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...It’s really amazing,” Jack says. “We have this wonderful vertical space and there are really no doors to cut it off. The architect of the House originally wanted this to be a gallery space, and [the house staff] has seen that, and seen it to fruition...
...It’s really amazing,” Jack says. “We have this wonderful vertical space and there are really no doors to cut it off. The architect of the House originally wanted this to be a gallery space, and [the house staff] has seen that, and seen it to fruition...
...Architect: A Son’s Journey...
...tension between art and practical use presented by the chairs offers one of the interesting contradictions of the exhibit. Each architect worked with the explicit goal of creating a useful thing—chairs were meant to be easily portable to move through the variety of spaces being created in their buildings. They were never created as sculpture or art of-and-for-itself. But the chairs, which never reached very large audiences, find themselves in a gallery after...
...exhibit includes a chair by architect Jean Prouvé, who designed a sanitarium for recovering World War I veterans. Each room in the building was equipped with a bed, table and chair, and each chair was a chaise longue. In the context of Prouvé’s art, the chaise longue is a tool of recuperation, intended for relaxation out on the porch and in the open...