Konstantinos Kambouroglou ’95 Shares His Film 'How to Steal a Chair'
2 p.m. Saturday, April 21, 2018
Join Konstantinos Kambouroglou ’95 as he shares his film How to Steal a Chair with the Grinnell community and speaks about the making of the film.
A meditation on passion and lost dreams, this modern Greek tale follows a celebrated designer and collector as he struggles to salvage his legacy.
A free, public screening of the documentary and discussion with the director will being at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 21, 2018, in Harris Center Cinema.
Synopsis
Stergios Delialis is a 72-year-old Greek designer, collector, and educator buried under the weight of his lost dream: the Thessaloniki Design Museum, which made an international splash and then died a slow and peculiar death in the 1990s.
He is also buried under the weight of his enormous design collection, once the core of his museum and now defunct and too costly to maintain amidst the financial crisis.
The film follows Stergios as he realizes he has become a ghost in his own life and contemplates parting with his collection. Meanwhile, he undertakes to produce a retrospective of his own design work in the building of his lost museum.
Kambouroglou's visit is sponsored by the Office of the President.