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Collections: Decorative Arts: Side Chair, "Easy Edges"

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!

posted by shelley

17:30 12/20/2008

I love the curvilinear lines that comprise this chair!

posted by ninakuriloff

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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
Frank Gehry (American, born 1929). Side Chair, "Easy Edges," Designed 1971; Manufactured ca. 1982. Corrugated cardboard, pressed board, wood, 33 3/8 x 14 x 23 1/4 in. (84.8 x 35.6 x 59.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Paul F. Walter, 83.108.1 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 83.108.1_view2_bw.jpg)
• 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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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!

posted by shelley

17:30 12/20/2008

I love the curvilinear lines that comprise this chair!

posted by ninakuriloff

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