What is a comfortable chair?
My step mother’s once-a-month dinner guest and good friend Marya Lilien, who worked for both Adolf Loos in Vienna and FL Wright in Wisconsin and Chicago, once told the story that when FL Wright wanted a comfortable chair, they shopped together for one at the 9th floor at Marshall Fields.
The chair I posted is a bit tongue and cheek. It’s a riff on Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Chair made from XPS rigid foam insulation. It’s not very comfortable but it satirizes the seemingly endless number of “artisic” and uncomfortable chairs out there. A comforable chair–Sorry, FL Wright!–fits your body much like this Mies 1927 sketch of a bentwood chair. What is a comfortable dining room chair? Our money is on Saarinen’s Executive Side Chair.
#MarshfieldFields #MillerKnoll #BarcelonaChair #Saarinen #executivesidechair
My step mother’s once-a-month dinner guest and good friend Marya Lilien, who worked for both Adolf Loos in Vienna and FL Wright in Wisconsin and Chicago, once told the story that when FL Wright wanted a comfortable chair, they shopped together for one at the 9th floor at Marshall Fields.
The chair I posted is a bit tongue and cheek. It’s a riff on Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Chair made from XPS rigid foam insulation. It’s not very comfortable but it satirizes the seemingly endless number of “artisic” and uncomfortable chairs out there. A comforable chair–Sorry, FL Wright!–fits your body much like this Mies 1927 sketch of a bentwood chair. What is a comfortable dining room chair? Our money is on Saarinen’s Executive Side Chair.
#MarshfieldFields #MillerKnoll #BarcelonaChair #Saarinen #executivesidechair