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Robert Venturi with Denise Scott Brown

Chippendale chair

Knoll International
USA, 1985
laminate over plywood, leather 37½ h × 25 w × 24½ d in (95 × 63 × 62 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $2,772
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This chair features the Grandmother pattern laminate designed by Denise Scott Brown. Paper manufacturer's label to underside ‘Knoll International’ and partial distributor's label.
literature: Out of the Ordinary, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates: Architecture, Urbanism, Design, Brownlee, DeLong and Hiesinger, pg. 209 Knoll: A Modernist Universe, Lutz, ppg. 214-215 1000 Chairs, Fiell and Fiell, pg. 549

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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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