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...Rocker, $285-$385 This elegant twist on the bentwood chair comes in a chic dark stain...
Imagine the scene. The stage is dark except for a small pool of light at its center. A vase of yellow tulips sits on a small table. A bentwood chair tilts picturesquely to one side...
Many of the great chairs of the era were designed for cafes, only natural in an urban subculture of coffeehouse-and-cabaret cosmopolites. Adolf Loos' lithe, sensual sidechair for his Cafe Museum (1899) makes its Thonet bentwood forebears look dowdy by comparison. Loos' nemesis Hoffmann, though, was the absolute master of furniture and domestic objects. No one has designed handsomer seating in the 20th century. His best-known and most widely copied chair was designed for the Kabarett Fledermaus (1907), a club by and for the avant-garde. The regularity of its limbs and parts is strict, but as with...
Second City rests on the sparest of theatrical trappings: a few bentwood chairs, a bit of lighting, a piano and six performers. At the start of one recent show, four of them are onstage as Soviet agents trained to imitate the people of Chicago. ("I am a full professor, so I only talk to graduate students." "I don't do anything; I work for the city.") The props are simple and the costuming sparse. Ski hats and overcoats are enough to dress all six as victims of Reagan-era policies. "We wear our characters lightly and dress them lightly," says...
...force for beauty and meaning. Nor is the modern mode of Scandinavian design frozen into an abstract machine aesthetic. It is a creative way of meeting changing practical and emotional needs. Seen in this context, Danish modern is fresh, exciting and timeless. Like Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto's bentwood armchair (circa 1929) or Norwegian Eystein Sandnes' 1959 porcelain tableware, Danish modern transcends fashion...