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My first act was to “make a chair”<\/span>\u2014as if “making a chair” were the foundational act of all furniture design. My chairs occupy a space between these two functions: while they are, as they should be, objects for practical use, they also carry Admittedly, the materials and techniques employed make them heavy; they can rust, and they are cold to the touch. Yet, compared to a wooden chair, I discovered that metal allows for a gesture that is simple and pure\u2014the materialization of And, when it comes down to it\u2014for an idea\u2014it is actually quite comfortable. Text written in 2001 to celebrate iron chairs<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n My first act was to “make a chair”\u2014as if “making a chair” were the foundational act of all furniture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":67736,"parent":39768,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67737","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nWhy should the mere act of resting our posteriors upon it make an object so significant?
\nIn our Western societies, we certainly spend a great deal of time in chairs\u2014working, writing, eating, talking\u2026
\nThe chair serves as the prosaic support for countless daily activities.
\nIn other societies, the chair does not exist at all, or else it exists solely as a symbol of power.<\/p>\n
\na symbolic weight <\/span>\u2014expressing choices that go beyond the simple act of sitting.<\/p>\n
\nFurthermore, unlike the bed, the metal chair is not particularly common in our culture.<\/p>\n
\nan almost calligraphic sign in spac<\/span>e, an apparent lightness of “writing,”
\nwhere technique becomes fluid in the service of an idea.<\/p>\n
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