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Schuldenfrei explains that the modern architects displayed in the exhibit were concerned with new ideas for a new way of living. In various ways, the chairs in the exhibit display attempts to deal with ideas of health, indoor and outdoor living, the use of new materials and technologies and functionalism and rationalism. Le Corbusier, one of the featured artists, famously called a house a “machine for living.” The chair is something of a machine for rest, Schuldenfrei says. Each one is meticulously created, with intentionality behind every material, angle, and seat cushion...
Each chair in the exhibit was intended to be used, and some of the architects even intended to mass produce them. For the most part, however, the chairs ended up in the homes of wealthy patrons...
...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...
Nisbet explained the difficulty many museums often face when trying to do architecture shows. He said that the emphasis in the exhibit need not necessarily be on the chairs themselves. Rather, they create windows into the architects’ larger plans and styles...