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On the edge of your seat : chairs for the 21st century.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chairs--Exhibitions.
- Chairs.
- Chairs--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Exhibitions.
- Furniture design--21st century--Catalogs.
- Furniture design.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing Ltd ; Philadelphia, PA : The Center for Art in Wood, [2016]
- 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.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780764351693
- 0764351699
- OCLC:
- 946462743
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