Dates: 21st to 29th October 2016

Venue: IDS, Building 8, GTU, 75 Kostava Street, Tbilisi and Tbilisi 

area incl. the River Mtkvari Bank

Event: Thonet’s Stories: In the Footsteps of Distribution. Thonet Chair N 14 or a Deconstruction of a Viennese Chair

Format: IDS / University of Applied Arts Vienna Exchange Workshop Series

Instructors: Brigitte Prinzgau and Wolfgang Podgorschek of PRINZGAU/podgorschek, designers, animators, film producers/operators/directors, and Tatia Skhirtlazde, of University of Applied Arts Vienna

Poster © Nino Akhobadze

GTU International Design School and Vienna Applied Arts University joint project, now in its third year, this time was back at the IDS, where it was initiated and launched by the Austrian designers two years       ago. The project this year was different since it contained a greater number of events. The Thonet Stories were celebrated in the media and the events were attended by the Georgian Education and Science Minister and the Austrian Ambassador in Georgia. The Thonet Chair No 14 became a symbol of modernity and a revolutionary precedent for designing a simple and decent furniture. It was produced worldwide and as early as at the beginning of the XX century started to be manufactured in Tbilisi. Nowadays you can find it in Tbilisi cafes, as well as in apartments, and don’t be surprised if you suddenly notice that its rims are even used as basketball baskets in the courtyards of Old Tbilisi.