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	MARKUS WOLF, 2004: BOOTLEG OBJECTS: SERIES SELF
	The Object series “Self” - which, like the other series, initially consists of three objects – shows yet another apporach to the appropriation of form: here, the shapes of well-known design classics serve as vessels for a more emotional load. I, the designer, chose to exchange the wooden parts of the furniture with material that's recycled from my own life; wood that has been around, that witnessed my past, that has soaked up like a sponge all that is left of these times: memory. Emotional upgrades for ready-made products. This series can be extended endlessly For a start, I have bootlegged from mid-20th century designers from three continents. The items are not for sale; but the work is. You have to choose a piece of wood from your life; then it can be transformed into something new, ready to accumulate more history. Contact us to commission a work.
	BOOTLEG OBJECT #BO.07: Self Ray
	Cherrywood orig. by Ray Eames, 1960 authorized reedition 2001 by Vitra Design Museum Price on application purchasing information The classical “Stool” by Ray Eames (for the lobby of the Time-Life Building, 1960) is a beautiful piece of furniture, but it is flawed: It has nothing to do with the person buying it. Here is a remake of it made from the cherry tree that grew in my parents' garden. I would climb ub that tree when I was a kid. The cherries were the best in the neighborhood. Kids would rollerskate for miles just to steal them. When my parents felled the tree, not only the doves and sparrows were saddened. Other than the original, this stool is turned from a single piece of wood, in order not to hurt the material more than necessary.
	BOOTLEG OBJECT #BO.08: Isamu Rocking Self Noguchi
	Maplewood, chrome plated steel. orig. by Isamu Noguchi, 1954 authorized reedition 2001 by Vitra Design Museum / Isamu Noguchi Design Foundation Price on application purchasing information Noguchi designed this chair in 1954 for Herman Miller as one version for children and one for grown-ups. Metal parts of this stool are from a new original model I bought from the vitra design museum collection. Wooden parts have been replaced by a piece of the kitchen counter of my former flat. I had made the counter myself in my university's workshop when I moved in with my then-girlfriend. I moved out five years later when we split. We're still good friends, you know, and she let me have the countertop when I asked her to. I made the children's version of this chair, as an heirloom to hand down to my son in a while.
	BOOTLEG OBJECT #BO.09: Max Self Bill et al.
	Fir and Beechwood orig. by Max Bill. Hans Gugelot und Paul Hildinger, 1954 Price on application purchasing information Dubbed the “ulm stool”, this straight piece of furniture used to be a staple object in the influential HfG Ulm school of design in the sixties. I had the soft wood parts removed from a new stool and asked my carpenter to replace them with boards from the ceiling of my teenage sleeping room. Those dreaded boards were widely in use in the seventies and eighties in central Europe. I had lived in them for almost all of my childhood. Thus, this enhanced Ulm stool has on its outside the original patina from years of sunlight and secretly smoking. In order not to destroy this delicate texture, the joinery between the boards must not be sanded or finely finished, which gives it a rather coarse, very pleasurable handmade aura. As the hardwood parts of the fabricated stool were retained, this stool still has the original serial number stamped on its underside.