{"id":28627,"date":"2015-10-09T10:38:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T09:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/?p=28627"},"modified":"2016-02-15T18:51:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:51:46","slug":"how-historys-most-hated-chairs-became-todays-most-iconic-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/how-historys-most-hated-chairs-became-todays-most-iconic-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"How History\u2019s Most Hated Chairs Became Today\u2019s Most Iconic Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is good design? These are questions vanguard interior designer\u00a0Jim Walrod\u00a0poses with his new show, \u201cDifficult,\u201d at Tribeca\u2019s R & Company\u00a0<\/a>gallery, opening tonight.\u00a0Here, you will walks through of today\u2019s most sought-after chairs<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>and the film clips that will make you think twice before snickering at where design might be headed next.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCone\u201d chair designed by Verner Panton for Plus Linje, Denmark, 1958.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the movie\u00a0Diamonds Are Forever<\/em>, there\u2019s an amazing scene from the John Lautner house. There are two female villains who are sitting in chairs \u2014a Pierre Paulin Ribbon chair and a Gaetano Pesce Up 5, which is the form and shape of a woman. One of the women rolls out of it and says to\u00a0Sean Connery, \u2018Hi, I\u2019m Bambi\u2019 before kicking his ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cNobody\u2019s Perfect\u201d Chair. Designed by Gaetano Pesce, circa 2002.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

\u201cGaetano Pesce\u2014our living genius as far as I\u2019m concerned. He is a designer who worked within a realm of very controlled, very designed furniture. He designed furniture for Knoll, Cassina, and at one point he decided that he didn\u2019t want to deal with anyone anymore, and he learned how to pour this furniture on his own. This was limited edition\u2014I think there were 100 made\u2014with Etro fabrics in it. It\u2019s free-form Expressionist furniture. The first time I saw [his work], I was in Moss and there were three heads of museums standing next to me and saying, \u2018He\u2019s lost his mind.\u2019 \u2018What is he doing?\u2019 And I thought it was the most beautiful thing I\u2019d ever seen in my life. I was thinking, \u2018Give me more of\u00a0that<\/em>.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Lounge chair in black woven steel mesh. Designed by Sol Bloom, 1950<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve actually seen this chair do damage. Women will never sit in it if they have a dress on. When they stand up, it looks like they have cellulite all over the back of their legs. I\u2019ve had old men ask, \u2018What are you going to use this thing for, a barbecue grill?\u2019 It\u2019s seen as something really beautiful and iconic now\u2014sculptural; light passes through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

J.A. Motte table and chairs with Chambost vase \u2013 Villa Arpel<\/p>\n

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\u201cFurniture like this is constantly mocked in\u00a0Mon Oncle<\/em>, the Jacques Tati film. It\u2019s very still, there are women sitting on these things and they can\u2019t get comfortable. It\u2019s a complete indictment of this type of furniture, that is very pulled back and directly to the line of more is less.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTawaraya\u201d boxing ring sculpture seating unit. Designed by Masanori Umeda for Memphis, circa 1981<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boxing ring is hysterical\u2014it\u2019s a living room. There were probably only four or five of them made. Anyone who saw it mocked it hard. It\u2019s seen as such an iconic thing now, such a pure moment of Memphis and Postmodernism. You can lean against the ropes, you can do the same things as you can do as far as chairs.<\/p>\n

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