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On the edge of your seat : chairs for the 21st century.
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English
Published/Created
Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing Ltd ; Philadelphia, PA : The Center for Art in Wood, [2016]
©2016
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286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
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Chairs
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Chair design
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Philadelphia
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Center for Art in Wood (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd
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Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition held at The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, Pa., May 6-July 23, 2016.
"With a three-century retrospective of Philadelphia chair design"--Dust jacket.
Artists include: Jennifer Anderson; Justin G. Bailey; Bob Brox; Stoel Burrowes; Carrie Compton (collaborting with Doug Jones); Sheri Crider (collaborating with Nina Dubois); Alicia Dietz; Nina Dubois collaborating with Sheri Crider); Jack R. Elliott; Dugan Essick; Adrian Ferrazzutti; Amy Forsyth; Jordan Gehman; Sophie Glenn; Tad Gloeckler; Doug Jones (collaborting with Carrie Compton); Lauren Kalman; Patrick Kana; David Knopp; Beth Krensky; Joseph G. La Macchia; Jack Larimore; Po Shun Leong; Laura Mays; Christine Mei; Taiji Miyasaka; Mira Nakashima; Christy Oates; Keunho Peter Park; Gord Peteran; Dean Pulver; Andrew Jay Rumpler; Fabiano Sarra; Matt Selnick; Mark Sfirri; Michaela Crie Stone; Joshua Torbick; Misha Volf; Takahiro Yoshino.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-286) and index.
Contents
Prologue / Roy Superior
On the edge of your seat: chairs for the 21st century / Richard R. Goldberg
From The Furniture Society / Steffanie Dotson
Introduction / Albert LeCoff with Tina C. LeCoff
Chairs and chairmaking in Philadelphia: a selective pictorial history / Joshua Lane
Slouching towards the apocalypse / Nora Atkinson
The elegance of brilliant intention / Jasper Brinton
Formal thoughts on sitting figures / Benjamin Colman
Some observations on twenty-first-century seating / Susie Silbert.
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ISBN
9780764351693
0764351699
LCCN
2016933718
OCLC
946462743
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