revamping author: Ola Mirecka
original design: Michael Thonet
Perline
B-1840
Ola is all about creative playtime. Most
of her designs address the need for an
agency to transform material objects –
from coat hangers to LEGO figures, as Ola
also works for that famous Billund-based
company. Her version of Thonet’s B-1840
model is about the compulsive urgency of
touching and moving bead-like elements
threaded into an armrest. As Ola put it,
“I remember the light of the springtime
entering through the window of the
dining room of our family house when
I was a kid. These long moments of
waiting for someone or something while
sitting at the table. Whistling, rolling
a ping-pong ball, tapping on the table top
and repeatedly kicking the bottom of the
table. And I can still hear my mother’s
voice in my head: Darling, can you please
stop doing this before I go nuts?”
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