Minimalist “Ply Chair I” by Jasper Morrison for Vitra

Design era Eighties
Designer Jasper Morrison
Period 1988
Materials: beech plywood, screws, glue
Vitra factory
Dimensions 40 × 84 × 47 cm
Condition: Good condition with slight signs of wear.

Story
In 1988, the young British designer Jasper Morrison participated in the "Designwerkstatt Berlin" (Berlin Design Workshop). As a result of his three-month residency in the city, Morrison presented the exhibition installation " Some New Items for the Home, Part I" at the DAAD Gallery.
Morrison presented a sparsely furnished room with only a few, deliberately simple objects – essentially a table, three chairs, and three green glass bottles. The floor and walls were constructed of plywood panels, and the furniture, with the exception of the table legs, was also made of this material.
From today's perspective, it may seem surprising why this small, unassuming exhibition attracted so much attention in the design world. However, against the backdrop of the formal gimmicks of postmodernism, which became increasingly extravagant in the 1980s and were characterized by an ever more frantic striving for originality, Morrison's presentation, with its demonstrative simplicity and restraint, seemed refreshingly different. Morrison's Berlin installation was interpreted as an anti-postmodern manifesto that simultaneously marked the beginning of a "New Simplicity."