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Chicago Chair
1986 | New York City
Wood | H: 132/335 W: 111/282 D: 84/213 (in/cm)
Disposition: Destroyed

This study was for a piece that was the first runner-up in the outdoor Chicago Sculpture Show competition of October 1986. Its design is based on a truncated triangle module and uses three legs of support in a wedge configuration. There are essentially four scaled-down versions of the same chair situated in the seat of the next, giving a telescopic feel to the whole and pushing the idea of function into symbol. This was the third large-scale sculpture to be constructed in the chair series and was exhibited at the FFA Gallery, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The Chicago Chair   From above |  Frontal view |  Maquette

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