Furniture Design

"S ON as an Audi when it comes to cars. " Several practitioners described well designed furniture chairs and armchairs to enjoy the visitors and workers in the San Telmo Museum. After five years of construction, the renovated space will open with a totally new, focused on Basque society and citizenship. Why have not neglected the slightest detail, not the seat that will occupy the various rooms and offices of the museum.

For that, San Telmo has invested 100,000 euros in more than 200 chairs, a dozen chairs for reading and fifty office chairs, all design, as well as functional.

The museum organized the competition to equip their rooms and, finally, was the signing Bordonabe Navarre which has been responsible for the chairs and couches that fill the hall, media library or other spaces of San Telmo. The contest specified that the chairs should be one of the signature models or equivalent Vitra, a high-end home has clothing, for example, the editors of the New York Times or the BBC in London, Sony's offices in Los Angeles and Tokyo, of Google also in London or the Atomium in Brussels, among others.

The contest provided a maximum of 381 euros for each of these chairs, but ultimately Bordonabe been reduced to € 76,000 maximum budget for San Telmo initially estimated, of 107,000 euros. The company Navarre equip the museum with Kuadra signature chairs, the same range.

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Even more than the chairs that are stackable and which will fill the hall and most of the museum, the seats really are almost of exposure are reading chairs that can be enjoyed, for example, the rest area of ​​the media library or in the waiting room of the offices. The contest specified that these seats should be equivalent to other models of Vitra, with free and flexible back swing. The price of these chairs set up in competition was 630 euros, although Bordonabe has reduced the final price included in the said consignment of 76,000 euros.

Museum workers also provide very comfortable seating in their offices and offices. In this case, San Telmo provided 30,000 euros to invest in this equipment as budgeted a maximum price of 693 euros for house seat. Finally, however, the contractor cut the price to just under 25,000 euros.

In this case, is a joint venture company formed by Akaba, Furniture and Kefren BZZ which clothing is made by the offices of the museum.

Following the visit of officials and guests made the renovated museum on Monday, this weekend you can visit for free the first temporary exhibition of San Telmo reinvented. After this appetizer, the first permanent exhibition will be completed a few days later, which will open its doors when the new Museum of San Telmo. Its officials expect about 140,000 visitors during its first year of operation.