Slopfest #59 · 1985 · Vienna
No Straight Lines
Vienna's new landmark has wavy floors and no right angles. Our tables had been like this for years.
Museum status: Listed as "priceless" (nobody would name a price).
- Venue
- Kegelgasse, outside the Hundertwasserhaus
- Attendance
- 5,120
- Guest of honour
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser (inspected the sloping floor and approved)
- Also spotted
- A Madonna 'Like a Virgin' poster by the entrance, with a lace glove pinned underneath
- Fun fact
- 0 right angles, 1,400 wobbly chairs
What happened
Straight lines were banned for the evening. Rulers were confiscated at the door, the stage sloped and the program was drawn with a wobbly pen. Friedensreich Hundertwasser inspected the floor and approved. Guests called the result 'organic' or 'seasick'. AI image generators would later draw buildings exactly like this, and the committee has asked for royalties.
“Less is a bore.”
Elsewhere in 1985
Friedensreich Hundertwasser's Hundertwasserhaus, a housing block with wavy floors and trees on its roofs, is completed in Vienna.
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