Design i Trä - under 5000 år, Design in wood

The exhibition presents wood as a living art - from 3000 BC. to 2000 AD.
Through thousands of years this material has mirrored the timelessness and beauty of the furniture designers, architects, artists, designers and craftspeople.
Furniture and architectural elements are highlighted from the Museum's unique collections Mediterranean with an emphasis on material from Egypt, but also from other cultures around the Mediterranean. These paintings show a great knowledge of design and craftsmanship, which strongly influenced the art of furniture through the millennia. The unique bed from about 3000 f.Kr is an outstanding example of early art furniture. Another example is the Egyptian folding chair from about 2000 f.Kr, which through the millennia has remained a symbol of power and the present day.
A large number of architects have found inspiration in the ancient tradition, where you can follow two main lines of the Egyptian and the Greco-Roman. In the exhibition including Ole Wanschers Egyptian folding chair, stool Tutanchamon Josef Frank furniture and architect Åke Axelsson Klismos-chair, a modern successor to the Greek Klismos seat from about 410 BC. His past chair Cleopatra presented for the first time.
Common to them all is that they are looking for furniture architecture's basic elements.
The exhibition also displays some forty Egyptian furniture models by architect Dan Svarth to illustrate the breadth of the Egyptian furniture tradition.
Further aspects of the wood are highlighted in a collaboration with Carl Malmsten School and artist Kiki Bergqvist-Selder, located at the intersection of architecture and sculpture. She was always an artist imprisoned by the Egyptian culture. The functional and enigmatic, while the head restraints in our collection Kiki inspired to create a rest, a monumental main support for our central hall. This is where ancient and contemporary in an artistic expression.
The exhibition also displays some forty Egyptian furniture models by architect Dan Svarth to illustrate the breadth of the Egyptian furniture tradition.
Further aspects of the wood are highlighted in a collaboration with Carl Malmsten School and artist Kiki Bergqvist-Selder, located at the intersection of architecture and sculpture. She was always an artist imprisoned by the Egyptian art. The functional and enigmatic, while the head restraints in our collection Kiki inspired to create Vila, a monumental main support for our central hallway. This is where ancient history and contemporary in an artistic expression. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2004-09-08, google translate)