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Renate Hoffleit: Light chair

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Renate Hoffleit: Lichtstuhl
Brennerstraße 36
70182 Stuttgart

For the wall niche of the corner building at Brennerstraße 29 on Stuttgart’s Weberplätzle, Renate Hoffleit designed a chair made of translucent marble that sits enthroned on a small platform high above the heads of passers-by. The chair seat and backrest begin to glow in the sunlight. Associations can be awakened with the enthroned Madonna with the baby Jesus, the bringer of light, on her lap. But here the “throne” remains empty - only the light takes its place on it.

Artist Renate Hofleit
Title Light chair
Year 1989
Materials Portuguese marble, Estremoz cream color
Dimensions 133 cm x 36 cm x 42 cm
Location Weberplätzle, house Brennerstraße 29, 70182 Stuttgart, Germany
Client City of Stuttgart, Department of Structural Engineering (art on building competition) carried out with Wohnbau Baden-Württemberg (developer of LBS)

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  • B. Widmann