On the edge of your seat : chairs for the 21st century.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing Ltd ; Philadelphia, PA : The Center for Art in Wood, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

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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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780764351693
    • 0764351699
    LCCN
    2016933718
    OCLC
    946462743
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