The event features more than 125 pieces of furniture art designed by Atlanta-area artists, interior designers and architects using old chairs and other items that were donated. Bids will be placed on many of the items during a silent auction at Lenox Square Mall. In addition, top-quality pieces, including a Brentwood sofa by national designer Barbara Barry, will go to the highest bidder at a live auction and gala at Maggiano s Little Italy restaurant on April 29. Some of them are fairly subtle in the artistic sense, and some are a lot more funky. For the first time, the event also will feature tables and children s furniture, including a nursery set designed by Ruocco.
Participants select chairs from the furniture bank s warehouse and come up with a decorating theme.
They range from gaudy and grand to playful and practical. We combined every element of strange cars and cabs we ve been in. We just couldn t capture the bad taxi smells. Using two old chairs that were collecting dust in their garage, Holly made a collage for the back and seat of one of them out of receipts, invoices, canceled checks and office supplies. It s his least favorite thing.