But Where Do You Sit? Frivolous, fun furniture in bright colors and kitschy themes expanded furniture's playfulness in the 1960s. Innovative Italian designers pioneered new ideas, materials and "anti-design" shapes in domestic...
Yoruba (African people); Yoruba (African people) -- Social life and customs; Chairs
In ancient and current Yoruba culture, people of importance are symbolically and physicallly separated from the rest of society. At specific times, the feet of alaase (rulers, priests and initiates) must not be in physical contact with the earth....
Molded body-curved plastic? Why shouldn't a chair "fit" the person sitting in it? Furniture design was changed permanently in the 1940s when architect Charles Eames (1907-1978) and his wife, painter Ray Eames, began exploring furniture in...
This chair, part of Frank Gehry's "Easy Edges" series, was one of the seventeen pieces in the series made from laminated cardboard. The lamination, done at right angles, increased the strength and resilience of the collection. Originally...
Rocking chairs; Furniture; Pioneers -- West (U.S.); Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; 19th Century
Can a chair tell stories? Well, if it could this one would have many to tell! In 1851 Mrs. Kelley traded this chair with her neighbor for a long handled frying pan. Her neighbor, wanting to join the rush for gold in California, needed a pan more...
