Walking-Chair Design Studio

The Walking-Chair Design Studio is a strongly interdisciplinary design studio founded by Karl Emilio Pircher (* 1963 in Bozen , Italy ) and Fidel Peugeot (* 1969 in Basel , Switzerland ) in Vienna .

profile

Pircher and Peugeot got to know each other in 1999 at the Lomographic AG by working together on various projects. In 2002 they founded their own office. The name comes from one of the first internationally sensational works by Pircher, the Walking Chair from 2000.

The duo first attracted international attention in 2002 when they took part in the Designer's Block in London with their works “Walking Chair”, “Ping-Meets Pong” and “Bottleboy”. After the success in London, Pircher and Peugeot decided in 2003 to found the Walking-Chair Design Studio GmbH.

The interdisciplinary orientation is evident in the varied projects that have been implemented and the motto “We make things and songs”.

Walking-Chair currently has three fields of activity:

1. The Walking Chair Design Studio
2. The Walking Chair Gallery, in which design positions by other artists have been shown since 2005
3. Walking-Things, an online design platform with a focus on its own products and selected pieces by other Viennese designers.

Projects

Exhibition, event and interior design

• 2009 Hofmobilien Depot Vienna : Crown Prince Rudolf - traces of life

• 2009 Design of the children's info point for the European Capital of Culture Linz '09 (curated by ZOOM Kindermuseum, Vienna)

• 2009 Knowledge Space, Karlsplatz Vienna

project space Karlsplatz

• 2008 Marienapotheke Vienna

• 2006 Shop Völkerkunde Museum , Vienna

• 2006 Personal Shopper, Messe Frankfurt GmbH

• 2005 Az W Architekturzentrum Wien : permanent exhibition at a_schau

• 2002–2006 VIP area of ​​the Life Ball , Vienna

architecture

• 2008 “Aquana” water park in Banja Luka , Bosnia

Own exhibitions

• 2009> You May <DMY Berlin 09, winner of the DMY Award

• 2009> happy landing < Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna

• 2008> PET Light Show <, DMY Berlin 08

• 2006 U.DA Madrid

• 2005 Pure Austrian Design FAD (Spain)

• 2005 Anders als Immer - German Design Show (International)

• 2005 Typosonic, Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt (Germany)

• 2005> Action Bottleboy <, Dakar (Senegal)

• 2004 Bookmark - Selection of Central European Typography, Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum Den Haag (Netherlands)

• 2004> Ping Meets Pong <, MAK Nite, Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna

• 2004 Virtual Frame, Kunsthalle Wien

• 2003 A Design Now, traveling exhibition, international

• 2002 postscript, K / Haus Wien , (Austria)

literature

• Tulga Beyerle / Karin Hirschberger: Walking Chair . In: Design landscape Austria. 1900-2005. Birkhäuser 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7328-8 , p. 204
• Peter Stuiber: Between Wittgenstein and Hundertwasser. Anarchically serious: the duo Walking Chair . In: D esign & Vienna. Where the city is in shape. Metro 2007, ISBN 978-3-902517-14-2 , pp. 100-101
• Andreas Pawlik, Martin Tiefenthaler (eds.): Fidel Peugeot . In: fonts / 1993-2007 / AUT / minimal, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-900896-04-1 , pp. 44-52

Web links

• Official website
• Profile of the Walking Chair in the Encyclopædia Britannica
• “Walking chair” conversation with Karl Emilio Pirchner and Fidel Peugot in the radio series A palaver freely available as stream, March 7, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kronprinz Rudolf-Lebensspuren  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Exhibition Hofmobiliendepot Vienna  
2. ↑ Kinderpunkt09 ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. European Capital of Culture Linz 2009 
3. ↑ Vienna Knowledge Space ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Design of the exhibition in 2009 
4. ↑ a_schau Austrian Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Architekturzentrum Wien 2005
5. ↑ Aquana photo gallery
6. ↑ DMY Awards Winners 2009 DMY Berlin 2009
7. ↑ Show me what you have PET Light Show Berlin 2008
8. ↑ Typosonic 2005 ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ Postscript on the form of writing today, exhibition Künstlerhaus Wien 2002