Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: "HIH (Honey I'm Home)" Chair
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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"HIH (Honey I'm Home)" Chair
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Image View:
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Side view showing yellow painted chair, red neoprene cover and red slippers
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Creator:
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Cédric Sportes (Canadian industrial designer, born ca. 1969)
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Location:
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repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 2006.231
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Location Note:
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National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest
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GPS:
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+46.801106-71.225064
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Date:
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2002 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Canadian
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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chair (furniture form)
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Classification:
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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
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Material:
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Neoprene; painted chipboard
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); painting and painting techniques
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Subjects:
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advertising and industrial design; contemporary (1960 to present); decorative arts; social commentary; feminism; satire
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Description:
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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/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Twelve
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Identifier:
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1A1-MODES-HIH-A04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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