Naço Gallery, Paris
Meuble Libre   2011
An exhibition of furniture made from raw materials left on the street, used as is. The shape and nature of the objects, created immediately & spontaneously on the spot, are determined by the materials available at that moment, the place where they were found and the basic tools available.
 
"It is not unusual these days to come across by chance curious furniture on street corners: spontaneous, urban objects - seats, shelves, tables, etc by Jeremy Edwards assembled and exhibited in situ on the street.
Meuble Libre is about furniture items made from a given pile of discarded material. The form and nature of the items, made immediately and spontaneously in situ, are determined by the materials available at that moment, the place where they were found and the tools at hand. Once the pieces are finished, they are left in place to be re-claimed by anyone who wants them”.
A sort of “street design”, generous and free to take, free to use like free software, as if the pieces of vernacular design discarded in the street were a huge domain of formal code to be manipulated, broken, reconfigured and from it generate new forms.

Meuble Libre proposes a reflection, which gives a vision of accessible design, approachable by everyone and evolving, as a consequence, into a questioning of dogmatic design. It is particularly the creative method of making, how objects develop and can be interpreted and the appropriation of those objects by others, which interests the designer Jeremy Edwards – including the constraints imposed by the given materials and the urban context  – all as open to change as the furniture to which he gives a second life. An exhibition “manifeste” which references projects by Tord Boontje, Martino Gamper, Enzo Mari and Gabriel" Orozco.