June 9 to October 9, 2011
Museum of Modern Art | Picture Gallery

The collection of applied art of the Olomouc Museum of Art, founded in 1997, currently comprises nearly 200 items and illustrates in a representative manner the evolution of the design of seating furniture from the mid-19th century up to the beginning of the 21st century. Although it focuses primarily on seating furniture designed by renowned designers there are also significant industrial products. It includes a comprehensive collection of bentwood furniture made by the Moravian companies Thonet and J. & J. Kohn, Art Nouveau furniture by Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner and Dušan Jurkovič, as well as examples of modern 20th century design (e.g. Mies van den Rohe, Jindřich Halabala, etc.), seating furniture from the 1960s (Bohemia, Italy) and examples of artist’s furniture (Yves Klein, Milan Knížák and the Atika Group). This representative exhibition ranks among the most attractive projects of the year.