397 Chairs
Essay by Arthur C. Danto and photographs by Jennifer Levy
8vo. pp. 96. b/w & colour illustrations. hardcover. dw. (fine condition). [New York]: Harry N. Abrams Inc., [1988].
Based on an exhibition created by The Architectural League of New York.
ISBN 10: 0810916983 / ISBN 13: 9780810916982
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What is a chair? More than 300 designers, architects, and furniture makers from around the world attempted to answer that question when they submitted chairs to an exhibition sponsored by The Architectural League of New York in 1986. Made from all manners of materials--steel, fabric, wood, plastic, aluminum, fiberglass--and running from serious solitary utilitarian seats to whimsical models, the range and variety of the designer's answers, all 397 of them illustrated here, are truly stunning. What is a chair? More than 300 designers, architects, and furniture makers from around the world attempted to answer that question when they submitted chairs to an exhibition sponsored by The Architectural League of New York in 1986. Made from all manners of materials--steel, fabric, wood, plastic, aluminum, fiberglass--and running from serious solitary utilitarian seats to whimsical models, the range and variety of the designer's answers, all 397 of them illustrated here, are truly stunning.