Thonet Furniture Design Museum London, Pan European Living Room, Interior, Pictures
Thonet at Design Museum, London
Pan European Living Room Installation by OMA in England, UK – Products & Classics
15 Nov 2016
Thonet at Design Museum, London
Thonet is naturally at home in the new Design Museum
At home in the world?s living rooms ? and top design museums:
Thonet icons take their place in the Pan European Living Room, an installation by OMA for the re-launch of the Design Museum, London
Renowned furniture innovator Thonet, whose iconic designs have had an immeasurable influence on the furniture industry for nearly 200 years, is delighted to have been selected to feature in one of the special installations created for the re-opening of London?s prestigious Design Museum.
On November 24th 2016, the Design Museum opens the doors to its new Kensington location and celebrates with a fascinating exhibition entitled Fear and Love ? Reactions to a Complex World. This multi-disciplinary event features eleven distinct installations and explores how design is deeply connected not just to commerce and culture but to urgent underlying global issues ? issues that inspire fear and love.

Conceived by OMA, the architecture practice founded by Rem Koolhaas, The Pan European Living Room is a response to the shock-waves of Brexit. Furnished with a piece of design from each of the 28 EU member states, the installation proposes that our very notion of the domestic interior has been sha...