his Silk Lamps and, the literally just completed, Silk Table - objects that combine the banal with the truly sublime, namely San Leucio silk, to create everyday objects that are anything but...

Pressed Chair by Harry Thaler for Moormann. The Film.

...If there is a chair on the market at the moment that better symbolises how complex simplicity in design is than Pressed Chair by Harry Thaler for Moormann... Then ahead of Milan 2012 Harry Thaler then told us about the long way from the original experiments with wood until he had the concept that won Nils' heart...

Milan 2012: Harry Thaler. Pressed Chair, Moormann and Me.

...At Milan 2011 Moormann presented the prototype of Pressed Chair by Harry Thaler... And so to complete the story, ahead of Milan 2012 we caught up with Harry Thaler in his London studio to learn more about both him and the background to Pressed Chair...

Design Symposium: Warum Gestalten ? @ HFBK Hamburg

...In a similar context, one of Andrej Kupetz's illustrations for a weightless world was Pressed Chair by Harry Thaler through Moormann...


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