Set Menjadors - Mariona Moncunill

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Kitchen
Exhibitions
Fundació Joan Miró
FUNCTIONAL BLACK
Eighteen resistant and
practical chairs wait to
perform their duty.
The dining room is located
in the Fundació Joan Miró
building, which opened in 1975
and was designed by Josep Lluís
Sert, one of the pioneers of the
rationalist movement in Spain.
Jaume Freixa enlarged the
building in 1988.
The shape of the room is
rectangular, almost square. It
is an open plan space, with a
surface of approximately 30 m2 .
It lacks any natural light, and
air only comes into the space
through the openings on the
top part of one of its partitions.
The colour combinations on
the walls are the most striking
part of the room: white, grey,
and pistachio green, tones
known to reduce the feeling
of fatigue. Two artworks by
Juan Carlos Escudero hang
exhibition out of ‘Open Dining
Room’, a series of internal exhi
bitions by and for the workers.
The functional aspects
of the dining room have been and tubes of these appliances
resolved in the following way: are left out in the open. The
the kitchen, vending machines, tables are made up of two long
fridges and bins are situated on white melamine boards screwed
two of the sides of the space, to the wall on one end, and
leaving room for a corridor that cylindrical stainless steel legs
takes up most of the space, holding them up on the other.
and which is used as a point The black, foldable iron chairs
of access for the dining room. are, due to their characteristics,
The elements are randomly more appropriate for multi
laid out on the sides, following functional spaces or temporary
decisions taken in the moment, events. The kitchen is a basic
and there is no apparent con
nection between the furniture, The intensive use of
artefacts, and appliances of the the space is betrayed by the
spaces and the fridges are on and in the wear and tear of the
opposite corners. The cables furniture.
The wall colour
combination reduces
the feeling of fatigue
GREEN AND GREY
These two walls enliven the
whole room.
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