Cranbrook Art Museum - Exhibitions - Coffee and Tea Towers


		Cranbrook Art Museum Presents Exhibition Featuring Tea and Coffee Sets Designed by Some of the World’s Leading Architects On view at Cranbrook Art Museum, June 5-August 15, 2004. Cranbrook is the second stop on a national tour.
		<<Featured Architect: Wiel Arets
		tea and coffee set comprising: teapot: 925/1000 silver with thermoplastic resin coating cm 6,50x10,50 - h cm 28,50 2 2/4"x4 1/4" - h 11 1/4" cl 90 coffee pot: 925/1000 silver with thermoplastic resin coating cm 6,50x10,50 - h cm 28,50 2 2/4"x4 1/4" - h 11 1/4" cl 70 milk jug: 925/1000 silver with thermoplastic resin coating cm 6,50x10,50 - h cm 28,50 2 2/4"x4 1/4" - h 11 1/4" cl 25 sugar bowl with spoon: 925/1000 silver with thermoplastic resin coating, spoon in 925/1000 silver cm 6,50x10,50 - h cm 28,50
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION >>
The tea and coffee servers were commissioned by the Italian design house Alessi and present in the spring of 2003 at the Max Protetch Gallery in New York. Fabricated from a variety of materials including silver, porcelain, titanium, glass, red clay, wood, and thermoplastic resin, the server designs—many of them tower-like in form – are elegant and dazzling, seductive and whimsical. The pieces address some of the most topical issues in contemporary architecture: digital design, experimental materials, and the changing nature of the way people interact with their domestic environments. Alessandro Mendini, project director and one of the architects, writes in the accompanying book that the tea and coffee set “continues to be configured as a magical field for stylistic and technological research, as a container of ancient, steaming, richly aromatic beverages and theories.” Architects and firms in the exhibition hail from the U.S., Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia. They are Will Alsop, Wiel Arets, Gary Chang, David Chipperfield, Denton Corker Marshall, Dezso Ekler, Massimiliano Fuksas, Future Systems, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Tom Kovac, Greg Lynn, Alessandro Mendini, Morphosis (Thom Mayne), MVRDV, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Kazuyo Sejima, UN Studio/Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos. The exhibition is organized by Max Protetch Gallery, a 31-year old gallery in New York with a strong focus on architecture. Italian manufacturer and project commissioner Alessi, a company founded in 1921 and known for unorthodox but functional household items and tableware, is producing a limited edition of the tea and coffee sets for sale to collectors globally. The fully illustrated book accompanying the exhibition will be sold at The Store.
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CREDITS>>
Tea and Coffee Towers also is generously supported by the Museum Committee of Cranbrook Art Museum with individual sponsorships provided by Adele and Michael Acheson, Maggie and Robert Allesee, Jonathan and Sheri Boos, Joanne Danto, Frank Edwards and Ann Williams, Keenie and Geoffrey Fieger, Diane Kirkpatrick, David Klein and Kathryn Ostrove, Diane VanderBeke Mager, Gilbert and Lila Silverman, and Pamela Applebaum Wyett. Cranbrook Art Museum is supported, in part, by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, contributors to the Annual Fund of both Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, and the fund-raising activities of ArtMembers@Cranbrook. This exhibition was organized by Max Protetch Gallery in New York with prototypes from the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art and is sponsored by Jonathan Holtzman, Adele and Michael Acheson, and Jeanne and Ralph Graham through the Clannad Foundation.

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