The Life and Death of Objects: Autobiography of a Design Project

Rethinking the fundamentals of planning

Lars Lerup's conceptual explorations as a designerand thinker have been inspired by philosophers and artists fromFoucault to Beckett. Lerup's furniture designs elude consumer culture.They conform neither to what is commonly understood as useful nor towhat is typically regarded as necessary. They question the assumedfunctions of furniture and, at the same time, their assigned place inspace. His pieces interrogate their roles and positions and introduce adisturbing or at least disconcerting note to conventional floor plans.

Thisautobiography of a design project is about rendering visible theconsumerism that is driving the current economically motivated expansionof our cities, and dealing with the consequences for the environmentand society.