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Tuesday, 19 October 2004 | Levent OZLER
Jenga Cahir In The Brohan Museum
Press Release
The Art Director of Hurriyet newspaper, Reha Erdogan, has exhibited his designs at the ADesign Fair in I.stanbul on October 2004.
His Jenga Chair has become the first Turkish design that has been invited to the Brohan Museum in Berlin, as Torsten Bröhan, the jurer of ADesign Fair 2004, found the chair worthwhile.
Torsten Bröhan has personally visited Mr. Erdogan at his stand and made him the offer at sight; Mr. Bröhan decided to exhibit jenga chair at his "chair museum", and include jenga chair in his book on chair designs.
Also Prof. Mel Byars advised Mr. Erdogan to send the tealight illumination to the Budha Bar in Paris as a decoration concept as he thought it would fit there perfectlly. He has admired the attach chair and the vacuum chair, too.
Torsten Brohan, the CEO of Brohan Art, is the worldvide famous art and design creator. He collects outstandig, successsful artworks for the 17 museums he manages.
Prof. MEL BYARS : DESIGN HISTORIAN
Acclaimed design historian Mel Byars has written more than a dozen books
on contemporary applied art, including 50 chairs: Innovations in Design
and Materials. Many have been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese,
and Chinese. Prof. Byars's 826-page work -- The Design Encyclopedia
featuring over 3,500 enteries -- has just been published by the Museum
Of Modern Art, New York. He has taught design history at Pratt Institute
of Technology, both in New York City; contributes articles to a number
of magazines and lectures widely.
(Please see www.melbyars.com for more information.)
TORSTEN BROHAN:
The Founder | Biography
Torsten Bröhan, CEO of BrohanArt Inc., has been specializing for more
than twenty years in Bauhaus art, Russian Constructivism and the
international design avant-garde. In his gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany,
he organized numerous exhibitions dedicated to fine and applied arts of
the 20th century.
During his professional career he has worked with over fifty
international museums of fine and decorative arts in exhibition and
acquisition activities, and has been instrumental in the
institutionalization of important collections in Germany, Japan and
Spain, such as the Glasmuseum Immenhausen and the Museum of Art,
Utsunomiya. In 1999, the Spanish state acquired a major part of his
glass and design collection for the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
in Madrid.
In association with the DG Bank Luxembourg, he founded the first mutual
art investment fund, the Global Art Fund in 1995. Until the end of 2002,
Torsten Bröhan developed the conception of an educational website for
design, which included a design archive and a virtual design museum. His
online design magazine design-update.com offered news, reviews and
features on the international design scene.
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