TITLE:
Distant
prospects – boundaries exist only in the mind
CLIENT:
Hofmobiliendepot
•
Imperial Furniture Collection, vienna
YEAR: 2017
The
installation was created to complement the major jubilee exhibition focusing on
Maria Theresa at the Hofmobiliendepot • Imperial Furniture Collection. As
a typical representative of the eighteenth century, Maria Theresa loved all
things oriental. In its interiors, lacquer objects and porcelain her epoch
created its own carefree version of far-off lands. In his contribution to Vienna Design Week, the
designer Sebastian Menschhorn plays with elements and principles of the Rococo:
exotic fantasies, the dissolution of mental and physical boundaries, amorphous
forms, pleasure and intimacy. Looking outwards and inwards he creates a private
microcosm in which far and near merge in the onlooker’s perception.
