The Minneapolis Institute of Art presents Chairevolution! 300 Years of Designing the Chair on view through Sunday, February 6, 2011.
Take a look at how design has evolved over 300 years with an examination of a single object: the chair. From the basic Tudor to Phillippe Starck’s Louis Ghost Armchair for Kartell, this exhibition of 20 chairs shows how designers have reconciled their desire for great design with the functional challenge of providing people a place to sit.
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Image: Gerald Summers English, 1899-1967 Armchair, c. 1934 Laminated birchwood The Modernism Collection, gift of Norwest Bank Minnesota
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