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Frederick Kiesler
Multi-use Chair, 1942
"The seats were a kind of wave which curved down, surged up, and fell once more, thus forming an object without beginning or end," said Kiesler of his Multi-use Chairs, "and in its convex curves the body could take ease." Kiesler designed these chairs -- constructed for seven dollars each in the Bronx -- to fill the unconventional spaces he created for Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of this Century Gallery on 57th Street. The Surrealist-inspired "rest-forms" were meant to be versatile; Kiesler delineated eighteen uses for them, including seating and stands for the display of objects. Their organic shape demonstrates Kiesler's experimentation with "continuous tension." |