Through his work, Gamper transforms old into new. In 2006 he became the foremost champion of the upcycle and repair movement with his “100 Chairs in 100 Days” project. He made one chair a day for one hundred consecutive days using discarded pieces of furniture found on the streets of London. In this more recent project, Gamper similarly repurposed preexisting objects. Chair No. 20 and Stool 7 are part of a series of sixteen pieces of furniture that were produced using the parts of twenty-four chairs designed by Italian architect Carlo Mollino for the Lutrario Ballroom in Turin, Italy, in 1959.

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Pirouette: Turning Points in Design, January 26, 2025–November 15, 2025

Medium Enameled steel and vinyl
Dimensions .a (chair): 31 × 21 × 20" (78.7 × 53.3 × 50.8 cm) .b (stool): 13 × 26 × 13" (33 × 66 × 33 cm)
Credit Committee on Architecture and Design Funds
Object number 16.2025.a-b
Department Architecture & Design

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