Furniture Pimp: The Collection of Jim Walrod 
3 May 2018
Furniture Pimp: The Collection of Jim Walrod 
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Robert Venturi with Denise Scott Brown

Chippendale chair

Knoll International
USA, 1985
laminate over plywood 37½ h × 25½ w × 24 d in (95 × 65 × 61 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $3,250
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This chair features the Grandmother pattern designed by Denise Scott Brown.
literature: Out of the Ordinary, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates: Architecture, Urbanism, Design, Brownlee, DeLong and Hiesinger, pg. 209

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They’re examples of Postmodernism and I realized maybe this is the reason I like difficult furniture or atonal furniture. You don’t go, “Okay’s where’s my chairs?” You go “Holy shit what is that thing?” You have to think about it. It invades you and makes your feel uncomfortable in a lot of ways, and that’s the point. It opens up dialogue.

Jim Walrod on Venturi

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