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22:05 12/20/2008
Hey Nina, there's the great advertisement for these chairs - they are cardboard and the ad has two of these chairs holding up a VW Beetle!
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Side Chair, "Easy Edges"
- Designer: Frank Gehry, American, born 1929
- Medium: Corrugated cardboard, pressed board, wood
- Place Manufactured: USA
- Dates: Designed 1971; Manufactured ca. 1982
- Dimensions: 33 3/8 x 14 x 23 1/4 in. (84.8 x 35.6 x 59.1 cm)
- Markings: Unmarked
- Collections: Decorative Arts
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th floor - Accession Number: 83.108.1
- Credit Line: Gift of Paul F. Walter
- Image: Overall, 83.108.1_view2_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
- Catalogue Description: Chair formed from a single length of cross-laminated corrugated cardboard (27 layers); in profile a double S-curve, the upright back forming the beginning of the top S; the sides covered with a thin layer of pressed board; a wooden dowel serving as glide across rear of base. CONDITION: Contact areas (back, seat, calves, and heels) have wear. General wear to cardboard with many split edges and rough spots.
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