Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
"HIH (Honey I'm Home)" Chair
Image View:
Side view showing yellow painted chair, red neoprene cover and red slippers
Creator:
Cédric Sportes (Canadian industrial designer, born ca. 1969)
Location:
repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 2006.231
Location Note:
National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest
GPS:
46.801106-71.225064
Date:
2002 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Canadian
Style Period:
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
chair (furniture form)
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
Neoprene; painted chipboard
Technique:
construction (assembling); painting and painting techniques
Subjects:
advertising and industrial design; contemporary (1960 to present); decorative arts; social commentary; feminism; satire
Description:
Sportes was the designer of the chair for the Montreal design collective MODESDEMPLOI, Inc., established 2001. The chair tackles the stereotype of man the provider whose wife awaits him at home. The slippers, red carpet and yellow chair (playing on the idea of the gilding of a throne) highlight the idea of the male chauvinist. (Source: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec [website]; www.mnbaq.org/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Twelve
Identifier:
1A1-MODES-HIH-A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

"HIH (Honey I'm Home)" Chair