reproduction bed in business

2024

Commission: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Production: Jongeriuslab
Category: Exhibition

For a group exhibition Private Lives: From the Bedroom to Social Media (L’intime de la chambre aux revaux sociaux), Hella brought Bed in Business back by reproducing this installation at the request of The Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. This version of Bed in Business (2024) represents a way of working and living, dreaming and roaming. And how this became intertwined with each other. No one could think of this way of living in the year of 2001, when the original Bed in Business was created by Hella at the request of MoMA. Nowadays, it is almost impossible to imagine our daily lives without the blurred boundaries between public and private life. Apart from the bed, Jongerius designed a quilt made out of 30 years of upholstery fabrics from Maharam, New York. ⁠ ⁠

You can visit the exhibition Private Lives: From the Bedroom to Social Media (L’intime de la chambre aux revaux sociaux) from 15 October 2024 to 30 March 2025. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris takes you on a fascinating journey into the heart of our inner sanctum through a history of privacy, from the 18th century to the present day.