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Gallery Talk, FORM: Contemporary Architects at Play

Saturday, August 9, 2 pm, Level 5

Scott Boberg, CAC Curator of Education and Renee Hytry-Derrington, Group VP - Design for Formica Corporation lead a tour of FORM: Contemporary Architects at Play, an exhibition of ten high-design art objects created by architects using Formica Brand materials. Members: Free. Nonmembers: CAC admission.

These new, original artworks offer unprecedented insight into the architects' unique approach to design. For example:

· Chair #1 by Peter Eisenman is so named because it is the renowned architect's first-ever chair design.

· Zaha Hadid's audacious design for Cirrus alone utilized more than 70 sheets of Black Polished Laminate, accounting for almost half of the total usage of Formica® brand material for the exhibition.

· Michael Graves designed his J Chair so it could be disassembled and placed in flat packaging: "I wanted to use Formica's sheet or flat two-dimensional characteristic, so that the chair could be sent in a flat crate and to allow the buyer to assemble it with very little effort."

· Buzz Yudell studied the classics to name his design SUNERGY, saying, "It is important to know this name derived from the word SYNERGY, which is based on the two Greek roots of SUNERGIA and SUNERGOS, meaning cooperation … the combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects, which vividly describes our design concept."